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



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Autore: Alper Meryl Visualizza persona
Titolo: Giving voice : mobile communication, disability, and inequality / / Meryl Alper Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-262-33735-5
0-262-33734-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792787203321
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Serie: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning