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The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century— developments which make up the concept of the “digital”—has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution has made it possible not only to imagine but to actually realize a world in which social inequality and poverty are vanquished. But instead these developments have led to an unprecedented level of accumulation of private profits. Rather than the end of social inequality we are witness to its global expansion.Recent cultural theory tends to focus on the intricate surface effects of the emerging digital realities, proposing that technological advances effect greater cultural freedom for all, ignoring the underpinning social context. But beneath the surfaces of digital culture are complex social and historical relations that can be understood only from the perspective of a class analysis which explains why the new realities of the “digital condition" are conditioned by the actualities of global class inequalities. It is no longer the case that "technology" can take on the appearance of a simple or neutral aspect of human society. It is time for a critique of the digital times.In The Digital Condition, Rob Wilkie advances a groundbreaking analysis of digital culture which argues that the digital geist—which has its genealogy in such concepts as the “body without organs,” “spectrality,” and “différance”—has obscured the implications of class difference with the phantom of a digital divide. Engaging the writings of Hardt and Negri, Poster, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Haraway, Latour, and Castells, the literature and cinema of cyberpunk, and digital commodities like the iPod, Wilkie initiates a new direction within the field of digital cultural studies by foregrounding the continuing importance of class in shaping the contemporary.

Information superhighway --- Computers --- Digital divide. --- Information technology --- Divide, Digital --- GDD (Global digital divide) --- Global digital divide --- Information society --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects .

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"A look at the role technology (ICTs) plays in the lives of Brazilian favela dwellers, which the author explores through his own notion of "mundane technologies""--

Impact of science & technology on society --- Impact of science and technology on society --- History of the Americas --- Information technology --- Information society --- Digital divide --- Internet and the poor --- Slums --- Poor --- Marginality, Social --- Social aspects --- Brazil --- Social conditions --- Slum clearance --- Housing --- Poor and the Internet --- Divide, Digital --- GDD (Global digital divide) --- Global digital divide --- Sociology --- Information superhighway --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Knowledge management

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"The pandemic has raised awareness of the need for universal access to high speed internet service in the United States. This book shows us that the debate about internet access is but the latest chapter in a long history of debates about universal service in the United States. This book analyzes the history, costs, and benefits of providing universal access to technologies and services, including education, postal service, telephone service, electrification, public libraries, and Internet"--

Digital divide --- Poor --- Community information services --- Discrimination in municipal services --- History. --- Information services --- Government policy --- Race discrimination in municipal services --- Municipal services --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Divide, Digital --- GDD (Global digital divide) --- Global digital divide --- Information society --- Economic conditions --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects

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This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook use for people of all ages. Members of the Cusp Generation are in a unique position as “part digital natives” to easily acquire and use new media technologies, while being more critically aware of the personal, social, and cultural effects that may arise from them thanks to having some memory of the pre-digital era. Drawing on identity theories rooted in critical theory and cultural studies, the author shows that there are potential constrictions on people’s agency in their Facebook use caused by consumer discourse, Facebook’s hyperreal nature and structure, psychological predispositions, and the potential for avatar attachment. In raising concerns over the impacts of technology-based communication, this book explores how the medium of Facebook extends and exacerbates processes of offline social reproduction and discusses how the positive social and political aspects of Facebook can be enhanced. The findings contribute to academic discussions in the fields of cultural studies and Education and can be applied to the development of critical media literacy for curriculum and pedagogy.

Education - General --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Digital communications --- Online social networks. --- Digital divide. --- Internet --- Social aspects. --- Facebook (Electronic resource) --- Divide, Digital --- GDD (Global digital divide) --- Global digital divide --- Electronic social networks --- Social networking Web sites --- Communications, Digital --- Digital transmission --- Pulse communication --- Facebook (Online social network) --- فيس بوك (Electronic resource) --- Fīs būk (Electronic resource) --- Фейсбук (Electronic resource) --- Feĭsbuk (Electronic resource) --- Naaltsoos biniiʼ (Electronic resource) --- 페이스북 (Electronic resource) --- P'eisŭbuk (Electronic resource) --- פייסבוק (Electronic resource) --- フェイスブック (Electronic resource) --- Feisubukku (Electronic resource) --- Feisu bukku (Electronic resource) --- Фэйсбук (Electronic resource) --- Фејсбук (Electronic resource) --- Fejsbuk (Electronic resource) --- Education. --- Education, general. --- Information society --- Social media --- Social networks --- Sociotechnical systems --- Web sites --- Digital electronics --- Pulse techniques (Electronics) --- Telecommunication --- Digital media --- Signal processing --- Digital techniques --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Virtual communities --- Social media. --- Facebook (Firm) --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Facebook(tm) --- Facebook trademark --- Facebook, Inc.