Digital Infrastructures of Cognition, Culture, and Democracy
Politics of Disengagement and Artificial Ignorance
Vania Baldi(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2026
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-1-041-28591-5 (ISBN)
Description
Examining how artificial intelligence and cognitive automation reshape dispositions towards attention, learning, and public life, this book offers a critical framework to counter technocratic drift and to rethink agency and democratic responsibility in an increasingly automated world.
Digital Infrastructures of Cognition Culture and Democracy rethinks the role of human intelligence and responsibility in environments increasingly guided by automated systems, providing a critical understanding of how cognitive automation, data-driven platforms and algorithmic infrastructures - together with neoliberal regimes of evaluation - reshape engagement with knowledge and social relations. With case studies and discussions of emerging digital governance, this book offers new theoretical frameworks and socio-pedagogical strategies for reimagining digital ecosystems and equips readers with conceptual tools to recognise subtle forms of algorithmic power and to cultivate more conscious, reflective uses of digital technologies and the possibilities of algorithmic activism.
This book will appeal to all those in need of analytical tools to assess the societal impact of AI, from researchers and students in sociology, media studies, communication, anthropology, political theory, philosophy of technology, and education to professionals working in policymaking, digital governance and public administration.
Digital Infrastructures of Cognition Culture and Democracy rethinks the role of human intelligence and responsibility in environments increasingly guided by automated systems, providing a critical understanding of how cognitive automation, data-driven platforms and algorithmic infrastructures - together with neoliberal regimes of evaluation - reshape engagement with knowledge and social relations. With case studies and discussions of emerging digital governance, this book offers new theoretical frameworks and socio-pedagogical strategies for reimagining digital ecosystems and equips readers with conceptual tools to recognise subtle forms of algorithmic power and to cultivate more conscious, reflective uses of digital technologies and the possibilities of algorithmic activism.
This book will appeal to all those in need of analytical tools to assess the societal impact of AI, from researchers and students in sociology, media studies, communication, anthropology, political theory, philosophy of technology, and education to professionals working in policymaking, digital governance and public administration.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-28591-5 (9781041285915)
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Digital Infrastructures of Cognition, Culture, and Democracy
Politics of Disengagement and Artificial Ignorance
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Digital Infrastructures of Cognition, Culture, and Democracy
Politics of Disengagement and Artificial Ignorance
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Routledge
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Person
Vania Baldi is Professor of Sociology and of Cultural and Communication Processes in both Italy and Portugal. His work explores the intersections between media environments, digital infrastructures, political communication, ethics and the social anthropology of technology. With a transdisciplinary approach, he examines how artificial intelligence, platform capitalism, and data-driven systems reshape mind, epistemology, public life, education and democratic culture. He has taught and conducted research across multiple institutions and international programmes, contributing to debates on critical media theory, algorithmic governance, epistemological transformations and the socio-political implications of automated decision-making.
Content
Introduction: Digital Culture's Double Bind: Minds in the Loop amid Politicised Noise and Depoliticised Critique; 1. Between Flesh and Clouds: Interpassive Communication in the Age of Automated Mediation; 2. The Microphysics of Computational Power: Ethics and Critique in the Age of Artificial Ignorance; 3. Against Meritocratic Pedagogical Ideologies