{"product_id":"digital-dead-end-fighting-for-social-justice-in-the-information-age","title":"Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDigital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eVirginia Eubanks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780262518130\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe MIT Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e266\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe realities of the high-tech global economy for women and families in the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access, high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In\u003ci\u003e Digital Dead End\u003c\/i\u003e, Virginia Eubanks argues that to believe this is to engage in a kind of magical thinking: a technological utopia will come about simply because we want it to. This vision of the miraculous power of high-tech development is driven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender. The realities of the information age are more complicated, particularly for poor and working-class women and families. For them, information technology can be both a tool of liberation and a means of oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut despite the inequities of the high-tech global economy, optimism and innovation flourished when Eubanks worked with a community of resourceful women living at her local YWCA. Eubanks describes a new approach to creating a broadly inclusive and empowering \"technology for people,\" \u003ci\u003epopular technology\u003c\/i\u003e, which entails shifting the focus from teaching technical skill to nurturing critical technological citizenship, building resources for learning, and fostering social movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImportant Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age | Virginia Eubanks | Paperback | 9780262518130 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1756020","offer_id":49146946027672,"sku":"1756020","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81-vLtZJruL.jpg?v=1779469486","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/digital-dead-end-fighting-for-social-justice-in-the-information-age","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}