Your Computer Is on Fire by Thomas S Mullaney

Your Computer Is on Fire by Thomas S Mullaney

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." 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.

Thomas S. Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University and the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China.

Benjamin Peters is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

Mar Hicks is Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Kavita Philip studies colonialism, neoliberalism, and technoscience using history and critical theory. She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine.

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ISBN 13	9780262539739
ISBN 10	026253973X
Title	Your Computer Is on Fire
Author	Thomas S Mullaney
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2021-03-09
Number of pages	376
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