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Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

Christopher Newell

4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Release: November 23, 2002

ISBN: 0742518434

ISBN 13: 9780742518438

Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

Christopher Newell

4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Release: November 23, 2002

ISBN: 0742518434

ISBN 13: 9780742518438

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