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

High technology and low-income communities : prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology / edited by Donald A. Schön, Bish Sanyal, and William J. Mitchell. - xvii, 411 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Setting the Context -- The Informational City Is a Dual City: Can It Be Reversed? -- Changing Geographies: Technology and Income -- Center Cities as Havens and Traps for Low-Income Communities: The Potential Impact of Advanced Information Technology -- The City of Bits Hypothesis -- Information Technology in Historical Perspective -- Strategies of Action -- Equitable Access to the Online World -- Information Technologies that Change Relationships between Low-Income Communities and the Public, and Nonprofit Agencies that Serve Them -- Planning Support Systems for Low-Income Communities -- Software Entrepreneurship among the Urban Poor: Could Bill Gates Have Succeeded if He Were Black?. Or Impoverished? -- Action Knowledge and Symbolic Knowledge: The Computer as Mediator -- The Computer Clubhouse: Technological Fluency in the Inner City -- Computer as Community Memory: How People in Very Poor Neighborhoods Made a Computer Their Own -- Social Empowerment through Community Networks -- Commodity and Community in Personal Computing -- Approaches to Community Computing: Bringing Technology to Low-Income Groups -- Conclusions -- Information Technology and Urban Poverty: The Role of Public Policy -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Pt. III. 16.

026269199X (alk. paper)

97035754


Information technology--Social aspects.
Poor

T58.5. / H55 1999

306.46

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