Disability and New Media
Disability and New Media by Katie Ellis, published by Routledge in 2011, explores the intersection of digital design and disability. This edition, comprising 172 pages, delves into how advancements in web technologies, including video and animation, can inadvertently trigger disability rather than serve as a solution. The book argues that accessibility is often framed as a technical issue, masking the political implications that can exclude individuals with disabilities from fully engaging with digital content.
Readers will find a critical examination of how social networking sites, virtual worlds, and file-sharing platforms within the Web 2.0 landscape impact the inclusion of people with disabilities. The authors, Kent and Ellis, highlight the need for recognizing disability as a cultural identity, akin to class, gender, and sexuality, to achieve true accessibility. This book presents a nuanced discussion of the evolving web environment and its implications for user interfaces and accessibility choices, making it a significant contribution to the fields of social science and digital media studies.
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Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for individual users to control how the content is displayed has been diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely technical decisions but they are highly political and betray a disturbing trend of ableist assumption that serve to exclude people with disability. It has been argued that the Internet will not be fully accessible until disability is considered a cultural identity in the same way that class, gender and sexuality are. Kent and Ellis build on this notion using more recent Web 2.0 phenomena, social networking sites, virtual worlds and file sharing.
Many of the studies on disability and the web have focused on the early web, prior to the development of social networking applications such as Facebook, YouTube and Second Life. This book discusses an array of such applications that have grown within and alongside Web 2.0, and analyzes how they both prevent and embrace the inclusion of people with disability.
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