ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the role of technology in the exercise of Active Citizenship for persons with disabilities. It demonstrates how technology and the exercise of Active Citizenship work together in practice, through a theoretical discussion of how technology and the action choices of persons with disabilities mutually influence each other. The chapter provides an in-depth analysis based upon a life-course interview with Vilde, to discuss the relevance of the arguments in relation to persons with disabilities' experience of Active Citizenship in practice. It discusses theoretical perspectives on Active Citizenship and Structuration Theory and compares these with perspectives on agency in Actor-Network theory and Material Agency theory. Scholars within the fields of Actor–Network theory and Material Agency theory have suggested that agency is played out within a network influenced by three related factors: social structures, individual choices, and the material environment.
