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
Mitchell, William J (William John) 1944- Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 411 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1999
Contents:
The informational city is a dual city : can it be reversed? / Manuel Castells -- Changing geographies : technology and income / Peter Hall -- Center cities as havens and traps for low-income communities : the potential impact of advanced information technology / Julian Wolpert -- The city of bits hypothesis / William J. Mitchell -- Information technology in historical perspective / Leo Marx -- Equitable access to the online world / William J. Mitchell -- Information technologies that change relationships between low-income communities and the public, and nonprofit agencies that serve them / Joseph Ferreira, Jr. -- Planning support systems for low-income communities / Michael J. Shiffer -- Software entrepreneurship among the urban poor : could Bill Gates have succeeded if he were black? ... or impoverished? / Alice H. Amsden, Jon Collins Clark -- Action knowledge and symbolic knowledge : the computer as mediator / Jeanne Bamberger -- The computer clubhouse : technological fluency in the inner city / Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, Stina Cooke -- Computer as community memory : how people in very poor neighborhoods made a computer their own / Bruno Tardieu -- Social empowerment through community networks / Alan Shaw, Michelle Shaw -- Commodity and community in personal computing / Sherry Turkle -- Approaches to community computing : bringing technology to low-income groups / Anne Beamish -- Information technology and urban poverty : the role of public policy / Bish Sanyal, Donald A. Schön
Topic:
Information technology--Social aspects Search this
