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OverviewThe notion of technological power is fast becoming an object of both academic and policy discourses. Within such discourses one can observe several different senses of power being employed, especially when viewed from a multi-disciplinary angle. This demonstrates the need for the creation of a cross-disciplinary and integrative framework for identifying and clarifying different conceptions of the relations between technology and power. In this respect, the book aims to offer an empirically-informed philosophical framework for understanding the technological construction of power, which allows for a differentiated vocabulary for describing various senses of technological power, while bridging together social and political theory, critical studies of technology, philosophy and ethics of technology. In addition, the framework presented in this book aims to contribute to better critical and ethical evaluation of technologies and their powers. Any adequate ethics or critique of technology must be based on a better, clearer, and more nuanced and differentiated understanding of the many ways in which technology can be described as 'powerful'. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Faridun Sattarov, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of TwentePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield International Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.80cm Weight: 0.313kg ISBN: 9781786611307ISBN 10: 1786611309 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 06 August 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Four Views of Power Chapter 2: Episodic Power and Technology Chapter 3: Dispositional Power and Technology Chapter 4: Systemic Power and Technology Chapter 5: Constitutive Power and Technology Chapter 6: Power in the Ethics of Algorithms Chapter 7: Power and Ethics: Conceptual Connections Chapter 8: Power and Ethics: Practical Implications ConclusionReviewsIn this thoughtful and intelligent book, Sattarov develops a comprehensive framework for understanding the relationship between power and algorithms. The nuanced approach to power taken here allows for an understanding of many relationships between power and algorithms rather than a simple, essentialist view of algorithmic power. This approach offers an invaluable contribution to understanding power in our algorithm-infused world. -- Leighton Evans, Undergraduate Programme Director, Media Studies, Swansea University Sattorov's empirically grounded inter-disciplinary work sheds much needed light on the dynamics of power and provides us with the tools that will enable us to better grapple with the illusions of democratization and empowerment that often surround discourses on new technologies, innovation and intelligent machines. The distinctions he provides and the narratives he weaves into his thesis will provide a solid foundation for much needed research on the hidden resistances of power and the dangers of uncritically embracing technological solutionism. -- Joseph Savirimuthu, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool Author InformationDr. Faridun Sattarov received his PhD in philosophy of technology from the University of Twente. He has been a research fellow at the UNESCO Bioethics and Ethics of Science Section, University of Liverpool School of Law, Technological University of Eindhoven and University of Twente. He is an affiliate member of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics of Technology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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