Gerard Goggin Christopher Newell - Final Paper.PDF
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A great deal has been written regarding the internet in relation to the key categories of subjectivity, identity and body. Curiously, such studies have rarely, if any, engaged with the matter of disability. This eclipse of disability is all the more puzzling given that disability plays a rhetorically central function in important texts in internet studies. Interestingly, disability is often mentioned in another context—discussions of web design. We seek to provide an alternative history of the internet by acknowledging and exploring the contested space—accessibility for people with disability. As a multifaceted theoretical, political and personal space, disability challenges the conceptual bases of internet studies and provokes a rethinking of internet history. The theoretical question is how future visions of the internet—especially in its broadband phase—can engage with disability studies. The political question is whether it will.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002