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Technology and in/equality : questioning the information society / edited by Sally Wyatt ... [et al.]

Contributor(s): Wyatt, Sally [(ed.)].
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000Description: xii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0415230225.Subject(s): Equality | Information society | Information technologyDDC classification: 303.4833
Contents:
Preface. - Acknowledgements. - List of Contributors. - 1. Critical perspectives on technologies, in/equalities and the information society / Flis Henwood, Sally Wyatt, Nod Miller and Peter Senker. - Pt. I. Promises and threats: access and control in media technologies. 2. Access is not the only problem : using and controlling the internet / Graham Thomas And Sally Wyatt. 3. Panaceas and promises of democratic participation : reactions to new channels, from the wireless to the World Wide Web / Rod Allen And Nod Miller. 4. Public service broadcasting and new distribution technologies : issues of equality, access and choice in the transactional television environment / Kathy Walker. 5. Limited Horizons (inc.) : access, democracy and technology in community television in Canada / Herbert F. Pimlott. - Pt. II. Exclusion, inclusion and segregation : new technology and skill in education. 6. A tale of two cultures? Gender and inequality in computer education / Flis Henwood, Sarah Plumeridge And Linda Stepulevage. 7. Tending to the tamagotchi : rhetoric and reality in the use of new technologies for distance learning / Nod Miller, Helen Kennedy And Linda Leung. - Pt. III. Technology, inequality and economic development. 8. Social inequality, technology and economic growth / Chris Freeman. 9. Inequality, work and technology in the services sector / Gavin Poynter And Alvaro De Miranda. 10. A. dynamic perspective on technology, economic inequality and development / Peter Senker. - Bibliography. - Index.
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Preface. - Acknowledgements. - List of Contributors. - 1. Critical perspectives on technologies, in/equalities and the information society / Flis Henwood, Sally Wyatt, Nod Miller and Peter Senker. - Pt. I. Promises and threats: access and control in media technologies. 2. Access is not the only problem : using and controlling the internet / Graham Thomas And Sally Wyatt. 3. Panaceas and promises of democratic participation : reactions to new channels, from the wireless to the World Wide Web / Rod Allen And Nod Miller. 4. Public service broadcasting and new distribution technologies : issues of equality, access and choice in the transactional television environment / Kathy Walker. 5. Limited Horizons (inc.) : access, democracy and technology in community television in Canada / Herbert F. Pimlott. - Pt. II. Exclusion, inclusion and segregation : new technology and skill in education. 6. A tale of two cultures? Gender and inequality in computer education / Flis Henwood, Sarah Plumeridge And Linda Stepulevage. 7. Tending to the tamagotchi : rhetoric and reality in the use of new technologies for distance learning / Nod Miller, Helen Kennedy And Linda Leung. - Pt. III. Technology, inequality and economic development. 8. Social inequality, technology and economic growth / Chris Freeman. 9. Inequality, work and technology in the services sector / Gavin Poynter And Alvaro De Miranda. 10. A. dynamic perspective on technology, economic inequality and development / Peter Senker. - Bibliography. - Index.