University of Texas Press
This book comes from a ten-year-long study of the digital divide in Austin, Texas, that gradually turned into a broader inquiry into Austin's history as a segregated city, its turn toward becoming a technopolis, what the city and various groups did to try to address the digital divide once it was identified as a major issue in the 1991s, and how various groups and individuals were affected by those programs, as well as by the larger history of Austin.
Austin is widely admired and emulated as a successful example of a technopolis. Often, however, too little attention is paid to the lives of the digital have-nots. This book attempts to remedy this by presenting theoretically informed findings from a ten-year study of the digital divide, or digital inequity, in Austin, covering the period through the dot-com boom and beyond. It examines Austin's turn toward becoming a technopolis by situating it in its history as a segregated city and examines the impact of efforts by the city administration and other groups to address the digital divide.
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