Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780742518438)

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.

Author: Gerard Goggin, Christopher Newell
ISBN-10: 0742518434
ISBN-13: 9780742518438
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2002
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.92w x 0.67d