By Chet A Bowers
The electronic revolution is altering the area in ecologically unsustainable methods: (1) it raises the commercial and political strength of the elites controlling and analyzing the knowledge; (2) it's in keeping with the deep assumptions of marketplace liberalism that don't realize environmental limits; (3) it undermines face-to-face and context-specific types of wisdom; (4) it undermines expertise of the metaphorical nature of language; (5) its promoters are pushed by means of the parable of growth and therefore forget about very important cultural traditions of the cultural commons which are being misplaced; and (6) it either by-passes the democratic approach ?and colonizes different cultures. This e-book offers an in-depth exam of those phenomena and connects them to questions of academic reform within the US and past.
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