Article:
Technology and In/equality, Questioning the Information Society: (Almost) 20 Years Later

dc.creatorHenwood, Flis
dc.creatorWyatt, Sally
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-06T14:08:20Z
dc.date.available2021-05-06T14:08:20Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAt the beginning of the 21st century, we co-edited a book called Technology and In/equality, Questioning the information Society. In that book, we focused on access and control of media technology, education and skills with a particular focus on gender and global economic development. The editors and contributors were all committed to approaching teaching and research about digital technologies and society from an interdisciplinary perspective. In this article, we reflect on how the debates about digital inequalities have developed over the past 20 years, and on our current understanding of “technology” and “in/equality,” the key terms in the title of the book. In this article, we examine what has stayed the same and what has changed, through the lens of gender. We argue that while digital technologies have clearly changed, inequalities have persisted. Contrary to popular belief, access is still an issue for the global south, as well as for marginalised communities throughout the world. We also show how gender inequalities and hierarchies are reproduced in digital spaces, demonstrating that even where women have equal access, possibilities for discrimination and oppression remain. We conclude by arguing that there remain important tasks for scholars of technology and new media, namely to monitor the material and symbolic significance of new technological developments as they emerge and to examine the ways in which they may reflect and re-produce social inequalities.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15791
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/16626
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectTechnologiede
dc.subjectDigitalisierungde
dc.subjectSoziale Schichtungde
dc.subjecttechnologyen
dc.subjectdigitisationen
dc.subjectsocial stratificationen
dc.subject.ddcddc:305
dc.titleTechnology and In/equality, Questioning the Information Society: (Almost) 20 Years Lateren
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:33:26
local.identifier.firstpublisheddoi:https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2019-0111
local.source.epage194
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleInequalities and Divides in Digital Cultures
local.source.spage183
local.source.volume5

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