The Golem Legend and the Enigma of Facebook

We are easily misguided as to the true nature of Facebook, and tend to treat it simply as a powerful technological instrument in the service of human intentions. We can, however, gain a better picture of it through recourse to the Jewish tradition of the golem, an image of human beings, created by t...

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Main Author: Ambrus, Gábor L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: Zygon
Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Issue: 4, Pages: 875-897
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Golem, Fictitious character / Jewish literature / Facebook / Interpersonal relationship / Algorithmische Programmierung / Interaction
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BH Judaism
ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Control
B Creation
B Frankenstein
B Norbert Wiener
B Roger McNamee
B human and subhuman
B instrumentalist paradigm of technology
B Image
B God
B Cybernetics
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