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The Social, Cultural and Environmental Costs of Hyper-Connectivity
BY
MIKE HYNES
National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
United Kingdom North America Japan India Malaysia China
Emerald Publishing Limited
Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1WA, UK
First edition 2021
Copyright Mike Hynes 2021. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this work (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-979-3 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-83909-976-2 (Online)
ISBN: 978-1-83909-978-6 (Epub)
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For Nora and Larry.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Our New Digital Age
Big Brother Knows Exactly Who You Are!
Understanding Technology: Who Designs the Future?
Understanding the Digital Age
Coming in the Following Chapters?
Chapter 2 The Digital Behemoths
The Big Four
Amazon
Apple
So, Whats the Problem?
Digital Age Sloganism
Chapter 3 Towards Cultural Homogenisation
Is There Digital Diversity?
The Rise of European Culture
The United States and Big Tech Takes the Reigns
What Digital Wants Digital Gets
Towards Musical Homogenisation
Chapter 4 The Challenges to Our Innate Cognitive Abilities and Mental Well-being
The Human Costs of Digital Technologies?
Changing Minds?
Humans: The Weakest Link?
Surrendering to the Machine
Precarious Work
A Just Transition
Chapter 5 The Smartphone: A Weapon of Mass Distraction
Our New Digital Appendage
A Brief History of the Mobile Phones
Attraction and Distraction
Addiction as a Design Feature
The Human Cost of Our Smartphones
Chapter 6 Online Privacy and Surveillance
The House Is Watching, and Listening
Privacy in the Digital Age
Privacy Matters
Ground Zero for the Digital Surveillance
Digital Surveillance States
The Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Who Protects Our Privacy?
Chapter 7 Digital Divides
Mind the Gap
The Digital Haves and Have-Nots
The Digital Gender and Race Divides
Big Techs Role in Economic Inequality
The Need for Inclusivity
Chapter 8 An Increasing Ecological Threat
The Ecological Fallacy of Digitalisation
The Ecological Reality: (Over)Consumption and Mounting Waste
The Insatiable Energy Demands of the Digital Age
Big Techs Clandestine Role in Intensifying Climate Breakdown
Digital Technology Alone Cannot Save Us?
Chapter 9 Digital Democracy: The Winners and Losers
The Digital Promise of Democracy
Watching Freedom Fail
Weaponising the Internet against Liberty
A Free and Open Press
Distrust, Disinformation and Discontent
The Retreat from Reality
Back to Reality: Enter the Showman
The Wizards Behind the Curtain
Chapter 10 Retaking the Reins
Make Digital Get Again
Doing Nothing Is Not an Option
Epilogue
Index
AI | Artificial Intelligence |
AIGS | Artificial Intelligence Global Surveillance |
ARPANET | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
AWS | Amazon Web Services |
BRI | Chinas Belt and Road Initiative |
CDMA | Code-Division Multiple Access |
CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
CERN | European Organisation for Nuclear Research |
DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
DRC | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
EEA | European Economic Area |
EEE | Electrical and Electronic Equipment |
EU | European Union |
FCC | Federal Communications Commission |
FTC | Federal Trade Commission |
GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
GPRS | General Packet Radio Service |
GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
GSM | Global System for Mobile Communications |
http | hypertext transfer protocol |
ICT | Information Communication Technology |
IoT | Internet of Things |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IPO | Initial Public Offering |
IRS | Internal Revenue Service |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MOSFET | Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor |
NMT | Nordic Mobile Telephony |
NTT | The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation |
PDA | Personal Device Assistant |
Portable Document Format | |
R&D | Research and Development |
REM | Rapid Eye Movement |
SST | Social Studies of Technology |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
WHO | World Health Organization |
WWW | World Wide Web |
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