Technology and In/equality : Questioning the Information Society

ISBN-13: 9780415230223 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 256 str.

Flis Henwood; Nod Miller; Peter Senker

Opis

This text explores the relationship between technology and inequality through social and cultural theory and case studies of the application of ICTs, in particular in media, education and training. It discusses the policy implications of this (presumed but arguable) inequality. The book tries to answer the following questions: why is it important to think about technology and inequality? what theoretical ideas can help us understand technology and inequality? what are the policy implications of the assumption that more technology/information is better?; and by encouraging pluralism do we avoid confronting fundamental inequalities in society?

Recenzje

This..is a book which clearly challenges the ideas behind the information society, and especially the technological myopia of those who argue that such a society exsists (or is imminient) - Stephen Lax, Education, Communication & Information

Spis treści

1. Critical Perspectives on Technologies, In/equalities and the Information Society Flis Henwood, Sally WYatt, Nod Miller and Peter Senker Part I. Promises and Threats: Access and Control in Media Technologies 2. Access is Not The Only Problem: Using and Controlling the Internet, Graham Thomas and Sally Wyatt 3. Panaceas and Promises of Democratic Participation: Reactions to New Channels, From the Wireless to the World Wide Web, Rod Allen and Nod Miller 4. Public Service Broadcasting and New Distribution Technologies: Issues of Equality, Access and Choice in the Transactional Television Environment, Kathy Walker 5. Limited Horizons (inc.): Access, Democracy and Technology in Community Television in Canada, Herbert F. Pimlott Part II. Exclusion, Inclusion and Segregation: New Technology and Skill in Education 6. A Tale of Two Cultures? Gender and Inequality in Computer Education, Flis Henwood, Sarah Plumeridge and Linda Stepulevage 7. Tending to the Tamagotchi: Rhetoric and Reality in the New Technologies for Distance Learning Nod Miller, Helen Kennedy and Linda Leung Part III. Technology, Inequality and Economic Development 8.Socially Inequality, Technology and Economic Growth, Chris Freeman 9. Inequality, Work and Technology in the Services Sector,Gavin Poynter and Alvaro de Miranda 10. A Dynamic Perspective on Technology, Economic Inequality and Development, Peter Senker

O autorze

Flis Henwood, Nod Miller, Peter Senker, Sally Wyatt