The authors risk being labelled as Luddites in challenging the "computer literacy" programmes devised largely by the government and directed at education in a bid to equip the young for the future and rescue the economy from recession. The text critically examines the substance of claims that the educational system has an anti-business bias and that computer literacy is the panacea for Britain's economic problems. The relationship that has developed between education, industry and technology is explored; attention is drawn to the political obsessions and illusions that lie behind this new orthodoxy and the possible alternatives are discussed.

The Technical Fix: Education, Computers and Industry

Education & Teaching

Webster, Frank

Robins, Kevin

Schools & Teaching

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Technical Fix

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Palgrave HE UK

Transnationalism, Migration and the Challenge to Europe: The Enlargement of Meaning

Aksoy, Asu

Social Sciences

Routledge

We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities.

Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries (International Library of Sociology)

Morley, David

Computers & Technology

We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities.

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life (Comedia)

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century. The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging in contemporary debates surrounding the internet, Robins and Webster question whether it can really offer us a new world of virtual communities, and suggest more radical alternatives to the corporate agenda of contemporary technologies.

Arts & Photography

This book explores the debates surrounding technological change, from the politics of education to questions of identity centred around the figure of the cyborg.

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The Technical Fix: Education, Computers and Industry

The Technical Fix

The Technical Fix: Education, Computers and Industry

Transnationalism, Migration and the Challenge to Europe: The Enlargement of Meaning

Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries (International Library of Sociology)

Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries (International Library of Sociology)

Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision

Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision

Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life (Comedia)

Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life (Comedia)