Google Me - One-Click Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Cassin Klappentext "Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy." In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. Enlisting her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition, Cassin demolishes the Google myth of a "good" tech company and its "democracy of clicks," laying bare the philosophical poverty and political naiveté that underwrites its founding slogans: "Organize the world's information," and "Don't be evil." For Cassin, this conjunction of globalizing knowledge and moral imperative is frighteningly similar to the way American demagogues justify their own universalizing mission before the world.While sensitive to the possibilities of technology and to Google's playful appeal, Cassin shows what is lost when a narrow worship of information becomes dogma, such that research comes to mean data mining and other languages become provincial "flavors" folded into an impoverished Globish, or global English. Zusammenfassung A witty, philosophically-informed, and openly polemical critique by Barbara Cassin of Google that looks at Google’s claims to organize knowledge, and its alleged ethical basis. This critique goes to the heart of the assumed benefits to humanity of increasingly advanced internet technology.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Cassin, Barbara/ Syrotinski Cassin, Michael Syrotinski
• Assisted by: Michael Syrotinski (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780823278077
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7807-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Meaning Systems (Fup); Meaning Systems; Meaning Systems
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Philosophie, Medientheorie, Medienwissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Literaturtheorie, PHILOSOPHY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Politik / Politikwissenschaft, Politologie