Benjamin, Ruha.
Summary: "From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polity 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BENKhanna, Ro
Summary: "Rep Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary roadmap to facing America's digital divide. In Khanna's vision, "just as people can move to technology, technology can move to people. People need not be compelled to move from one place to another to reap the benefits offered by technological progress" (from the foreword by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 KHASummary: Streaming media, digital downloads, 24/7 communications, virtual worlds, and data galore: welcome to the Information Age! In this program, technology experts and everyday Internet consumers talk about the high-tech world we live in. Using clear and simple terms, they comment on available types of online services, their benefits and drawbacks, the widening impact of the Web on pretty much...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Despite unprecedented growth in the world economy as a whole, some 1.5 billion people in developing countries live in extreme poverty, and the living conditions for twice that number are almost as deplorable. This program investigates how both trade and financial aid are being used to help Costa Rica and other third-world nations bridge the technological divide and gain much-needed know-how so...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this TEDTalk, Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating, and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding online encyclopedia. The ultimate goal? "To get a free encyclopedia to every single person on the planet," says Wales. "We're really interested in all the issues of the digital divide, poverty...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: During the recent period of high employment and low inflation, the economic fortunes of the U.S. could hardly have been better. But as the rich got richer, the gap between rich and poor grew all the larger. Today's concerns over recession notwithstanding, has the gulf between the haves and the have-nots finally widened to the point of moral indefensibility? Have the nation's obligations to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006