Warschauer

·      How does Warschauer define access?

 The two most common models of access are based on devices and conduits. Physical access to a computer or any other ICT device. Presence of a device is only a small part of how people can use ICT in their lives. Conduits: device is worthless unless you have the accompanying services. Harder to diffuse conduits than it is devices. Most important thing is a persons ability to make use of the device and conduit. Physical resources (access to computers and telecommunication connections), digital resources (Digital material that is made available online), human resources (literacy and education: being able to obtain the literary practices that are required for computer use and online communication), and social resources (community, institutional, and social structures that support access to ICT).

·      What set of features and technologies describe the various industrial revolutions?

 “post-Fordist” management techniques are used a flattened hierarchy, multi-skilled labor, team based work, and just-in-time production and distribution. Teams of multi-skilled employees grouping and regrouping to take on complex tasks. In the video they had a group of four working on a computer project in which they all had tasks, but worked as a group to complete them. Globalization is the idea that capital, production, management, labor, markets, technology, and information are organized across national boundaries. Click and mortar is the idea of businesses incorporating online communications into their day-to-day functioning. Uses ICT’s to gather, refine, and make instant use of customized information about its customer base, the broader market, production process, supply chain, distribution challenges, and service requirements.·     

Define and understand the concept of informationalism.

Informationalism is the third industrial revolution, an information economy in which computers and the Internet play an essential enabling role. The four characteristics are: the driving role of science and technology for economic growth, a shift from material production to information processing, the emergence and expansion of new forms of networked industrial organization, and the rise of socioeconomic globalization.

·      What are the new categories of workers (as opposed to the old categories of blue-collar and white-collar workers)? What do workers in the new categories do?

 The three categories are routine production workers like data processors, payroll clerks, and factory workers; in-person service workers like janitors, hospital attendants, and taxi drivers; and symbolic analysts like software engineers, management consultants, and strategic planners. They all use the internet and technology, but the first two do so in routine ways am the last use ICT’s for analysis and interpretation of data, create new knowledge, international communication and collaboration, and development of complex multimedia products. Those who have the lower two jobs are usually of a certain class and race, so therefore are not using this new technology to create innovation, so there is never an opportunity to escape these boundaries.