Governments and law enforcement agencies in multiple countries have been stepping up their rhetoric against technology companies' use of end-to-end encryption in recent times — arguing it is unacceptable for a method of communication to exist that cannot be accessed by state agents in extremis.
The insidious evisceration of education through for-profit charters, voucher programs, anti-union rhetoric and meaningless uses of technology is very troubling.
"From early communist visions of technological progress, to Soviet space utopias, to the social democratic rhetoric of the 'white heat of technology', what set the left apart from the right was its unambiguous embrace of the future," they write, and sometimes I hum that to the tune of "This Land Is Your Land".
As Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams describe in their book Inventing the Future: "From early communist visions of technological progress, to Soviet space utopias, to the social democratic rhetoric of the 'white heat of technology', what set the left apart from the right was its unambiguous embrace of the future".
In a brilliantly conceived work, Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry.
Recent courses include, for example, magic, art, and science in Renaissance culture, political discourse and nationalism, culture and inequality, history of technology, and the rhetoric of new media.
My scholarship lies at the intersections of writing, rhetoric and technology issues; my specialized interests include African American rhetoric, community literacy, digital rhetorics and digital humanities.
Despite the upbeat rhetoric used by advocates of eHealtha, deployment of technology remains at a very early stage.
The paper highlights the specific role of symbolic aspects in the material development of technology, stressing a relation between rhetoric and material semiotics.
Like the chicken and the egg, how can we know whether the blame of June 14th falls on rhetoric, violence, technology, or other.
The research analyzes the big data phenomenon from a socio-technical systems theory perspective: cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomena that rest on the interplay of technology, analysis, and mythology provoking extensive utopian and dystopian rhetoric.
