Empowered or Left Behind

Empowered or Left Behind
Author: DeeDee M. Bennett Gayle
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2023-07-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000904725

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 a 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, 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 during COVID-19. Part I explains the defining differences between primary and secondary impacts, as well as the unique guidelines adopted in each state. Part II of the book is focused on specific domains, where each chapter is dedicated to topics including economic stability through employment, education, healthcare, and the social/community context through access to services. Part III focuses on unique technological considerations related to COVID-19, such as mobile health-related apps and privacy or security issues that may have posed barriers to the adoption and use of technology. Finally, the book ends with a conclusion chapter, which explicitly explains the advantages and disadvantages of technology adoption during COVID-19. These exposed benefits and challenges will have implications for policies, disaster management practices, and interdisciplinary research.

The People Left Behind

The People Left Behind
Author: Charles E. Bishop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1968
Genre: History
ISBN:

Conference report on a seminar on problems of poverty among rural workers in the USA - includes a summary of the findings of the national advisory commission on rural poverty, and covers rural migration to urban areas, relevant aspects of agricultural policy and social policy, etc. Conference held in Washington 1967 December 14.

A Place Like Mississippi

A Place Like Mississippi
Author: W. Ralph Eubanks
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1643260588

An illustrated tour of the landscapes of Mississippi that have inspired the state’s many lauded writers, from Faulkner and Welty to Morris and Ward.

Father Jacques Marquette

Father Jacques Marquette
Author: Susan Sales Harkins
Publisher: Mitchell Lane
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1545749892

A short biography of the French missionary who explored the northern extreme of the Mississippi River to see if it was the Northwest Passage

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1370
Release: 1962
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

State Guides to Flags

State Guides to Flags
Author: Martin Gitlin
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2019-01-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1731603274

Historical and anecdotal information about each of the fifty states' official state flags, including the inspiration of the design.