The Promise of Access, Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope
- Authors
- Daniel Greene
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Tags
- digital divide; neoliberalism; technology; poverty; inequality; hope; internet; access; skills gap; technology policy; economic policy; cities; labor; race; gender; political economy; ethnography; marxism; social reproduction; startups; schools; libraries; washington , dc; institutions; communications; organizational studies; science and technology studies; cultural studies; information studies; technology transfer.
- Size
- 0.68 MB
- Lang
- en
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 codeor 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.