Technology and (Dis) empowerment : a call to technologists / Aaditeshwar Seth.
Material type: TextAbingdon : Emerald Publishing, 2022Description: x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781803823942
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The complex relationship between technology and social outcomes is well known and has recently seen significant attention due to the deepening of technology use in many domains. This includes issues such as the reproduction of inequality due to the digital divide, threats to democracy due to misinformation propagated through social networking platforms, algorithmic biases that can perpetuate structural injustices, hardships caused to citizens due to misplaced assumptions about the gains expected from the use of information technology in government processes, and simplistic beliefs that technology can easily lead to social development. This timely work draws attention to the varying factors by which technology often leads to disempowerment effects
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