Technology as a Social and Political Phenomenon
Author | : Philip L. Bereano |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Philip L. Bereano |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Evgeny Morozov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1610391381 |
The award-winning author of The Net Delusion shows how the radical transparency we've become accustomed to online may threaten the spirit of real-life democracy
Author | : Samuel C. Woolley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 019093140X |
Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic tasks. Some social media bots collect and distribute legitimate information, while others communicate with and harass people, manipulate trending algorithms, and inundate systems with spam. Campaigns made up of bots, fake accounts, and trolls can be coordinated by one person, or a small group of people, to give the illusion of large-scale consensus. Some political regimes use political bots to silence opponents and to push official state messaging, to sway the vote during elections, and to defame critics, human rights defenders, civil society groups, and journalists. This book argues that such automation and platform manipulation, amounts to a new political communications mechanism that Samuel Woolley and Philip N. Noward call "computational propaganda." This differs from older styles of propaganda in that it uses algorithms, automation, and human curation to purposefully distribute misleading information over social media networks while it actively learns from and mimicks real people so as to manipulate public opinion across a diverse range of platforms and device networks. This book includes cases of computational propaganda from nine countries (both democratic and authoritarian) and four continents (North and South America, Europe, and Asia), covering propaganda efforts over a wide array of social media platforms and usage in different types of political processes (elections, referenda, and during political crises).
Author | : Corien Prins |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2017-09-29 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1785363964 |
Whether within or beyond the confines of the state, digitalization continues to transform politics, society and democracy. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have already considerably affected political systems and structures, and no doubt they will continue to do so in the future. Adopting an international and comparative perspective, Digital Democracy in a Globalized World examines the impact of digitialization on democratic political life. It offers theoretical analyses as well as case studies to help readers appreciate the changing nature of democracy in the digital age.
Author | : Nathaniel Persily |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2020-09-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108835554 |
A state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.
Author | : Wiebe E. Bijker |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780262521376 |
"The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakeable. The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book have been written by a diverse group of scholars united by a common interest in creating a new field - the sociology of technology. They draw on a wide array of case studies - from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15th-century Portugal to today's Al labs - to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies of science and the history of technology. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions"--Back cover.
Author | : Ralph Schroeder |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2018-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178735122X |
The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.
Author | : Langdon Winner |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2010-07-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0226902099 |
"The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time."—David Dickson, New York Times Book Review "The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the most pressing political issues of our day."—Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Isis
Author | : Karen Stenner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2005-07-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0521827434 |
What is the basis for intolerance? This book addresses that question by developing a universal theory about what causes intolerance of difference in general, which includes racism, political intolerance (e.g. restriction of free speech), moral intolerance (e.g. homophobia, supporting censorship, opposing abortion) and punitiveness. It demonstrates that all these seemingly disparate attitudes are principally caused by just two factors: individuals' innate psychological predispositions to intolerance ('authoritarianism') interacting with changing conditions of societal threat.