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Digital disability : the social construction of disability in new media / Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical media studiesPublisher: Lanham [Md.] : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xx, 183 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0742518434
  • 9780742518438
  • 0742518442
  • 9780742518445
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Digital disability.DDC classification:
  • 303.483 21
LOC classification:
  • HV1569.5 .G64 2003
Contents:
Technologies of disability. Encountering technology, media, and culture -- Disability in its social context. Networks of disability. Holding the line : telecommunications and disability -- Disability on the digital margins : convergence and the construction of disability. New mediations of disability. Getting the picture on disability : digital broadcasting futures -- Blind spots on the Internet -- Cultures of digital disability. The politics of disabling digitization. Rewiring disability -- --
Pt. I. Technologies of Disability. 1. Encountering Technology, Media, and Culture. 2. Disability in Its Social Context -- Pt. II. Networks of Disability. 3. Holding the Line: Telecommunications and Disability. 4. Disability on the Digital Margins: Convergence and the Construction of Disability -- Pt. III. New Mediations of Disability. 5. Getting the Picture on Disability: Digital Broadcasting Futures. 6. Blind Spots on the Internet. 7. Cultures of Digital Disability -- Pt. IV. The Politics of Disabling Digitization. 8. Rewiring Disability.
Summary: This analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and the disabled themselves.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technologies of disability. Encountering technology, media, and culture -- Disability in its social context. Networks of disability. Holding the line : telecommunications and disability -- Disability on the digital margins : convergence and the construction of disability. New mediations of disability. Getting the picture on disability : digital broadcasting futures -- Blind spots on the Internet -- Cultures of digital disability. The politics of disabling digitization. Rewiring disability -- --

Pt. I. Technologies of Disability. 1. Encountering Technology, Media, and Culture. 2. Disability in Its Social Context -- Pt. II. Networks of Disability. 3. Holding the Line: Telecommunications and Disability. 4. Disability on the Digital Margins: Convergence and the Construction of Disability -- Pt. III. New Mediations of Disability. 5. Getting the Picture on Disability: Digital Broadcasting Futures. 6. Blind Spots on the Internet. 7. Cultures of Digital Disability -- Pt. IV. The Politics of Disabling Digitization. 8. Rewiring Disability.

This analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and the disabled themselves.

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