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de-emphasising individuality. Similarly, Keen and Carr write that there is a dangerous mob mentality that dominates the internet; since, rather than creating more democracy, the internet is empowering the rule of the mob. Instead of achieving social equality or utopianism, the internet has created a "selfie-centered" culture of voyeurism and
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tell society as a whole could sacrifice our humanity to the cult of cyber-utopianism. In particular, Lanier describes it as "an apocalypse of self-abdication" and that "consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence"; warning that by emphasising the majority or crowd, we are
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narratives of technologies influencing social, economic, and political structures, and its diverse set of components includes virtual reality, artificial intelligence, ubiquitous connectivity, ubiquitous surveillance, and social networks. In popular culture,
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In August 2007, David Nye presented the idea of cyber-dystopia, which envisions a world made worse by technological advancements. Cyber-dystopian principles focus on the individual losing control, becoming dependent and being unable to stop change.
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often are about or depict mass loss of privacy due to technological innovation and social control. They feature heightened socio-political issues like social fragmentation, intensified consumerism, dehumanization, and mass human migrations.
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with crime, cyber-sex prostitution and general civic chaos. Digital experimentation of the elements of cyberspace became extremely invasive and took on the appearance of anarchy in Alphaville.
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Nancy Baym shows a cyber-dystopia negatively effect of a cyber-dystopia in social interactions as it says new media will take people away from their intimate relationships, as they
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based in the city of Alphaville had become a digital dystopia controlled by "president" Donald Meacham and corrupt faction of robot nobles had become a
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refers to an alternate future or present in which digitized technologies or algorithms have caused major societal disruption. It refers to
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One of the earliest mentions is on 2004 when an academic and blogger was expelled for commenting on how the
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mediated relationships or even media use itself for face to face engagement".
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In 1998, "digital dystopia" was used to describe negative effects of
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on society. "Cyber-dystopia" was coined in 1998 in connection with
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Index


Smart city
Lapa, Rio de Janeiro
dystopian
technological dystopias
multichannel television
cyber-punk
Sims Online Computer game
Andrew Keen
Jaron Lanier
Nicholas Carr
narcissism
The Guardian
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Cyberpunk
Digital sublime
"Digital Dystopia"
"Digital Dystopia"
"If you want to know how we ended up in a cyber dystopia, read Ready Player One"
"The Epistemic and Performative Dynamics of Machine Learning Praxis"
doi
10.1086/708249
ISSN
2326-4489
"Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor"
ISSN
0261-3077
"New media: Digital dystopia"
doi

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