Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America by Meehan, Mary Beth
Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America by Meehan, Mary Beth

Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America

Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us...
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Author: Mary Beth Meehan
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Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America by Meehan, Mary Beth

Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America

BD$43.53
Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America by Meehan, Mary Beth

Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America

BD$43.53
Author: Mary Beth Meehan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world.

It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by race, class, and nationality in complex and contradictory ways. Its beautiful landscape lies atop underground streams of pollutants left behind by decades of technological innovation, and while its billionaires live in compounds, surrounded by redwood trees and security fences, its service workers live in their cars.

With arresting photography and intimate stories, Seeing Silicon Valley makes this hidden world visible. Instead of young entrepreneurs striving for efficiency in minimalist corporate campuses, we see portraits of struggle--families displaced by an impossible real estate market, workers striving for a living wage, and communities harmed by environmental degradation. If the fate of Silicon Valley is the fate of America--as so many of its boosters claim--then this book gives us an unvarnished look into the future.

Author: Mary Beth Meehan, Fred Turner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/12/2021
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.80w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780226786483

About the Author
Mary Beth Meehan is a photographer known for her large-scale, community-based portraiture centered around questions of representation, visibility, and social equity in the United States. She lives in New England. Fred Turner is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author several books, including From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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