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Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation

 
Elizabeth Ellcessor (Author)
Synopsis

Digital media offers many opportunities for civic and cultural participation. This technology is not equally easy for everyone to use. Often, people with disabilities require accommodation, assistive technologies, or other forms of aid to make digital media accessible for them, but are unable to obtain them.

Restricted Access investigates digital media accessibility—the processes by which media is made usable by people with specific needs—and argues for creating access to enable greater participation in all forms of mediated culture. It argues that if digital media leads to opportunities for individuals to create and participate, but the technology only facilitates the participation of the privileged, then its progressive potential remains unrealized. The book demonstrates the importance of alternate uses, marginalized voices, and invisible innovations in the context of disability identities and asks for a rethink on digital media accessibility.

Contents: 1. Introduction: Interrogating and Integrating Access. 2. Regulating Digital Media Accessibility: Caption. 3. You Already Know How to Use It: Technology, Disability, and Participation. 4. Transformers: Accessibility, Style, and Adaptation. 5. Content Warnings: Struggles over Meaning, Rights, and Equality. 6. The Net Experience: Intersectional Identities and Cultural Accessibility. 7. Conclusion: Collaborative Futures Appendix: Ethnographic Research, Interviews, and Selected Blogs. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Bibliographic information

Title Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation
Format Hardcover
Date published: 31.12.2017
Edition 1st.ed.
Language: English
isbn 9789352800308
length 264p.