Access Is Capture

How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality

Roderic N Crooks (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

269 Seiten

2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39328-8 (ISBN)

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Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will rectify the failures of public education. Edtech's benefits are not only trumpeted by industry promoters and evangelists but also vigorously pursued by experts, educators, students, and teachers. Why, then, has edtech yet to make good on its promises? In Access Is Capture, Roderic N. Crooks investigates how edtech functions in Los Angeles public schools that exclusively serve Latinx and Black communities. These so-called urban schools are sites of intense, ongoing technological transformation, where the tantalizing possibilities of access to computing meet the realities of structural inequality. Crooks shows how data-intensive edtech delivers value to privileged individuals and commercial organizations but never to the communities that hope to share in the benefits. He persuasively argues that data-drivenness ultimately enjoins the public to participate in a racial project marked by the extraction of capital from minoritized communities to enrich the tech sector.

Roderic N. Crooks is Assistant Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

Contents

Acknowledgments

01 Access as Racial Progress
02 Access as Social Justice
03 Access as Surveillance
04 Access as Management
05 Access as Community Control
Conclusion: Access Is Capture (But Some of Us Get Free)

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	4 halftones, 1 table, 1 chart, 1 map
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39328-7 / 0520393287
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39328-8 / 9780520393288
Zustand	Neuware