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Deleting Dystopia Re-Asserting Human Priorities in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism / Richard Slaughter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slaughter, Richard A., author.
- Series:
- Open textbook library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer science--Textbooks.
- Computer science.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Distribution:
- Minneapolis, MN Open Textbook Library.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] University of Southern Queensland [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Deleting Dystopia confirms that the existential threats posted by the misuse of advanced digital technologies are real. But, in place of apathy and fatalism, Slaughter explores ways of understanding the threat, conceptualising solutions and identifying strategies that lead away from digital authoritarian futures towards those funded on humanly viable values and practices.
- Contents:
- I. Starting points and emerging issues
- II. Case studies and implications
- III. Framing solutions
- IV. Humanising and democratising the IT revolution
- V. The IT revolution reassessed
- VI. Witnesses to the revolution
- VII. Resistance and renewal
- Notes:
- Description based on print resource
- ISBN:
- 9780648769873
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