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Technology and Social Futures
Published 2018-05-16
Technology has been woven into disability, and the lives of people with disabilities, in intimate, public, and far-reaching respects. Yet the ways of imagining, framing, shaping, and assembling technology and society remain ...
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No Excuses: Reading for All, Including People with Disabilities. Foreword to Paul Harpur’s Discrimination, Copyright and Equality: Law Opening the eBook for the Print Disabled.
Published 2016-11-15
This article is the foreword to Dr Paul Harpur's 'Discrimination, Copyright and Equality: Law Opening the eBook for the Print Disabled' (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Given that copyright is one of the most widely ...
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Disability and Digital Inequalities: Rethinking Digital Divides with Disability Theory
Published 2016-11-02
Disability has had a chequered career, when it comes to discussions, policies, and practices addressing digital divides and digital inequalities. Over time disability has become an acknowledged element in digital inequality ...
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Reimagining Digital Citizenship via Disability
Published 2016-10-31
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 ...
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Reimagining the Good Life with Disability: Communication, New Technology, and Humane Connections
Published 2015-04-28
Many deeply cherished notions of “the good life” are based on limiting notions of humans, things, and their environment. In particular, “the good life” is often imagined as a realm beyond illness, impairment, and especially, ...
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Disability, Locative Media, and Complex Ubiquity
Published 2015-04-14
The current phase of network societies has generated an intensification of pervasive, ubiquitous digital technologies and cultures of uses, with emergent, complex social functions, and politics. In this chapter, we explore ...
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Disability, Global Popular Media, and Injustice in the Notorious Trial of Oscar Pistorius
Published 2015-08-06
The South African sporting celebrity Oscar Pistorius has long been a subject of fascination for what his rise to fame tells us about disability and society. His trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in ...
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