Digital dead end [electronic resource] : fighting for social justice in the information age / Virginia Eubanks.
Eubanks, Virginia, 1972-
2011
HM846 .E93 2011eb
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Title Digital dead end [electronic resource] : fighting for social justice in the information age / Virginia Eubanks.
Author Eubanks, Virginia, 1972-
ISBN 9780262295291 (electronic bk.)
026201498X
9780262014984
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 266 p.) : ill.
Call Number HM846 .E93 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.48/34082
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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