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Technology and Democracy: Toward a Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism (Kellner, 2021)

Douglas Kellner's 2021 Springer VS book (series Medienkulturen im digitalen Zeitalter) builds a Frankfurt School critical theory of digital technologies, linking technocapitalism and technopolitics to democracy, media spectacle, social movements and multiple literacies in education.

Buku Douglas Kellner 2021 (Springer VS, seri Medienkulturen im digitalen Zeitalter) yang menyusun teori kritis Mazhab Frankfurt tentang teknologi digital, mengaitkan teknokapitalisme dan teknopolitik dengan demokrasi, tontonan media, gerakan sosial dan literasi majemuk dalam pendidikan.

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theory and method pedagogy propaganda and media

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Date: 2021
Creator: Douglas Kellner
Publication: Springer VS
Document type: book (monograph (critical theory))
Language: English
Perspective: Scholarship
Source role: secondary
Country: Germany
Period: 1999–present
Access: Copyrighted publication; personal research copy. Copyrighted: share the file only with invited researchers on Drive.
Citation (APA): Kellner, D. (2021). Technology and democracy: Toward a critical theory of digital technologies, technopolitics, and technocapitalism. Springer VS.
File: 03 Theory and Transnational Feminisms/Technopolitics and Technofeminism/Kellner (2021) - Technology and Democracy, Toward a Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism.pdf
OCR / text: Good (PDF text layer) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection: 03 Theory and Transnational Feminisms › Technopolitics and Technofeminism
Summary basis: front matter, contents and introduction

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