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The Need to Rename Tech

The Need to Rename Tech

Mansell, Robin
Chokshi, Crystal

Hardcover

MarketingGeneral SociologyGraphic Design

ISBN10: 3032051541
ISBN13: 9783032051547
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 21 2026
Pages: 307
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book is about words that fool us into thinking that the digital technologies we use every day are beautiful, benign, and consequence-free. The collection shows how metaphors used by Big Tech to promote digital technologies are reductive or misleading. With a commitment to social justice, the contributors rename digital technologies in order to subvert Big Tech's branding. Each chapter discusses a specific technology, rechristening it in a way that points explicitly to the social and political harms it is associated with. The alternative vocabularies that are proposed draw attention to what these technologies bring about, providing a means of resisting Silicon Valley's claims about what people and organisations should buy and experience.

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