The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political power of the elites controlling and interpreting the data; (2) it is based on the deep assumptions of market liberalism that do not recognize environmental limits; (3) it undermines face-to-face and context-specific forms of knowledge; (4) it undermines awareness of the metaphorical nature of language; (5) its promoters are driven by the myth of progress and thus ignore important cultural traditions of the cultural commons that are being lost; and (6) it both by-passes the democratic process and colonizes other cultures. This book provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena and connects them to questions of educational reform in the US and beyond.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Computer Globalization 2. The Cult of Data 3. Misconceptions About Language 4. Digital Colonization 5. The Digital Revolution in Muslim Cultures 6. A Different Kind of Connectivity 7. Localism, the Revitalization of the Cultural Commons, and Face to Face Democracy
