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The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”
The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”
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84 minutes
Released:
Feb 4, 2023
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Podcast episode
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Information scholar Daniel Greene, an assistant professor at University of Maryland, talks about his book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The Promise of Access examines how the “digital divide” became a policy problem, and draws on fascinating ethnographies of a “tech” startup, a public library, and a charter school to examine how organizations come to chase technological solutions to social problems.
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Feb 4, 2023
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