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Empowered or Left Behind : Use of Technology During COVID-19 by DeeDee M. Bennett Gayle, Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan, DeeDee Bennett Gayle is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Empowered or Left Behind : Use of Technology During COVID-19 about?

Focused on the United States, this book summarizes the secondary impacts of COVID-19 due to the increased use of technology. Establishing the global response of social distancing, mandates for non-essential business, and working from home, the book centers on the disparate guidance provided domestically at the state and local levels. Marginalized populations are highlighted to identify areas where technology facilitated access and reach or contributed to difficulties catapulted by digital literacy or digital access issues. To explain how people may have been empowered or left behind due to new and unique reliance on technology, this book is structured based on the social determinants of health domains. Specifically, this book explains how technology was an umbrella domain that impacted every aspect of life during the pandemic, including access, use, adoption, and digital literacy, and digital equity, as well as privacy and security concerns. Given this book’s focus on the impacts to marginalized populations, there is a thread throughout the book related to the use of technology to perpetuate hate, discrimination, racism, and xenophobic behaviors that emerged as a twin pandemic duri

Who reads Empowered or Left Behind : Use of Technology During COVID-19?

Author

DeeDee M. Bennett Gayle, Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan, DeeDee Bennett Gayle

Publisher

CRC Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000904758

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Technology, Medical