Description
When it comes to technology, mainstream headlines are bleak: Algorithms control and oppress. AI will destroy democracy and our social fabric, and possibly even drive us to extinction.
While these concerns are legitimate, we need to equally account for the fact that technology affords young people something incredibly valuable: a rare space for self-actualization. In From Pessimism to Promise, award-winning author Payal Arora explains that outside the West, where most of the world's youth reside, there is a significantly different outlook on technology. In fact, there is a contagion of optimism for all things digital. Drawing on field insights in diverse global contexts such as Brazil, India and Bangladesh, Arora describes what drives Gen Z to embrace new technologies.
From Pessimism to Promise discusses the shift to relationally driven approaches to design; how to create 'algorithms of aspiration'; how to reimagine the digital space for sex, pleasure and care; and what we can learn from feminist digital activists and women's collectives in the Global South on shared digital provenance and value, as well as indigenous approaches to sustainability, which challenge sacred ideas on degrowth, and the circular economy. Arora also takes heart in the power of numbers, as users from the majority world infuse algorithms with everyday aspirations, pushing for a new digital order.
Timely and urgent, From Pessimism to Promise makes a deeply compelling case that it is not naive to be optimistic about our digital future. On the contrary, it is our moral imperative to design with hope.
Product details
- Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
- Language : English
- Paperback : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9369894330
- ISBN-13 : 9789369894338
- Item Weight : 190 g
- Dimensions : 21.5 x 14 x 1.3 cm
- Country of Origin : India
About the author
Payal Arora
Payal Arora was born in Bangalore, India, spent 16 years in the United States, mainly New York and San Francisco, before moving to the Netherlands. Her first book 'Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas' captured some fascinating and provocative internet practices in rural India. Her second book, 'The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0' on conceptualizing the internet today, won the EUR Fellowship Award in 2012. In 2010, she won the Best Paper award in Social Informatics by the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Over the years, she has researched and consulted for a number of diverse private and public sector organizations including The Kellogg Foundation, World Bank, Hewlett Packard, National Health Foundation, Shell, General Electric, The Ministry of Education in Jordan, Sotheby's, and the Beirut Chamber of Commerce. She has been invited to speak by numerous universities such as Cornell, Duke, Michigan State and the University of Utah. She earned her doctorate in Language, Literacy and Technology from Columbia University in New York City, a Masters in International Policy from Harvard University, and a Teaching Certificate from the University of Cambridge.
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