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.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999Description: xvii, 411 pISBN:- 026269199X (alk. paper)
- 306.46
- T58.5. H55 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Setting the Context -- 1. The Informational City Is a Dual City: Can It Be Reversed? -- 2. Changing Geographies: Technology and Income -- 3. Center Cities as Havens and Traps for Low-Income Communities: The Potential Impact of Advanced Information Technology -- 4. The City of Bits Hypothesis -- 5. Information Technology in Historical Perspective -- Pt. II. Strategies of Action -- 6. Equitable Access to the Online World -- 7. Information Technologies that Change Relationships between Low-Income Communities and the Public, and Nonprofit Agencies that Serve Them -- 8. Planning Support Systems for Low-Income Communities -- 9. Software Entrepreneurship among the Urban Poor: Could Bill Gates Have Succeeded if He Were Black?. Or Impoverished? -- 10. Action Knowledge and Symbolic Knowledge: The Computer as Mediator -- 11. The Computer Clubhouse: Technological Fluency in the Inner City -- 12. Computer as Community Memory: How People in Very Poor Neighborhoods Made a Computer Their Own -- 13. Social Empowerment through Community Networks -- 14. Commodity and Community in Personal Computing -- 15. Approaches to Community Computing: Bringing Technology to Low-Income Groups -- Pt. III. Conclusions -- 16. Information Technology and Urban Poverty: The Role of Public Policy -- Index.
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