Description
This book is about words that fool us into thinking that the digital technologies we use every day are beautiful, benign, and consequence-free. The collection shows how metaphors used by Big Tech to promote digital technologies are reductive or misleading. With a commitment to social justice, the contributors rename digital technologies in order to subvert Big Tech s branding. Each chapter discusses a specific technology, rechristening it in a way that points explicitly to the social and political harms it is associated with. The alternative vocabularies that are proposed draw attention to what these technologies bring about, providing a means of resisting Silicon Valley s claims about what people and organisations should buy and experience.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Predicting.- Chapter 2: Ableist Technology.- Chapter 3: AIEEE!.- Chapter 4: HealthcAIre.- Part 2:Optimising.- Chapter 5:Spectrumscape.- Chapter 6:Technosolutionist Urbanism.- Part 3:Predicting.- Chapter 7:Watching the Well Run Dry: Digital Settler Colonialism.- Part 4:Predicting.- Chapter 8:Automated Predeterminations.-Chapter 9: Fabulation.- Chapter 10: Hypothetical Images.- Part 5: Saving.- Chapter 11: Access Gatekeeper.- Chapter 12: Altman s Golem.- Chapter 13: Servants of Capitalism.- Chapter 14: Servants of Capitalism.- Chapter 15: Parts & Labours.- Chapter 16 : Xtreme Streaming.- Chapter 17: Conclusion.
Robin Mansell (FAcSS, FBA) is Professor Emerita, London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Fribourg and is recipient of the
