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The Promise of Access

Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope

Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope

By Daniel Greene

By Daniel Greene

By Daniel Greene

By Daniel Greene

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Category: Politics | Technology

Category: Politics | Technology

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    About The Promise of Access

    Why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better.

    Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code–or else? In The Promise of Access, Daniel Greene argues that the problem of poverty became a problem of technology in order to manage the contradictions of a changing economy. Greene shows how the digital divide emerged as a policy problem and why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better.

    About The Promise of Access

    Why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better.

    Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code–or else? In The Promise of Access, Daniel Greene argues that the problem of poverty became a problem of technology in order to manage the contradictions of a changing economy. Greene shows how the digital divide emerged as a policy problem and why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better.

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    Category: Politics | Technology

    Paperback | $30.00
    Published by The MIT Press
    Apr 06, 2021 | 272 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780262542333

    Category: Politics | Technology

    Ebook | $22.99
    Published by The MIT Press
    Apr 06, 2021 | 272 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780262363358

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    Table Of Contents

    Acknowledgements
    Introduction: “The Internet: Your Future Depends on It”
    1 Discovering the Divide: Technology and Poverty in the New Economy
    2 The Pivot and the Trouble with ‘Tech’
    3 “More than Just a Building to Sit In For the Day”
    4 Flexible Classrooms
    5 Bootstrapping
    Conclusion: Reproducing Hope
    References
    Index

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