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Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture) - Softcover

Goggin, Gerard

 
9780742518445: Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Gerard Goggin is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. Christopher Newell is senior lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Tasmania.

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