Disability and Technology: An Interdisciplinary and International Approach

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.

• | Author: Alan Roulstone
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jun 24, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 259 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 113745041X
• | ISBN-13: 9781137450418