Giving voice : mobile communication, disability, and inequality / / Meryl Alper
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| Autore: |
Alper Meryl
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| Titolo: |
Giving voice : mobile communication, disability, and inequality / / Meryl Alper
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 362.4/0483 |
| Soggetto topico: | Communication devices for people with disabilities - Social aspects |
| Voice output communication aids - Social aspects | |
| Assistive computer technology - Social aspects | |
| Sociology of disability | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General |
| INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications | |
| SOCIAL SCIENCES/Communications | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Giving voice |
| ISBN: | 0-262-33735-5 |
| 0-262-33734-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826854203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning