Taming the Digital Behemoth: Rethinking the Digital - Human Divide
The article analyzes issues associated with digital challenge, ways to humanize technology and need to rethink the digital-human divide. Topics discussed include issues associated with uses and abuses of technology, commercial design of digital technologies that engenders compulsive behavior, and ho...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Institute for Interdisciplinary Research
[2020]
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Journal of interdisciplinary studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 1-16 |
IxTheo Classification: | ZA Social sciences ZB Sociology ZD Psychology |
Further subjects: | B
Digital humanities
B Compulsive behavior B Digital technology B Digital divide B Information Technology |
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Summary: | The article analyzes issues associated with digital challenge, ways to humanize technology and need to rethink the digital-human divide. Topics discussed include issues associated with uses and abuses of technology, commercial design of digital technologies that engenders compulsive behavior, and how digital technology can impair autonomy, hijack attention, rewire the brain, and diminish concentration, empathy, knowledge and wisdom of human being. |
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ISSN: | 2766-0508 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of interdisciplinary studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/jis2020321/21 |