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Digital Technologies and Social Transformations: What Role for Critical Theory?

机译:数字技术与社会变革:批判理论的作用是什么?

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Your computer will restart in 10 minutes. The current version of this application requires a newer version of the operating system. Destination folder access denied-you do not have sufficient permission to perform this operation. For content covered by intellectual property rights, you specifically grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on your account. Every day, the digital technologies that some of us have come to rely upon to stay in touch with friends and family, entertain ourselves, or perform our work exercise countless, oftentimes invisible, forms of control upon us. Such technologies often appear to us as not only inevitable, but intrinsically beneficial in both big and small ways. In recent years, we have heard claims of the "Maple Spring," Twitter and Facebook revolutions; and a visiting colleague confessed, "Without my smartphone's GPS function, I would never dare leave my hotel room." This understanding of technology as significantly enhancing our ability to act in the world occupies, to a great extent, our social imaginary of computers, smartphones, and digital networks. Echoing the early hacking ethos (Levy, 1994), such social imaginaries paint digital technologies as democratic tools, with their potential to empower ordinary people as paramount The feeling that all of the information in the world is at our fingertips, freely and universally available, is, as many of us know from our experiences of teaching, reproduced on a daily basis by countless undergraduates.
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