Article ID: CBB148010275

Meaning and Persuasion: The Personal Computer and Economic Education (2016)

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Abstract: In late 1982, the corporate-funded business education nonprofit Junior Achievement (JA) distributed 121 donated personal computers to classrooms across the United States as part of its new high school course, Applied Economics. Studying JA's use of computers in Applied Economics reveals how a corporate-sponsored nonprofit group used personal computers to engage students, adapt its traditional outreach methods to the classroom, and bolster an appreciation of private enterprise in American economic life. Mapping the history of how business advocacy and education groups came to adopt software as a means of representing work and commerce offers a new perspective on how systems of cultural meaning have been attached to, and expressed through, computers and computing.

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Authors & Contributors
Yost, Jeffrey R.
Cortada, James W.
Guy C. Fedorkow
Elzway, Salem
Casey O'Donnell
Laakso, Mikael
Concepts
Software
History of Computing
Computers and computing
Computer industry
Technology
Computer security; cyber security
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
India
Norway
Japan
Germany
Soviet Union
Institutions
Peter Norton Computing Corporation
Symantec Corporation
United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
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