Giving voice : mobile communication, disability, and inequality /

How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders -- to give voice to the voiceless -- are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alper, Meryl (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
Colección:John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning.
Temas:
Communication devices for people with disabilities > Social aspects.
Voice output communication aids > Social aspects.
Assistive computer technology > Social aspects.
Sociology of disability.
Appareils de communication pour personnes handicapées > Aspect social.
Aides à la communication avec sortie vocale > Aspect social.
Technologie informatique adaptée > Aspect social.
Handicap > Aspect sociologique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Sociology of disability
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Communications
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Talking iPads and the partial promise of voice
  • What is voice?
  • Making a case for iPad cases
  • What is a mobile communication device?
  • The "fun iPad" and the "communication iPad"
  • What is an iPad for?
  • Augmenting communication with new media and popular culture
  • What does it mean to communicate with an iPad?
  • "You've gotta be plugged in"
  • How do media shape understandings of the iPad?
  • Conclusions.

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