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Disability and New Media

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Disability and New Media

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Disability and New Media

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Disability and New Media book

ByKatie Ellis, Mike Kent
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 17 December 2010
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203831915
Pages 184
eBook ISBN 9780203831915
Subjects Computer Science, Humanities, Social Sciences
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Ellis, K., & Kent, M. (2011). Disability and New Media (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203831915

ABSTRACT

Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for individual users to control how the content is displayed has been diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely technical decisions but they are highly political and betray a disturbing trend of ableist assumption that serve to exclude people with disability. It has been argued that the Internet will not be fully accessible until disability is considered a cultural identity in the same way that class, gender and sexuality are. Kent and Ellis build on this notion using more recent Web 2.0 phenomena, social networking sites, virtual worlds and file sharing.

Many of the studies on disability and the web have focused on the early web, prior to the development of social networking applications such as Facebook, YouTube and Second Life. This book discusses an array of such applications that have grown within and alongside Web 2.0, and analyzes how they both prevent and embrace the inclusion of people with disability.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |10 pages

Introduction: The Great Potential of Digital Technology

part |2 pages

Part I At the Crossroads

chapter 1|16 pages

Universal Design in a Digital World

chapter 2|15 pages

iAccessibility from iTunes 1.0 to iPad

chapter 3|19 pages

Building Digital Stairways: Nice View, But What About My Wheelchair?

part |2 pages

Part II How Did We Get Here?

chapter 4|16 pages

We Want You in Our Network: Universal Design v Retrofi tting the Web

chapter 5|14 pages

(Physical) Disability is a Form of Social Oppression?

chapter 6|18 pages

Does That Face-“Book” Come in Braille? Social Networking Sites and Disability

part |2 pages

Part III Where to Next?

chapter 7|16 pages

Avatars with Wheelchairs, but No Virtual Guide Dogs: Disability and Second Life

chapter 8|17 pages

Challenges and Opportunities: The Road Ahead for Disability in a Digital World

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