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Rethinking the digital divide
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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.Abstract:
The term digital divide entered the American vocabulary in the mid-1990s to refer to unequal access to information technology. However, public debate has addressed the digital divide as a technical issue rather than as a reflection of broader social problems. In this article, Jennifer Light critically analyzes how access to technology is constructed as a social problem and examines the particular assumptions about technology and inequality that frame the debate. Drawing on historical examples, Light examines why hopes that technology would improve society have often not been fulfilled. The author examines the striking asymmetries between the current and earlier debates about the relationship between technology and society. She invites us to consider the different ways in which the problem of access to technology has been constructed, and suggests that these differences may generate ways to enrich the current debate and begin a conversation about more robust solutions. (pp. 710–734)read more
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In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index
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Interest and Self-Sustained Learning as Catalysts of Development: A Learning Ecology Perspective.
TL;DR: In this paper, a learning ecology framework and an associated empirical research agenda are described, highlighting the need to better understand how learning outside school relates to learning within schools or other formal organizations, and how learning in school can lead to learning activities outside school.
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America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
Rudi Volti,Claude S. Fischer +1 more
TL;DR: Fischer's America Calling as mentioned in this paper explores how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century and finds that women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then wholeheartedly promoted.
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Design-Based Research and Educational Technology: Rethinking Technology and the Research Agenda.
Tel Amiel,Thomas C. Reeves +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued in the article that design-based research can address some of the deficiencies of other research methods in investigating the role of tools and techniques in the classroom and through more democratic research practices and recognizing technology as a system beyond its tools, researchers can increase their impact on educational practice.
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Handbook of new media : social shaping and consequences of ICTs
TL;DR: Lievrouw and Livingstone as mentioned in this paper discussed the social shaping and consequences of ICTs and the role of the state in the Twenty-First Century about scarcities and intermediaries.
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In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index
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The truly disadvantaged : the inner city, the underclass, and public policy
TL;DR: Wilson's "The Truly Disadvantaged" as mentioned in this paper was one of the sixteen best books of 1987 and won the 1988 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that racial segregation is crucial to explaining the emergence of the urban underclass during the 1970s and that a strong interaction between rising rates of poverty and high levels of residential segregation explains where, why and in which groups the underclass arose.
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The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a look inside the development, inner workings and future of the Internet, and recommend the book as "a must-read for anyone hoping to understand the next wave of human culture and communication".