Daniel Greene

The Promise of Access (eBook, ePUB)

Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better. Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code--or else? In The Promise of Access, Daniel Greene argues that the problem of poverty became a problem of technology in order to manage the contradictions of a changing economy. Greene shows how the digital divide emerged as a policy problem and why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262363358
• Artikelnr.: 59818076

Autorenporträt

Daniel Greene is Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland's iSchool.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: "The Internet: Your Future Depends on It"
1 Discovering the Divide: Technology and Poverty in the New Economy
2 The Pivot and the Trouble with 'Tech'
3 "More than Just a Building to Sit In For the Day"
4 Flexible Classrooms
5 Bootstrapping
Conclusion: Reproducing Hope
References
Index