The need to rename tech /

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 co...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chokshi, Crystal (Editor), Mansell, Robin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2026]
Series:Literature, Cultural and Media Studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.