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Digital Capitalism Today: It Industry-Led Public Private Partnerships In A Northeastern School, Paige Mustain
Digital Capitalism Today: It Industry-Led Public Private Partnerships In A Northeastern School, Paige Mustain
Masters Theses
There has been considerable zeal regarding the democratizing promises of information and communication technologies (ICTs). This belief has resulted in the proliferation of ICT development initiatives in education through public private partnerships. However, there are critical scholars who caution against an overly celebratory perspective of ICTs and expose the ways in which they may be contributing to the exacerbation of existing inequalities. This thesis was inspired by Dan Schiller’s book, Digital Capitalism (1999) with the purpose of examining how digital capitalism is evident today.
'Digital capitalism' refers to the relationship between politics, economics, and technology that explains the shift in …