The Prodigal Son by Les Haswell
In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologies and the larger American society can or should mean. He argues that African American rhetorical traditions - the traditions of struggle for justice and equitable participation in American society - exhibit complex and nuanced ways of understanding the difficulties inherent in the attempt to navigate through the seemingly impossible contradictions of gaining meaningful access to technological systems with the good they seem to make possible, and at the same time resisting the exploitative impulses that such systems always seem to present. Banks examines moments in these rhetorical traditions of appeals, warnings, demands, and debates to make explicit the connections between technological issues and African Americans' equal and just participation in American society.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781715400293 |
| ISBN 10 | 1715400291 |
| Title | The Prodigal Son |
| Author | Les Haswell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Blurb |
| Year published | 2021-12-21 |
| Number of pages | 242 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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