This book brings together formally disparate literatures and debates on disability and technology in a way that captures the complex interplay between the two. Drawing on disability studies, technology studies and clinical studies, the book argues that interdisciplinary insights together provide a more nuanced and less stylized picture of the benefits and barriers in disability and technology. Drawing on a breadth of empirical studies from across the globe, a picture emerges of the complex and multi-directional interplay of technology and disability. Technology is neither inherently enabling or disabling but fundamentally shaped by the social dynamics that shape their design, use and impact.
Record details
ISBN:113745041X
ISBN:9781137450418
ISBN:9781137450425
ISBN:1137450428
Physical Description:x, 249 pages.: 22 cm
Publisher:London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
An introduction and overview -- Part I. Disability and Technology in Context -- Between Bodies, Artefacts and Theories: Theorising Disability, Theorising Technology -- I Am Not Sure We've Been Introduced? Disability Meets Technology -- Part II. Understanding Disability, Understanding Technology -- Employing Technology to Good Effect: Technology, Disability and the "Palace" of Paid Work -- Disability, Ageing and Technology: They Think That Throwing a Pendant Alarm at You It Equals Independence -- The Wheelchair: Enabled or Disabled? Houston, We've Had a Problem -- To Augment or Not Augment? That is the Question -- Final Reflection.
Book
