Disability and Technology : Key Papers from Disability & Society (Paperback)

Series Editor’s Preface Michele Moore Part I: Framing the relationship between disability and technology 1. Communications technology - empowerment or disempowerment? Patricia Thornton 2. In whose service? Technology, care and disabled people: The case for a disability politics perspective Liz Johnsonand Eileen Moxon 3. Information and communication technologies and the opportunities of disabled persons in the Swedish labour market Dimitris Michailakis 4. Enacting disability: how can science and technology studies inform disability studies? Vasilis Galis Part II: Empirical studies of technology and reduction of disabling barriers 5. The use, role and application of advanced technology in the lives of disabled people in the UK Jennifer Harris 6. A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China Baorong Guo, John C. Bricoutand Jin Huang 7. Increases in wheelchair use and perceptions of disablement Bob Sapey, John Stewartand Glenis Donaldson 8. Back to the future, disability and the digital divide Stephen J. Macdonaldand John Clayton Part III: Moral and social tensions between disability and technology 9. Disability, identity and disclosure in the online dating environment Natasha Saltes 10. ‘I know, I can, I will try’: Youths and adults with intellectual disabilities in Sweden using information and communication technology in their everyday life Rebecka Naslundand Asa Gardelli 11. Implants and ethnocide: Learning from the cochlear implant controversy Robert Sparrow 12. Cyborg anxiety: Oscar Pistorius and the boundaries of what it means to be human Leslie Swartzand Brian Watermeyer Conclusion Alan Roulstone