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Your Computer Is on Fire by Thomas S. Mullaney

Your Computer Is on Fire

Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks

MIT Press · Paperback · March 9, 2021

Technology scholars declare an emergency: attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.

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MIT Press, March 9, 2021

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Technology scholars declare an emergency: attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems. This book sounds an alarm: we can no longer afford to be lulled into complacency by narratives of techno-utopianism, or even techno-neutrality. We should not be reassured by such soothing generalities as "human error," "virtual reality," or "the cloud."

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We need to realize that nothing is virtual: everything that "happens online," "virtually," or "autonomously" happens offline first, and often involves human beings whose labor is deliberately kept invisible. Everything is IRL. In Your Computer Is on Fire, technology scholars train a spotlight on the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.

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  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • History of Computing
  • History of Technology
Authors
Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks
Publisher
MIT Press
Published
March 9, 2021
Format
Paperback
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Human-Computer Interaction