Digital Dead End Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age

Name: Digital Dead End Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
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ISBN: 9780262518130

ISBN-10: 0262518139

ISBN-13: 9780262518130

Edition: 2011

Authors: Virginia Eubanks

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The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access, high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital Dead End, Virginia Eubanks argues that to believe this is to engage in a kind of magical thinking: a technological utopia will come about simply because we want it to. This vision of the miraculous power of high-tech development is driven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender. The realities of the information age are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-class…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Author's Note


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Four Beginnings



The Real World of Information Technology



Trapped in the Digital Divide



Drowning in the Sink-or-Swim Economy



Technologies of Citizenship



Popular Technology



Cognitive Justice and Critical Technological Citizenship


Conclusion: A High-Tech Equity Agenda



Research Methodology



WYMSM Sample Agendas



Popular Technology Sample Exercises



Popular Technology Projects Undertaken at the YWCA of Troy-Cohoes


Notes


References


Index