[Linganth] today - Roderic Crooks

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Roderic Crooks discusses his book,  *Access Is Capture:
How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality *with Zhenzhou “Andy” Tan.

www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: Racially and economically segregated schools across the United
States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education
technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will rectify the
failures of public education. Edtech's benefits are not only trumpeted by
industry promoters and evangelists but also vigorously pursued by experts,
educators, students, and teachers. Why, then, has edtech yet to make good
on its promises? In *Access Is Capture*, Roderic N. Crooks investigates how
edtech functions in Los Angeles public schools that exclusively serve
Latinx and Black communities. These so-called urban schools are sites of
intense, ongoing technological transformation, where the tantalizing
possibilities of access to computing meet the realities of structural
inequality. Crooks shows how data-intensive edtech delivers value to
privileged individuals and commercial organizations but never to the
communities that hope to share in the benefits. He persuasively argues that
data-drivenness ultimately enjoins the public to participate in a racial
project marked by the extraction of capital from minoritized communities to
enrich the tech sector.
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