TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wyatt,Sally
TI  - Technology and in/equality: questioning the information society 
SN  - 0415230225
U1  - 303.4833 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Equality
KW  - Information society
KW  - Information technology
N1  - 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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