Digital Disability

The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

By: Gerard Goggin, Christopher Newell

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eText | 23 November 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Goggin and Newell offer a thought provoking analysis of the ways in which the 'new media'-the digitization and advancement of new communications technologies-and the culture of people with disabilities intersect. Their discerning critique forces readersto contemplate the extent to which emerging technologies, rather than liberating people with disabilities, are perpetuating their stigmatization and keeping them at the margins of our society. In their bold and sometimes controversial examination of theissue, Goggin and Newell challenge the regulators and corporations that control and shape new technologies to begin empowering people with disabilities by including them in the policy decisions and design processes that define the new media. An insightfulbook for anyone working in the field of telecommunications and people with disabilities..