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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37418368 Title: High technology and low-income communities : prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology Author: Donald A Schön; Bishwapriya Sanyal; William J Mitchell Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999. ISBN/ISSN: 026269199X 9780262691994 OCLC:37418368

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High technology and low-income communities : prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology

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High technology and low-income communities : prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology

Author:	Donald A Schön; Bishwapriya Sanyal; William J Mitchell
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:	Book : English
Summary:	"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. Read more...
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Donald A Schön; Bishwapriya Sanyal; William J Mitchell Find more information about:
ISBN:	026269199X 9780262691994
OCLC Number:	37418368
Description:	xvii, 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	The informational city is a dual city : can it be reversed? / Manuel Castells -- Changing geographies : technology and income / Peter Hall -- Center cities as havens and traps for low-income communities : the potential impact of advanced information technology / Julian Wolpert -- The city of bits hypothesis / William J. Mitchell -- Information technology in historical perspective / Leo Marx -- Equitable access to the online world / William J. Mitchell -- Information technologies that change relationships between low-income communities and the public, and nonprofit agencies that serve them / Joseph Ferreira, Jr. -- Planning support systems for low-income communities / Michael J. Shiffer -- Software entrepreneurship among the urban poor : could Bill Gates have suceeded if he were black? ... or impoverished? / Alice H. Amsden, Jon Collins Clark -- Action knowledge and symbolic knowledge : the computer as mediator / Jeanne Bamberger -- The computer clubhouse : technological fluency in the inner city / Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, Stina Cooke -- Computer as community memory : how people in very poor neighborhoods made a computer their own / Bruno Tardieu -- Social empowerment through community networks / Alan Shaw, Michelle Shaw -- Commodity and community in personal computing / Sherry Turkle -- Approaches to community computing : bringing technology to low-income groups / Anne Beamish -- Information technology and urban poverty : the role of public policy / Bish Sanyal, Donald A. Schön.
Responsibility:	edited by Donald A. Schön, Bish Sanyal, William J. Mitchell.

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"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.

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