Libro Google me: One-Click Democracy (Meaning Systems) De Barbara Cassin

portada Google me: One-Click Democracy (Meaning Systems)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Fordham University Press

Autor

Barbara Cassin

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

172

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780823278060

N° edición

Categorías

Filosofía

Google me: One-Click Democracy (Meaning Systems)

Barbara Cassin (Autor) · Fordham University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Google me: One-Click Democracy (Meaning Systems)"

“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.