Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society

by Henwood,Flis

• ISBN13: 9780415230230
• ISBN10: 0415230233
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134582013
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-01-22
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	x
List of contributors	xi
Critical perspectives on technologies, in/equalities and the information society	1	(18)
Flis Henwood
Sally Wyatt
Nod Miller
Peter Senker
PART I Promises and threats: access and control in media technologies	19	(90)
Access is not the only problem: using and controlling the Internet	21	(25)
Graham Thomas
Sally Wyatt
Panaceas and promises of democratic participation: reactions to new channels, from the wireless to the World Wide Web	46	(15)
Rod Allen
Nod Miller
Public service broadcasting and new distribution technologies: issues of equality, access and choice in the transactional television environment	61	(25)
Kathy Walker
Limited Horizons (inc.): access, democracy and technology in community television in Canada	86	(23)
Herbert F. Pimlott
PART II Exclusion, inclusion and segregation: new technology and skill in education	109	(38)
A tale of two cultures? Gender and inequality in computer education	111	(18)
Flis Henwood
Sarah Plumeridge
Linda Stepulevage
Tending to the tamagotchi: rhetoric and reality in the use of new technologies for distance learning	129	(18)
Nod Miller
Helen Kennedy
Linda Leung
PART III Technology, inequality and economic development	147	(72)
Social inequality, technology and economic growth	149	(23)
Chris Freeman
Inequality, work and technology in the services sector	172	(25)
Gavin Poynter
Alvaro De Miranda
A dynamic perspective on technology, economic inequality and development	197	(22)
Peter Senker
Bibliography	219	(16)
Index	235