Digital Disability The Social Construction of Disability in New Media
, by Goggin, Gerard; Newell, ChristopherNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780742518438 | 0742518434
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/23/2002
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 Interact, 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.