Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Critical perspectives on technologies, in/equalities and the information society FLIS HENWOOD, SALLY WYATT, NOD MILLER AND PETER SENKER -- Promises and threats: access and control in media technologies -- Access is not the only problem: using and controlling the Internet GRAHAM THOMAS AND SALLY WYATT -- Panaceas and promises of democratic participation: reactions to new channels, from the wireless to the World Wide Web ROD ALLEN AND NOD MILLER -- Public service broadcasting and new distribution technologies: issues of equality, access and choice in the transactional television environment KATHY WALKER -- Limited Horizons (inc.): access, democracy and technology in community television in Canada HERBERT F. PIMLOTT -- Exclusion, inclusion and segregation: new technology and skill in education -- A tale of two cultures? Gender and inequality in computer education FLIS HENWOOD, SARAH PLUMERIDGE AND LINDA STEPULEVAGE -- Tending to the tamagotchi: rhetoric and reality in the use of new technologies for distance learning NOD MILLER, HELEN KENNEDY AND LINDA LEUNG -- Technology, inequality and economic development -- Social inequality, technology and economic growth CHRIS FREEMAN -- Inequality, work and technology in the services sector GAVIN POYNTER AND ALVARO DE MIRANDA -- A dynamic perspective on technology, economic inequality and development PETER SENKER -- Bibliography -- Index.