The Information Society and the Black Community

Herausgeber: Barber, John T.; Tait, Alice A.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 631g
• ISBN-13: 9780275957247
• ISBN-10: 0275957241
• Artikelnr.: 21810027

Autorenporträt

John T. Barber, Alice A. Tait

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by John T. Barber and Alice A. Tait The Technological
Dimension More Than You Think: African Americans On The World Wide Web by
John T. Barber and Stephen Jones Blacks and Information Technology by John
T. Barber and Willis G. Smith African Americans and Privacy: Understanding
the Black Perspective in the Emerging Policy Debate by Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
The Economic Dimension Technology and African American Newspapers:
Implications for Survival and Change by George Sylvie FCC Policy and the
Underdevelopment of Black Entrepreneurship by G. Thomas Wilson, II The New
Model of Black Media Entrepreneurship: BET Holdings, Inc. by John T. Barber
and Alice A. Tait A New Spectrum of Business: African Americans and
Wireless Telephony by John T. Barber The Occupational Dimension
Telecommunications Training: An Academic Perspective by Gloria P. James
Information Labor and African Americans by John T. Barber The Spatial
Dimension Race and the Information Superhighway: Implications for
Participatory Democracy in the 21st Century by Joseph P. McCormick, II and
Taft Broome Race, Politics, and Pedagogy of New Media: from Civil Rights to
Cyber Rights by Jabari Simama The Cultural Dimension Afrocentric
Information Content: Historical Development and Economic Opportunities by
Dhyana Ziegler Old Voices, New Drums: Black News and Information On-line by
Todd Steven Burroughs Black Connections and Disconnections in the Global
Information Supermarket by Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi Is Black America an
Information Community? by John T. Barber and Alice A. Tait