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Access Is Capture

How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality
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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.

Author Biography:

Roderic N. Crooks is Assistant Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. 
Release date Australia
September 3rd, 2024
Illustrations
4 halftones, 1 table, 1 chart, 1 map
Pages
269
ISBN-13
9780520393288
Product ID
38752538

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