Restricted access : media, disability, and the politics of participation / Elizabeth Ellcessor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellcessor, Elizabeth, author.

Series:

Postmillennial pop.

Postmillennial Pop ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Accessible Web sites for people with disabilities.

Computers and people with disabilities.

Internet access.

People with disabilities.

Discrimination against people with disabilities.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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--usable--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."--Provided by publisher

Contents:

Regulating digital media accessibility : #CaptionTHIS

You already know how to use it : technology, disability, and participation

Transformers : accessibility, style, and adaptation

Content warnings : struggles over meaning, rights, and equality

The net experience : intersectional identities and cultural accessibility

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4798-6578-8

OCLC:

938018332