Access is capture how edtech reproduces racial inequality / Roderic N. Crooks.
| Author/creator | Crooks, Roderic N., 1973- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Access as racial progress -- Access as social justice -- Access as surveillance -- Access as management -- Access as community control -- Conclusion : access is capture [but some of us get free]. |
| Abstract | "Racially and economically segregated schools across the country have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their tools will improve 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 the site 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 extracting capital from minoritized communities to enrich the tech sector"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024005820 |
| ISBN | 9780520393271 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780520393288 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |