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Leading the future of technology : the vital role of accessible technologies / Rebecca LaForgia, The University of Adelaide

LaForgia, Rebecca [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020

1 Online-Ressource (50 Seiten) : Illustrationen

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: Leading the future of technology / LaForgia, Rebecca [GNDNR:1140608630] (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-108-75122-3 (ebook)

978-1-108-70715-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1227305979     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781108751223

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LOC-SH: Technology -- Social aspects ; Leadership

Technology ; Social aspects ; Leadership

There is presently a view that accessible technologies offer an inclusive and humanistic expression of technology. They do. But that is not all. Accessible technologies offer more than this: they contain within them lessons on transformational leadership. Through examining six case studies the reader will begin to interpret these accessible technologies as expressions of leadership. The risk inherent in the current view is that to view accessible technologies only as examples of humanism, or the good, is to risk underselling them. In fact, accessible technologies (which are being created across international society) represent a powerful leadership approach to technology itself. Through their leadership, these accessible technologies demand and create new and original thinking by society. The reader will benefit from this Element by learning to identify transformational leadership within accessible technological creations and consequently gaining a capacity to apply this leadership to the very purposes of technology itself.