Technology and in/equality : questioning the information society /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. |
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| Description: | xii, 242 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4372766 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- 1. Critical perspectives on technologies, in/equalities and the information society
- Part I. Promises and threats: access and control in media technologies
- 2. Access is not the only problem: using and controlling the Internet
- 3. Panaceas and promises of democratic participation: reactions to new channels, from the wireless to the World Wide Web
- 4. Public service broadcasting and new distribution technologies: issues of equality, access and choice in the transactional television environment
- 5. Limited Horizons (inc.): access, democracy and technology in community television in Canada
- Part II. Exclusion, inclusion and segregation: new technology and skill in education
- 6. A tale of two cultures? Gender and inequality in computer education
- 7. Tending to the tamagotchi: rhetoric and reality in the use of new technologies for distance learning
- Part III. Technology, inequality and economic development
- 8. Social inequality, technology and economic growth
- 9. Inequality, work and technology in the services sector
- 10. A dynamic perspective on technology, economic inequality and development
- Bibliography
- Index
