High Technology and Low-Income Communities
Subtitle: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology
Contributors: Donald A. Schön (Editor); Bish Sanyal (Editor); William J. Mitchell (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: October 16, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780262691994
Subjects: Cultural studies; Impact of computing & IT on society; Impact of science & technology on society; Urban communities; Computers And Society; Technology And Social Change; Technology & Engineering; Computers - General Information; Science/Mathematics; Computer Industry; Popular Culture - General; Sociology - Urban; Architecture / Planning; Industrial Technology; Sociology - General; Information technology; Poor; Social Aspects
Description: "How will low-income communities be affected by the waves of social, economic, political, and cultural change that surround the new information technologies? How can we influence the outcome? This action-oriented book identifies the key issues, explores the evidence, and suggests some answers. Avoiding both utopianism and despair, the book presents the voices of technology enthusiasts and skeptics, as well as social activists."--BOOK JACKET.