Disability and Technology: An Interdisciplinary and International Approach

✍ Scribed by Alan Roulstone (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
An Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Between Bodies, Artefacts and Theories: Theorising Disability, Theorising Technology....Pages 45-85
I’m Not Sure We’ve Been Introduced: Disability Meets Technology....Pages 87-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Employing Technology to Good Effect: Technology, Disability and the ‘Palace’ of Paid Work....Pages 125-152
Disability, Ageing and Technology: They Think that Throwing a Pendant Alarm at You Equals Independence....Pages 153-179
The Wheelchair: Enabled or Disabled? Houston, We’ve Had a Problem....Pages 181-205
To Augment or Not to Augment? That is the Question....Pages 207-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-249

✦ Subjects

Sociology of the Body;Sociology of Culture;Media Sociology;Philosophy of Technology;Media and Communication