High technology and low-income communities prospects for the positive use of advanced information technology

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Schön, Donald A., Sanyal, Bishwapriya, Mitchell, William J. 1944-2010
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262287258
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xvii, 411 pages) : illustrations

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Table of 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. Schčon.