Inequity in the Technopolis : : Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin /

Inequity in the Technopolis : : Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin / / ed. by Joseph Straubhaar, Roberta G. Lentz, Zeynep Tufekci, Jeremiah Spence.

Over the past few decades, Austin, Texas, has made a concerted effort to develop into a “technopolis,” becoming home to companies such as Dell and numerous start-ups in the 1990s. It has been a model for other cities across the nation that wish to become high-tech centers while still retaining the l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Cho, Alexander,
Christensen, Miyase,
Cunningham, Carolyn,
Custard, Holly,
Davis, Stuart,
Dixon, Laura,
Fuentes-Bautista, Martha,
Graber, Dean,
Gustafson, Karen,
Hartenberger, Lisa,
Inagaki, Nobuya,
Lapastina, Antonio,
Lenert, Ed,
Lentz, Roberta,
Letalien, Bethany,
Okur, Ozlem,
Pinon, Juan,
Rojas, Viviana,
Roychowdhury, Debasmita,
Spence, Jeremiah,
Straubhaar, Joseph,
Tufekci, Zeynep,
HerausgeberIn:
Lentz, Roberta G.,
Spence, Jeremiah,
Straubhaar, Joseph,
Tufekci, Zeynep,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2012
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Digital Inequity in the Austin Technopolis: An Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Structuring Race in the Cultural Geography of Austin
  • Chapter 3. A History of High Tech and the Technopolis in Austin
  • Chapter 4. Past and Future Divides: Social Mobility, Inequality, and the Digital Divide in Austin during the Tech Boom
  • Chapter 5. The Digital Divide: The National Debate and Federal- and State-Level Programs
  • Chapter 6. Crossing the Digital Divide: Local Initiatives in Austin
  • Chapter 7. Structuring Access: The Role of Austin Public Access Centers in Digital Inclusion
  • Chapter 8. Bridging the Broadband Gap or Recreating Digital Inequalities? The Social Shaping of Public Wi-Fi in Austin
  • Chapter 9. Communities, Cultural Capital, and Digital Inclusion: Ten Years of Tracking Techno-Dispositions and Techno-Capital
  • Chapter 10. Conclusion
  • Contributors
  • Index

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