Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture)

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 Internet, 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. 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. 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. Gerard Goggin And Christopher Newell. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 155-173) And Index.