Book ID: CBB159272535

Your Computer Is on Fire (2021)

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Mullaney, Thomas Shawn (Editor)
Peters, Benjamin (Editor)
Hicks, Marie (Editor)
Philip, Kavita S. (Editor)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 416
Language: English

This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley–led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the inequality, marginalization, and biases in our technological systems, showing how they are not just minor bugs to be patched, but part and parcel of ideas that assume technology can fix—and control—society. The essays in Your Computer Is on Fire interrogate how our human and computational infrastructures overlap, showing why technologies that centralize power tend to weaken democracy. These practices are often kept out of sight until it is too late to question the costs of how they shape society. From energy-hungry server farms to racist and sexist algorithms, the digital is always IRL, with everything that happens algorithmically or online influencing our offline lives as well. Each essay proposes paths for action to understand and solve technological problems that are often ignored or misunderstood.

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Review Ksenia Tatarchenko (July 2022) Review of "Your Computer Is on Fire". Technology and Culture (pp. 923-925). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Luis Humberto Fabila-Castillo
Stephen Secules
Jessa Lingel
Hillman, Gracia
Isabel Pla-Julián
Wiltshire, Alex
Concepts
Computers and computing
Technology and society
Gender
Technology and politics
Equality
Cyberinfrastructure
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Spain
France
Mexico
India
Great Britain
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