Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality
(Part of the The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning Series and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning Series)
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How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders--to give voice to the voiceless--are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities. Mobile technologies are often hailed as a way to "give voice to the voiceless." Behind the praise, though, are beliefs about technology as a gateway to opportunity and voice as a metaphor for agency and self-representation. In Giving Voice, Meryl Alper explores...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262533979
ISBN13:9780262533973
Release Date:January 2017
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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