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The Information Society and the Black Community

Author : John T. Barber
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Information Society and the Black Community written by John T. Barber and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the Information Age promise egalitarianism and democracy, or will it simply reinforce long-standing social and economic inequalities? This collection of essays analyzes the emerging role of African-Americans in post-industrial society from a variety of communications research perspectives. Accepting W.J. Wilson's theory of a socially and economically isolated African-American underclass, Barber and Tait ask the logical question: what next? The Information Society and the Black Community is a critical examination of the prospects and pitfalls of a historically disadvantaged group in a period of rapid technological advances and economic growth. Adopting Frank Websters theory of the Information Society as a framework for organization and development, the book is divided into five sections that look at technological, economic, occupational, spatial, and cultural aspects of the relationship between the African-American community and the Information Society. Part One analyzes data on African-American use of information technology, and examines how the new flow of information might effect African-American social and cultural images. Part Two focuses on African-American participation in the ownership and control of information industries. Part Three treats professional training and employment patterns affecting African-Americans in the Information Age. Part Four centers around the potential uses of information technology in solving social, political, and economic problems. Part Five addresses the growing connections of the African-American community to Africa and the rest of the world via information technology.

The Black Digital Elite

Author : John T. Barber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313038864
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Black Digital Elite written by John T. Barber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most discussions of the digital divide focus on the gap between African Americans and others when it comes to using, and benefiting from, the technological and business opportunities of the information age. Although many African Americans are locked out of the information revolution, others are an integral part of its development and progress. Barber profiles 26 of those leaders here, engagingly and informatively blending biography with insight and analysis. Most discussions of the digital divide focus on the gap between African Americans and others when it comes to using, and benefiting from, the technological and business opportunities of the information age. Although many African Americans are locked out of the information revolution, others are an integral part of its development and progress. Barber profiles 26 of them here, engagingly and informatively blending biography with insight and analysis. Documenting history as it is being made, this book features achievers in all fields of relevant endeavor, including scientists, business leaders, power brokers, and community leaders. Among them are Robert Johnson, CEO of Black Entertainment Television; Richard Parsons, CEO of AOL Time-Warner; congressmen and other policymakers in Washington, D.C.; and men and women who are working to bridge the digital divide in satellite radio, web-based portals, and on the ground with IT workshops. This book is not just about business success or technological progress. The African American digerati are solving one of the great social challenges of the 21st century: creating a black community that is prosperous in a society that has changed from being a land-based industrial society to a cyberspace-based information society.

The Information Society

Author : William J. Martin
Publisher : London : Aslib
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Information Society written by William J. Martin and published by London : Aslib. This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Information Society, Poverty and Development

Author : Nsongurua J. Udombana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Information Society, Poverty and Development written by Nsongurua J. Udombana and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our age of Information Society (IS), and represented in the Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), offers immense opportunity for sustainable economic development and the reduction of poverty. It does so by increasing access to market information and reducing transaction cost to poor farmers and traders; by increasing efficiency, competitiveness and market access of developing country firms; and by enhancing the ability of developing countries to participate in the global economy, thereby exploiting the comparative advantage in factor costs, in particular skilled labour. Yet, these goals are unattainable in the present state of digital divide, since access to ICTs is determined not only by infrastructure but also by people's ability to afford and use them. Furthermore, the digital divide perpetuates underdevelopment, which is Africa's current condition. Bridging the gap requires creating a knowledge society and forging new partnerships for development among members of the international community.

Collective Courage

Author : Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271064269
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Collective Courage written by Jessica Gordon Nembhard and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.

Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society

Author : P. E. Thomas
Publisher : Information Science Reference
ISBN 13 : 9781466685987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society written by P. E. Thomas and published by Information Science Reference. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together an international and interdisciplinary forum of scholars and researchers to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role that information plays in all aspects of modern society including law enforcement, democracy, governance, finance, rural development, and more"--

More Courageous Conversations About Race

Author : Glenn E. Singleton
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1412992664
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis More Courageous Conversations About Race by : Glenn E. Singleton

Download or read book More Courageous Conversations About Race written by Glenn E. Singleton and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the highly acclaimed Courageous Conversations About Race offered educators a frame work and tools for promoting racial equity, many schools have implemented the Courageous Conversations Protocol. Now ... in a book that's rich with anecdote, Singleton celebrates the successes, outlines the difficulties, and provides specific strategies for moving Courageous Conversations from racial equity theory to practice at every level, from the classroom to the school superintendent's office"--Back cover.

Minnesota's Black Community in the 21st Century

Author : Anthony R. Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681341316
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Minnesota's Black Community in the 21st Century written by Anthony R. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring celebration of the accomplishments of African American professionals in Minnesota, highlighting the contributions of individuals and organizations in a wide range of fields.

The African American Experience In Cyberspace

Author : Abdul Alkalimat
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745322223
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The African American Experience In Cyberspace written by Abdul Alkalimat and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2003-12-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Wide Web is the greatest source of information used by students and teachers, media and library professionals, as well as the general public. There is so great a flow of information that it is necessary to have a tool for guiding one to the best and most reliable sources. This important new guide to the African American experience in cyberspace fills this need for people in all areas of Black Studies and Multiculturalism. There is no search engine list that can match the quality of sites to be found in this book.Alkalimat provides an easy to use directory to the very best websites that deal with the African American Experience. The first section covers every aspect of African American history, while a second section deals with a diverse set of topics covering society and culture. Each chapter has a brief essay, extensively annotation on the five best sites for each topic, and then a group of good sites and a short bibliography. This book is designed for a course at the high school or college level. This book should be kept near every home computer that people use to surf the web for Black content.Most people have found out that the major corporations and governments have been the dominant uploaders of information into cyberspace. This volume is different because it is a serious introduction to the full democratic use of the web. These websites will introduce people to the people who are serious about ending the digital divide because they are busy uploading information about the most excluded and marginalized people, the African American community. Many of these sites are being established by Black Studies academic programmes, as well as community based organizations and institutions.

Technology and In/equality

Author : Flis Henwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134582021
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Technology and In/equality written by Flis Henwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and In/equality explores the diverse implications of the new information and communication technologies through case studies of their applications in three main areas - media, education and training, and work. Questions of access to and control over crucial resources such as information, knowledge, skills and income ae addressed drawing upon insights from science and technology studies, innovation theory, sociology and cultural studies. All of the chapters question the meanings of the terms 'technology' and 'inequality' and of the widespread association of technology with progress. Written with a non-specialist readership in mind, all complex theories and key concepts are carefully explained making the book easily accessible and relevant to a wide range of courses.

The Black Box Society

Author : Frank Pasquale
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967100
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Black Box Society written by Frank Pasquale and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior—silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. The data compiled and portraits created are incredibly detailed, to the point of being invasive. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with this information? The Black Box Society argues that we all need to be able to do so—and to set limits on how big data affects our lives. Hidden algorithms can make (or ruin) reputations, decide the destiny of entrepreneurs, or even devastate an entire economy. Shrouded in secrecy and complexity, decisions at major Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms were long assumed to be neutral and technical. But leaks, whistleblowers, and legal disputes have shed new light on automated judgment. Self-serving and reckless behavior is surprisingly common, and easy to hide in code protected by legal and real secrecy. Even after billions of dollars of fines have been levied, underfunded regulators may have only scratched the surface of this troubling behavior. Frank Pasquale exposes how powerful interests abuse secrecy for profit and explains ways to rein them in. Demanding transparency is only the first step. An intelligible society would assure that key decisions of its most important firms are fair, nondiscriminatory, and open to criticism. Silicon Valley and Wall Street need to accept as much accountability as they impose on others.

The Information Society

Author : American Library Association. President's Commission on the Detroit Conference
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Information Society written by American Library Association. President's Commission on the Detroit Conference and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1978 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of conference papers and literature surveys on the impact of technological change, social change and information access problems on librarys in the USA - covers issues relating to information growth in postindustrial society, rising costs, effects of computerization, the role of librarians, etc. References. Conference held in Detroit 1977.

The Impact of Information on Society

Author : Michael W. Hill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110935341
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Information on Society written by Michael W. Hill and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Impact of Information on Society takes account of a number of new developments affecting information's impact on our lives. It also incorporates lessons to be learnt from prominent events. For example, a 'UK Freedom of Information Act', forecast in the 1st edition, is now law and so updating is necessary. The growing significance of knowledge management today requires a closer look at this field and clarification of its relation to information management. The first edition has been reviewed critically and sections have been amplified and rearranged, with new material being added where necessary. To mention just a few points: since the 1st edition, there have been amendments to copyright, data protection legislation and human rights legislation. The consequences of the enormous and growing level of use of the Internet, eMail and mobile phones (including text messaging) also requires reassessment.

Know Your Price

Author : Andre M. Perry
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815737289
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Know Your Price written by Andre M. Perry and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. “That's just how they are” or “there's really no excuse”: we've all heard those not so subtle digs. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. We haven't known how much the country will gain by properly valuing homes and businesses, family structures, voters, and school districts in Black neighborhoods. And we need to know. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes readers on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued. Perry begins in his hometown of Wilkinsburg, a small city east of Pittsburgh that, unlike its much larger neighbor, is struggling and failing to attract new jobs and industry. Bringing his own personal story of growing up in Black-majority Wilkinsburg, Perry also spotlights five others where he has deep connections: Detroit, Birmingham, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. He provides an intimate look at the assets that should be of greater value to residents—and that can be if they demand it. Perry provides a new means of determining the value of Black communities. Rejecting policies shaped by flawed perspectives of the past and present, it gives fresh insights on the historical effects of racism and provides a new value paradigm to limit them in the future. Know Your Price demonstrates the worth of Black people's intrinsic personal strengths, real property, and traditional institutions. These assets are a means of empowerment and, as Perry argues in this provocative and very personal book, are what we need to know and understand to build Black prosperity.

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: O-T

Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195167791
Total Pages : 2637 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: O-T written by Paul Finkelman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 2637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically-arranged entries from O to T that explores significant events, major persons, organizations, and political and social movements in African-American history from 1896 to the twenty-first-century.

The People's Voice

Author : Adrian Hadland
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796920591
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The People's Voice written by Adrian Hadland and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study provides an overview of relevant legislation and policy in South Africa, pre- and post- 1994, as well as a review of international research that reveals global trends in small media development. It sketches the distribution of the sector in South Africa, revealing the topography of service providers and key stakeholders. The report identifies the interests that are common to small independent and community media groupings and examines ways in which the sustainability of these organisations can be promoted. Providing a range of pertinent data, analysis and information, this study will be invaluable for anyone wishing to engage effectively with the small media sector. The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) was established to direct funding and support to the small media sector in the interests of deepening South Africa's young democracy. The principal objective of this study is to assist the MDDA in its important and complex work.

The Information Society Reader

Author : with Raimo Blom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000082768
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Information Society Reader written by with Raimo Blom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering principle in society, whereas others suggest that the rise of information has been overstated. Whatever the case, it cannot be denied that 'informization' has produced vast changes in advanced societies. The Information Society Reader pulls together the main contributions to this debate from some of the key figures in the field. Major topics addressed include: * post-industrialism * surveillance * transformations * the network society * democracy * digital divisions * virtual relations. With a comprehensive introduction from Frank Webster, selections from Manuel Castells, Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault and Christopher Lasch amongst others, and section introductions contextualising the readings, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and academics studying contemporary society and all things cyber.