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Disability and New Media

Disability and New Media

Ellis, Katie
Kent, Mike

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

General ComputersGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415835925
ISBN13: 9780415835923
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 29 2013
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for individual users to control how the content is displayed has been diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely technical decisions but they are highly political and betray a disturbing trend of ableist assumption that serve to exclude people with disability. It has been argued that the Internet will not be fully accessible until disability is considered a cultural identity in the same way that class, gender and sexuality are. Kent and Ellis build on this notion using more recent Web 2.0 phenomena, social networking sites, virtual worlds and file sharing.

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