Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age (Mit Press)

Digital Dead End by Virginia Eubanks is a thought-provoking book that sheds light on the harsh realities of the high-tech global economy for women and families in the United States.

The author argues that the idea of technology paving the road to prosperity is a form of magical thinking, driven by flawed assumptions about race, class, and gender.

However, despite these inequities, Eubanks finds hope in a new approach to creating a broadly inclusive and empowering technology for people, popular technology, which involves shifting the focus from teaching technical skills to nurturing critical technological citizenship, building resources for learning, and fostering social movement.

This book is a must-read for anyone working towards social justice in the world of technology.