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Jennifer S. Light

Researcher at Northwestern University

Publications -  23
Citations -  886

Jennifer S. Light is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urban planning & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 22 publications receiving 766 citations. Previous affiliations of Jennifer S. Light include Harvard University.

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When Computers Were Women

TL;DR: In this article, auteur retablit la verite sur l'histoire des femmes a l'aube de l'ere informatique, d'une part afin de corriger le dossier on l'ENIAC a lunite de Pennsylvanie et pour explorer les presupposes sexistes qui subsistent dans le monde professionnel.
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Rethinking the digital divide

TL;DR: Light as discussed by the authors examines the asymmetries between the current and earlier debates about the relationship between technology and society, and suggests that these differences may generate ways to enrich the current debate and begin a conversation about more robust solutions.
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From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America

TL;DR: Light argues that the technologies and values of the Cold War fundamentally shaped the history of postwar urban America as mentioned in this paper, and traces the transfer of innovations from military to city planning and management, revealing how a continuing source of inspiration for American city administrators lay in the nation's preparations for war.
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From City Space to Cyberspace

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Discriminating Appraisals: Cartography, Computation, and Access to Federal Mortgage Insurance in the 1930s

TL;DR: In this paper, the history of the US Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and its risk-rating system is discussed. But the authors focus on the discriminatory aspects of the FHA's risk-mapping techniques to reveal how discriminatory practices could be regarded as apolitical.