Contents -- LIST OF FIGURES -- INTRODUCTION: DATA-DRIVEN DEMOCRACY? SOCIAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING by HANK BROMLEY -- I. DISCURSIVE PRACTICES: WHO SPEAKS OF COMPUTING, AND HOW? -- 1. The Mythic Machine: Gendered Irrationalities and Computer Culture by ZOË SOFIA -- 2. The Everyday Aesthetics of Computer Education by ANTHONY P. SCOTT -- 3. Telling Tales Out of School: Modernist, Critical, and Postmodern ''True Stories" about Educational Computing by MARY BRYSON and SUZANNE DE CASTELL -- 4. Computer Advertising and the Construction of Gender by MATTHEW WEINSTEIN -- II. CLASSROOM PRACTICES: PEDAGOGY AND POWER IN ACTION -- 5. ''I Like Computers, But Many Girls Don't": Gender and the Sociocultural Context of Computing by Brad R. Huber and Janet Ward Schofield -- 6. "You Don't Have To Be a Teacher To Teach This Unit": Teaching, Technology, and Control in the Classroom by MICHAEL W. APPLE and SUSAN JUNGCK -- III. DEMOCRATIC POSSIBILITIES: WHEN DOES TECHNOLOGY EMPOWER -- 7. Control and Power in Educational Computing by Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and Batya Friedman -- 8. Using Computers to Connect Across Cultural Divides by BRIGID A. STARKEY -- 9. Learning to Exercise Power: Computers and Community Development by ANTONIA STONE -- NOTES -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- REFERENCES -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 7 -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- AUTHOR INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- SUNY Series, Frontiers in Education.