TY  - BOOK
AU  - Filimowicz,Michael
TI  - Digital totalitarianism: algorithms and society 
T2  - Algorithms and society
SN  - 9781032002415
AV  - HM851 .D545227 2022
U1  - 302.231 23/eng/20211230
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Internet
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Privacy, Right of
KW  - Intellectual freedom
KW  - Conspiracy theories
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Digital Totalitarianism: Algorithms and Society focuses on important challenges to democratic values posed by our computational regimes: policing the freedom of inquiry, risks to the personal autonomy of thought, NeoLiberal management of human creativity and the collapse of critical thinking with the social media fueled rise of conspiranoia. Digital networks allow for a granularity and pervasiveness of surveillance by government and corporate entities. This creates power asymmetries where each citizen's daily 'data exhaust' can be used for manipulative and controlling ends by powerful institutional actors. This volume explores key erosions in our fundamental human values associated with free societies by covering government surveillance of library-based activities, cognitive enhancement debates, the increasing business orientation of art schools, and the proliferation of conspiracy theories in network media. Scholars and students from many backgrounds, as well as policy makers, journalists and the general reading public will find a multidisciplinary approach to questions of privacy and encryption encompassing research from Communication, Rhetoric, Library Sciences, Art and New Media"--
ER  -