Disability and Technology
Key papers from Disability & Society
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-1-138-30554-0 (ISBN)
Description
This edited collection brings together keynote articles from the journal Disability & Society to provide a comprehensive and though-provoking exploration of the place of technology in disabled people's lives, documenting and analysing the growing impact of technology on disability and society over recent decades. The authors explore theoretical, empirical and moral dilemmas that arise with the changing relationship between technological change and the lives, aspirations and possibilities of disabled people. The volume is organised into three parts which consider early foundational work connecting disability and technology; key empirical studies related to the optimum use of technologies for independence and inclusion; and new moral and social dynamics thrown up by technological developments for disabled people's lives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-30554-0 (9781138305540)
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Alan Roulstone | Alison Sheldon | Jennifer Harris
Disability and Technology
Key papers from Disability & Society
E-Book
10/2017
1st Edition
Routledge
€68.49
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Alan Roulstone | Alison Sheldon | Jennifer Harris
Disability and Technology
Key papers from Disability & Society
E-Book
10/2017
1st Edition
Routledge
€68.49
Available for download
Alan Roulstone | Alison Sheldon | Jennifer Harris
Disability and Technology
Key papers from Disability & Society
Book
12/2015
1st Edition
Routledge
€241.50
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Persons
Michele Moore is Professor of Inclusive Education at Northumbria University, UK, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Disability & Society.
Alan Roulstone is Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.
Alison Sheldon is a Teaching Fellow in Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.
Jennifer Harris is Professor Emeritus in Social Work at the University of Dundee, UK.
Alan Roulstone is Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.
Alison Sheldon is a Teaching Fellow in Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.
Jennifer Harris is Professor Emeritus in Social Work at the University of Dundee, UK.
Content
Series Editor's Preface Part I: Framing the relationship between disability and technology 1. Communications technology - empowerment or disempowerment? 2. In whose service? Technology, care and disabled people: The case for a disability politics perspective 3. Information and communication technologies and the opportunities of disabled persons in the Swedish labour market 4. Enacting disability: how can science and technology studies inform disability studies? Part II: Empirical studies of technology and reduction of disabling barriers 5. The use, role and application of advanced technology in the lives of disabled people in the UK 6. A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China 7. Increases in wheelchair use and perceptions of disablement 8. Back to the future, disability and the digital divide Part III: Moral and social tensions between disability and technology 9. Disability, identity and disclosure in the online dating environment 10. 'I know, I can, I will try': Youths and adults with intellectual disabilities in Sweden using information and communication technology in their everyday life 11. Implants and ethnocide: Learning from the cochlear implant controversy 12. Cyborg anxiety: Oscar Pistorius and the boundaries of what it means to be human Conclusion