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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Technology, society and inequality
    sub title: new horizons and contested futures
  name:
    name part: Cudworth, Erika
    name part: 1966-
  name:
    name part: Senker, Peter.
  name:
    name part: Walker, Kathy.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 215 pages : map ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Erika Cudworth, Peter Senker and Kathy Walker, editors.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Capitalism
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Equality
  subject:
    topic: Digital divide
  classification: HC79.I55 T439 2013
  classification: 303.48/3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Digital formations ; v. 87
  identifier: 9781433119712 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1433119714 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781433119705 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1433119706 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781453910429 (e-book)
  identifier: 1453910425 (e-book)
  identifier: 2013003323
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130201
    record change date: 20131001104604.0
    record identifier: in00003425192
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng