TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Digital dead endfighting for social justice in the information age /
DA  - c2011.
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
AU  - Eubanks, Virginia,
CN  - Proquest Ebook Central
CN  - HM846
PB  - MIT Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - c2011.
ID  - 438511
KW  - Technology
KW  - Technology
KW  - Technology and women.
SN  - 9780262295291 (electronic bk.)
TI  - Digital dead endfighting for social justice in the information age /
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