Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal (1) (Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media)

By: null DISCO Network

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Synopsis: From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. This is a book about possibility and refusal in relation to new technologies. Though refusal is an especially powerful mode—particularly for those who have historically not been given the option to say no—people of color and disabled people have long navigated the space between saying yes and saying no to the newest technologies. Technoskepticism relates some of these stories to reveal the possibilities skepticism can create. The case for technoskepticism unfolds across three sections: the first focused on disability, the creative use of wellness apps, and the desire for diagnosis; the second on digital nostalgia and home for Black and Asian users who produced communities online before home pages gave way to profiles; and the third focused on the violence inherent in A.I.-generated Black bodies and the possibilities for Black style in the age of A.I. Acknowledging how the urge to refuse new technologies emerges from specific racialized histories, the authors also emphasize how care can look like an exuberant embrace of the new.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 240 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781503641365
Related ISBNs:: 9781503640634
Publisher:: Stanford University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/11/25
Copyrighted By:: the DISCO Network. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.