Reimagining Digital Citizenship via Disability

Abstract

In recent times, disability has gained prominence as an important arena of social justice, politics, and citizenship. This applies also to digital technologies and cultures, where “acts of citizenship” are increasingly generated. Slowly, disability has become recognized as integral and generative part of social life and relations, especially in digital societies. In this chapter I argue that there are various ways in which disability could be explicitly recognized as core to digital citizenship. However, to do this, we need to confront significant cultural baggage.