Digital Disability

Gerard Goggin is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. Christopher Newell is senior lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Tasmania.

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 Technologies of DisabilityChapter 3 Encountering Technology, Media and CultureChapter 4 Disability in its Social ContextPart 5 Networks of DisabilityChapter 6 Holding the Line: Telecommunications and DisabilityChapter 7 Disability on the Digital Margins: Convergence and the Construction of DisabilityPart 8 New Mediations of DisabilityChapter 9 Getting the Picture on Disability: Digital Broadcasting FuturesChapter 10 Blindspots on the InternetChapter 11 Cultures of Digital DisabilityPart 12 Politics of Disabling DigitizationChapter 13 Rewiring Disability

An important contribution to disability studies literature and lays the groundwork for more work on technology and disability issues. Graduate students, disability studies scholars, and those exploring the sociology of digital technology will benefit from this book. Recommended.