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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792787203321

Autore

Alper Meryl

Titolo

Giving voice : mobile communication, disability, and inequality / / Meryl Alper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-262-33735-5

0-262-33734-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning

Disciplina

362.4/0483

Soggetti

Communication devices for people with disabilities - Social aspects

Voice output communication aids - Social aspects

Assistive computer technology - Social aspects

Sociology of disability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Talking iPads and the partial promise of voice -- What is voice? -- Making a case for iPad cases -- What is a mobile communication device? -- The "fun iPad" and the "communication iPad" -- What is an iPad for? -- Augmenting communication with new media and popular culture -- What does it mean to communicate with an iPad? -- "You've gotta be plugged in" -- How do media shape understandings of the iPad? -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders -- to give voice to the voiceless -- are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.