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Popular technology: Exploring inequality in the information economy

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Are we asking the wrong questions about inequality in the information economy? This paper explores what scholars and activists miss when we frame our critiques of science, technology and inequality only in terms of distributive justice. In it, I suggest that recent feminist scholarship on justice and oppression offers important correctives to the “distributional ethic” of science and technology policy-making. I argue that strategies that focus on oppression rather than distribution—like the “popular technology” technique described here—are better suited to understanding and ameliorating the complex inequalities of the information age. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Virginia Eubanks, 2007. "Popular technology: Exploring inequality in the information economy," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 34(2), pages 127-138, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:34:y:2007:i:2:p:127-138
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    1. Theo Papaioannou, 2011. "Technological innovation, global justice and politics of development," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 11(4), pages 321-338, July.

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