Learning Disabilities and E-Information: Navigating the Electronic Hypermaze (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789731521)

Digital Technology is becoming ever more used by people with learning disabilities for information, entertainment, to socialise and enjoy self-expression. This book explores these important issues, establishing how page design, use of images and other factors facilitate or inhibit information access and information behaviour more generally.

Author: Peter Williams
ISBN-10: 1789731526
ISBN-13: 9781789731521
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2020
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d

About the Author
Peter Williams is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Information Studies, University College London, UK. He has spent the last 25 years investigating the role and impact of digital technology - in particular the Internet - in the health service, media and education. He recently completed a British Academy Fellowship on 'The Digital Lives of People with Learning Disabilities', extending and complementing his PhD thesis which examined web site design for the same cohort. Peter is the author/co-author of three books and over 130 journal articles and book chapters.