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020			_z026201498X _qhardcover : alk. paper
020			_z0262295296 _qelectronic
035			_a(CaBNVSL)mat06267527
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040			_aCaBNVSL _beng _erda _cCaBNVSL _dCaBNVSL
050		4	_aHM846 _b.E93 2011eb
082	0	4	_a303.48/34082 _222
100	1		_aEubanks, Virginia, _d1972- _923283
245	1	0	_aDigital dead end : _bfighting for social justice in the information age / _cVirginia Eubanks.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bMIT Press, _cc2011.
264		2	_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2012]
300			_a1 PDF (xxi, 266 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aelectronic _2isbdmedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aFour 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.
506	1		_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520			_aThe 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. For them, information technology can be both a tool of liberation and a means of oppression.But despite the inequities of the high-tech global economy, optimism and innovation flourished when Eubanks worked with a community of resourceful women living at her local YWCA. Eubanks describes a new approach to creating a broadly inclusive and empowering "technology for people," popular technology, which entails shifting the focus from teaching technical skill to nurturing critical technological citizenship, building resources for learning, and fostering social movement.
530			_aAlso available in print.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web
588			_aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
650		0	_aTechnology and women. _923284
650		0	_aTechnology _xSex differences. _923285
650		0	_aTechnology _xSociological aspects. _923286
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93294
710	2		_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _923287
710	2		_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _923288
776	0	8	_iPrint version _z9780262014984
856	4	2	_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267527
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