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Podcast: New Books in Technology
Episode: Orit Kamir, "Betraying Dignity" (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2019)
Description: What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common?Betraying Dignity: The Toxic Seduction of Social Media, Shaming, and Radicalization (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press) argues that in the second decade of the twenty-first century, individuals, political parties and nations around the world are abandoning the dignity-based culture we established in the aftermath of two world wars, less than a century ago.Disappointed or intimidated, many turn their backs on the humanitarian, universalistic culture that presumes our inherent human dignity and celebrates it as the basis of every individual's equal human rights. Instead...