Digital Disability The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

by Goggin, Gerard; Newell, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780742518438
• ISBN10: 0742518434
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications -- such as the Interact, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting -- have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging 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.

Author Biography

Gerard Goggin is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland Christopher Newell is senior lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Tasmania

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Preface	xiii
Part I: Technologies of Disability
Encountering Technology, Media, and Culture	3	(16)
Disability in Its Social Context	19	(20)
Part II: Networks of Disability
Holding the Line: Telecommunications and Disability	39	(24)
Disability on the Digital Margins: Convergence and the Construction of Disability	63	(26)
Part III: New Mediations of Disability
Getting the Picture on Disability: Digital Broadcasting Futures	89	(20)
Blind Spots on the Internet	109	(20)
Cultures of Digital Disability	129	(18)
Part IV: The Politics of Disabling Digitization
Rewiring Disability	147	(8)
Bibliography	155	(20)
Index	175	(8)
About the Authors	183