LEADER 03957nam 2200721 450 001 9910456749603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-29469-9 010 $a1-283-16878-2 010 $a9786613168788 010 $a0-262-29529-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039521 035 $a(OCoLC)741615276 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10483631 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000522030 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11336236 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522030 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10523627 035 $a(PQKB)11713013 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339262 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat06267527 035 $a(IDAMS)0b000064818b456f 035 $a(IEEE)6267527 035 $a(OCoLC)741615276$z(OCoLC)744520612$z(OCoLC)816849729$z(OCoLC)961511363$z(OCoLC)962577512$z(OCoLC)968283099$z(OCoLC)984522222$z(OCoLC)988449698$z(OCoLC)992000526$z(OCoLC)1037915647$z(OCoLC)1038643190$z(OCoLC)1045439194$z(OCoLC)1055364226$z(OCoLC)1064075113$z(OCoLC)1081284157 035 $a(OCoLC-P)741615276 035 $a(MaCbMITP)8073 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339262 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483631 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316878 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039521 100 $a20151223d2012 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDigital dead end $efighting for social justice in the information age /$fVirginia Eubanks 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cMIT Press,$dc2011. 210 2$a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :$cIEEE Xplore,$d[2012] 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-51813-9 311 $a0-262-01498-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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. 330 $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. 606 $aTechnology$xSociological aspects 606 $aTechnology$xSex differences 606 $aTechnology and women 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTechnology$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aTechnology$xSex differences. 615 0$aTechnology and women. 676 $a303.48/34082 700 $aEubanks$b Virginia$f1972-$0857520 801 0$bCaBNVSL 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456749603321 996 $aDigital dead end$91914758 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$66.25$u10/03/2018$5Soc