The Promise of Access - A Book Review

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In the mid seventies in the us, as with pretty much the rest of the west, the wheels really fell off the economy. The profits that had emerged from that had kind of dried up. Everything was shaken up by these series of crises and revolts all over the world. And i think like one of the corps interventions that the book makes is to make sure that we always understand technology policy as a poverty policy.

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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