Becoming a Citizen of the Information Age
Liptsin, Margarita Boenig
In this dissertation I trace the formation of citizens of the information age by
comparing visions and practices to make children and the general public computer literate
or cultured in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union. Computer literacy and
computer culture programs in these three countries began in the early 1970s as efforts to
adapt people to life in the information society as it was envisioned by scholars, thinkers,
and pra...