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Restricted Access - Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation (Paperback)
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Restricted Access - Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation (Paperback)
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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