The Army of the Blind Kings - Digital Illiteracy and the Looming Amnesia of the Walled Gardens
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Authors
- Peter Siegfried Krug
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22827411
- Primary Topic
- Digital Media and Philosophy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00