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Deleting Dystopia : re-asserting human priorities in the age of surveillance capitalism / Richard A. Slaughter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slaughter, Richard A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electronic surveillance.
- Electronic surveillance--Australia.
- Human-computer interaction.
- Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Consumer behavior--Data processing.
- Consumer behavior.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Consumer profiling--Data processing.
- Consumer profiling.
- Computer science--Textbooks.
- Computer science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 114 pages) : colour illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Toowoomba : University of Southern Queensland, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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:
- Part I. Starting points and emerging issues.
- Starting points and emerging issues.
- Part II. Case studies and implications.
- The Internet of Things
- Farewell to driving?
- What drives Silicon Valley?
- Part III. Framing solutions.
- Compulsive innovation
- Blind spots as opportunities
- Transcending reductionism, re-purposing the Internet
- Productive innovation
- Part IV. Humanising and democratising the IT revolution.
- Humanising and democratising the IT revolution
- Part V. The IT revolution reassessed.
- The IT revolution reassessed
- Part VI. Witnesses to the revolution.
- Witnesses to the revolution
- Part VII. Resistance and renewal.
- Resistance and renewal
- Conclusion
- The language of Shoshana Zuboff.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print resource.
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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