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"Winner of the 2018 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association"
"Anyone holding Sims’s book will have at hand— literally—a reminder of how reformers’ dreams of using technology’s magical power to shape a perfect future tend to persist, even in the face of real-world constraints and ethical concerns."---Amy Sue Bix, Technology and Culture

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 Cycles of Disruptive Fixation 24 3 Spatial Fixations 56 4 Pedagogic Fixations 87 5 Amenable and Fixable Subjects 111 6 Community Fixations 139 7 Conclusion: The Resilience of Techno-Idealism 163 Appendix Ethnographic Fixations 179 Notes 185 References 195 Index 207

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 28/03/2017
      ISBN13: 9780691163987, 978-0691163987
      ISBN10: 0691163987
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Winner of the 2018 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association"
      "Anyone holding Sims’s book will have at hand— literally—a reminder of how reformers’ dreams of using technology’s magical power to shape a perfect future tend to persist, even in the face of real-world constraints and ethical concerns."---Amy Sue Bix, Technology and Culture

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 Cycles of Disruptive Fixation 24 3 Spatial Fixations 56 4 Pedagogic Fixations 87 5 Amenable and Fixable Subjects 111 6 Community Fixations 139 7 Conclusion: The Resilience of Techno-Idealism 163 Appendix Ethnographic Fixations 179 Notes 185 References 195 Index 207

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