Disability and Technology : An Interdisciplinary and International Approach / by Alan Roulstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roulstone, Alan, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Culture.

Mass media.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Communication.

Sociology of the Body.

Sociology of Culture.

Media Sociology.

Philosophy of Technology.

Media and Communication.

Local Subjects:

Sociology of the Body.

Sociology of Culture.

Media Sociology.

Philosophy of Technology.

Media and Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

This book brings together formally disparate literatures and debates on disability and technology in a way that captures the complex interplay between the two. Drawing on disability studies, technology studies and clinical studies, the book argues that interdisciplinary insights together provide a more nuanced and less stylized picture of the benefits and barriers in disability and technology. Drawing on a breadth of empirical studies from across the globe, a picture emerges of the complex and multi-directional interplay of technology and disability. Technology is neither inherently enabling or disabling but fundamentally shaped by the social dynamics that shape their design, use and impact. Alan Roulstone is Professor of Disability Studies at the University Leeds, UK. He is author of twelve books and over sixty journal articles and book chapters. His interests include disability, technology, policy, exclusion, inclusion, andthe politics of hate crime. Alan has completed a range of internationally recognised research and with policy, practice, and activist constituencies.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Disability and Technology in Context

Chapter 1. Between Bodies, Artefacts and Theories: Theorising Disability, Theorising Technology

Chapter 2. I Am Not Sure We've Been Introduced? Disability Meets Technology

Part II. Understanding Disability, Understanding Technology

Chapter 3. Employing Technology to Good Effect: Technology, Disability and the 'Palace'

Chapter 4. Disability, Ageing and Technology: They Think That By Throwing a Pendant Alarm at You It Equals Independence

Chapter 5. The Wheelchair: Enabled or Disabled? Houston, We've Had a Problem

Chapter 6. To Augment or Not Augment? That is the Question: From Cochlear Implants to Exoskeletons

Final Reflection.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137450425

1137450428