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Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism

Douglas Kellner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VII, 303 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-31789-8 (ISBN)

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As we enter a new millennium, it is clear that we are in the midst of one of the most dramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work, communicate, participate in politics, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on computer, information, communication, and multimedia technologies, is often interpreted as the beginnings of a knowledge or information society, and therefore ascribes technologies a central role in every aspect of life. This Great Transformation poses tremendous challenges to critical social theorists, citizens, and educators to rethink their basic tenets, to deploy the media in creative and productive ways, and to restructure the workplace, social institutions, and schooling to respond constructively and progressively to the technological and social changes that we are now experiencing.

Douglas Kellner works at the intersection of "third generation" critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, or Frankfurt School and in cultural studies in the tradition of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. He is currently the George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angels.

Introduction: Technology and the Demands of Democracy.- Digital Technologies and Alienation.- The Media, Democracy, and Spectacle.- Intellectuals, Citizens, and Digital Technologies in a New Era of Struggle.- Globalization, Technopolitics, and Revolution.- Virilio, War, and Technology.- Vicissitudes of High-Tech War.- Kubrick's 2001 and Visions of Techno-Dystopia.- Digital Technologies, Multi-Literacies, and Democracy: Toward a Reconstruction of Education.

"This book is a much needed and valuable addition to the literature on working towards a theory of technology and a provocative starting point for further theorisation." (Amy Hanna, Postdigital Science and Education, Vol. 5 (1), 2023)

“This book is a much needed and valuable addition to the literature on working towards a theory of technology and a provocative starting point for further theorisation.” (Amy Hanna, Postdigital Science and Education, Vol. 5 (1), 2023)

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	Medienkulturen im digitalen Zeitalter
Zusatzinfo	VII, 303 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	Alienation • Critical theory • Hypermodernism • Jean Baudrillard • Marshall McLuhan • Paul Virilio • Postmodernism • Postmodern War • Revolution • Technocapitalism • technological transformation • Technology • Technolopolitics • Theories of New Technologies
ISBN-10	3-658-31789-2 / 3658317892
ISBN-13	978-3-658-31789-8 / 9783658317898
Zustand	Neuware