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This book suggests that the primary purpose of current production and distribution of products and services from the global capitalist system is not to satisfy human needs but to create profit for the owners of capital, which in turn has devastating consequences for the environment and for vulnerable people in both developed and developing countries. The wider dynamics of capitalist systems of production/consumption and inequality are also explored in relation to economic and socio/cultural perspectives. With this in mind, the essays address three key themes: relations between technologies, inequalities, and exploitation; issues surrounding technologies and development; and the nature of technologies and their associated opportunities for the future. -- Publisher description
1. Introduction: Contested futures: technology, inequality and progress -- 2. Technology and the individualization of consumption: the development of personal computing -- 3. The ICT value chain: perpetuating inequalities -- 4. Climate change, industrial animal agriculture and complex inequalities: developments in the politics of food insecurity -- 5. The cultural implications of the consumption of ICTs for development -- 6. Health care systems, technology and inequality -- 7. Elearning or e(l)earning: contemporary developments in the commodification and consumption of education -- 8. Arable agriculture, food technology choice and inequality -- 9. Invisible medium, virtual commodity: changing perspectives on the radio spectrum: from public good to private gain? -- 10. Secondary schools under surveillance: young people 'as' risk in the UK an exploration of the neoliberal shift from compassion to repression -- 11. Reclaiming the media: technology, tactics and subversion -- 12. Conclusions: new horizons and contested futures.
Erika Cudworth, Peter Senker and Kathy Walker, editors.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index.