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Restricted Access - Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation (Hardcover)
Series: Postmillennial Pop
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How reconsidering digital media and participatory cultures from the
standpoint of disability allows for a full understanding of
accessibility. While digital media can offer many opportunities for
civic and cultural participation, this technology is not equally
easy for everyone to use. Hardware, software, and cultural
expectations combine to make some technologies an easier fit for
some bodies than for others. A YouTube video without closed
captions or a social network site that is incompatible with a
screen reader can restrict the access of users who are hard of
hearing or visually impaired. Often, people with disabilities
require accommodation, assistive technologies, or other forms of
aid to make digital media accessible—useable—for them.
Restricted Access investigates digital media accessibility—the
processes by which media is made usable by people with particular
needs—and argues for the necessity of conceptualizing access in a
way that will enable greater participation in all forms of mediated
culture. Drawing on disability and cultural studies, Elizabeth
Ellcessor uses an interrogatory framework based around issues of
regulation, use, content, form, and experience to examine
contemporary digital media. Through interviews with policy makers
and accessibility professionals, popular culture and archival
materials, and an ethnographic study of internet use by people with
disabilities, Ellcessor reveals the assumptions that undergird
contemporary technologies and participatory cultures. Restricted
Access makes the crucial point that if digital media open up
opportunities for individuals to create and participate, but that
technology only facilitates the participation of those who are
already privileged, then its progressive potential remains
unrealized. Engagingly written with powerful examples, Ellcessor
demonstrates the importance of alternate uses, marginalized voices,
and invisible innovations in the context of disability identities
to push us to rethink digital media accessibility.
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Imprint: |
New York University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Postmillennial Pop |
Release date: |
March 2016 |
Authors: |
Elizabeth Ellcessor
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Dimensions: |
229 x 153 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4798-1380-3 |
Categories: |
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Social sciences >
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Law >
General
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LSN: |
1-4798-1380-X |
Barcode: |
9781479813803 |
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