The Access Doctrine and Its Implications

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The way that the administration wants to address poverty is not through a welfare state and social support programmes, but through providing access to opportunities. So can you talk a bit about the access doctrine and then who falls on which side of this digitall divide? And haw, they're supposed to cross it yet he no, its. It's always going to be really important for me to say that these are very real inequalities. There are absolutely have always been people who have not been to get inernet access.

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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