In the eighties, ragan republicans were trying to regain power. The post war coalition with northern industrial unions was largely starting to collapse. In order to regain the white house, the clin democrats needed to tell a different story. They reached out to tech m because it required some research and development more than what the republicans were giving out.
Paris Marx is joined by Dan Greene to discuss how the Clinton administration reframed poverty through the lens of the internet and how that transformed the missions of key institutions like libraries and schools.
Dan Greene is an assistant professor at University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. He is the author of “The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.” Follow Dan on Twitter at @Green_DM.
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