The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope

The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope image
ISBN-10:

0262542331

ISBN-13:

9780262542333

Author(s): GREENE, DANIEL
Released: Apr 06, 2021
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
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Description:

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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