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Giving voice : mobile communication, disability, and inequality / Meryl Alper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alper, Meryl, author.
- Series:
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication devices for people with disabilities--Social aspects.
- Communication devices for people with disabilities.
- Voice output communication aids--Social aspects.
- Voice output communication aids.
- Assistive computer technology--Social aspects.
- Assistive computer technology.
- Sociology of disability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders -- to give voice to the voiceless -- are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-33735-5
- 0-262-33734-7
- OCLC:
- 981764916
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