Digital dead end [electronic resource] : fighting for social justice in the information age / Virginia Eubanks.

9780262295291 (electronic bk.)
026201498X
9780262014984

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

English

1 online resource (xxi, 266 p.) : ill.

HM846 .E93 2011eb

303.48/34082

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 women and families.-publisher description.

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