Ferri, Delia, Giannoumis, Anthony and O'Sullivan, Charles Edward (2015) Fostering accessible technology and sculpting an inclusive market through regulation. International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 29 (2-3). pp. 81-87. ISSN 1360-0869
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Abstract
Technology has attracted an increasing level of attention within disability studies. Even
though an ambivalent attitude towards technological innovation still remains (Sheldon
2003; Macdonald and Clayton 2013), several scholars appreciate that advances in technology
have enabled more persons with disabilities than ever before to actively participate in
society (Halvorsen 2010; Blanck 2014; Giannoumis 2014).
Disability studies’ scepticism towards technology derives from the fear that technology
becomes another way to ‘fix’ impairments, perpetuating and reinforcing the outdated
medical approach to disability, which identified disability with impaired invalid bodies
that needed to be cured, helped, assisted, ‘supplemented’ (ex pluribus Barnes and Mercer
2010; Oliver and Barnes 2012). In addition, some scholars see technology as another
impairing barrier, rather than a facilitator or a tool to overcome existing obstacles (Jaeger
2013; Blanck 2014). Goggin and Newell (2003, 131 ff.), for example, affirm that digital
technologies, have created a system of exclusion, further isolating people with disabilities.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | accessible technology; inclusive market; regulation; disability studies; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Law |
Item ID: | 8904 |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13600869.2015.1055666 |
Depositing User: | Delia Ferri |
Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2017 14:13 |
Journal or Publication Title: | International Review of Law, Computers & Technology |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/8904 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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