Disability and mobile Internet

Goggin, Gerard

doi:10.5210/fm.v20i9.6171

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“…One means PWD use to deal with such isolation and loneliness is information and communication technologies (ICTs; Goggin, 2015 ). The internet allows PWD to form and maintain relationships and community in ways that may not be possible offline.…”

Section: Disability Isolation and The Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Piercing the Pandemic Social Bubble: Disability and Social Media Use About COVID-19

Dobransky

Hargittai

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing stay-at-home orders caused tremendous restrictions in social contacts, which led to increasing use of the internet for daily tasks and social interactions. As prior research has established, people with disabilities (PWD) had already been using the internet for such purposes prior to the pandemic, especially for health-related content. Through a national survey administered during the first few weeks of the pandemic in the United States, we explore how people with and without disabilities used social media to exchange information and engage in activities about COVID-19. Findings reveal that PWD were more engaged with information about COVID-19 than those without disabilities, even when controlling for sociodemographics and internet experiences and skills. These differences are especially pronounced concerning more active engagement such as sharing information, interacting, and supporting others on social media. Although the content is about a health crisis in which PWD are disproportionately vulnerable, these effects largely remain when we enter controls for health status, belonging to high-risk groups for COVID-19, and personal experiences with COVID-19. Findings highlight the benefits of universal design, both for PWD specifically, and for society more broadly, as the general population ramps up use of tools long fought for and used by PWD.

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Section: Disability Isolation and The Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Piercing the Pandemic Social Bubble: Disability and Social Media Use About COVID-19

Dobransky

Hargittai

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Drawing from his work on disability and mobile media (Goggin 2011, 2015), Gerard Goggin’s contribution “Disability and haptic mobile media” uses the formulation of the smartphone as a type of haptic media to show how considerations of disability and visual impairment informed refinements to the design of Apple’s iPhone. The remediation of the telephone by the smartphone brought with it a move away from buttons and toward touchscreens, causing a navigational challenge for visually impaired users accustomed to the data-rich physicality of the button.…”

Section: Hms: Where Next?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Haptic media studies

Parisi

Paterson

Archer

2017

New Media & Society

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Editors' introduction: haptic media studies We are grateful for the opportunity to share with you eight exceptional pieces that, we hope, help lay the groundwork for Haptic Media Studies (HMS). As co-editors, each of us has made touch the centerpiece of our research programs, exploring its manifestation in media, technology, philosophy, culture, and history. Paterson's The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects, and Technologies (Berg, 2007) remains an influential work that serves as a cornerstone for touch-related studies across a wide range of fields, and other publications explore haptics in terms of technology, media, and methodologies (e.g. Paterson 2006, 2009). His more recent Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision, and Touch after Descartes (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), by exploring the conceptual and technological histories of sensory substitution, traces the complex entanglement of vision and touch in communicative practice. Parisi's publications on tactility, including his forthcoming Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and his work on the tactile aspects of videogame interfaces (e.g. Parisi, 2008, 2014), situate contemporary haptic human-computer interfaces in a macrohistorical framework, linking them back to prior technological constructions of touch in medical electricity, psychophysics, and cybernetics. Archer's work investigates cultural processes of tactile education around digital media, where users are asked to acclimate themselves to new habits of touching and navigating digital interfaces.

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“…The development of information and communication technology (ICT) has had the unintended effect of producing inequalities between groups of people that have access to and use of ICT and others (Easton, 2013a;Ellis & Kent, 2015b;Goggin, 2015;Helsper, 2008;Jaeger, 2015;Macdonald & Clayton, 2013;Vicente & Lopez, 2010;Watling, 2011;Witte & Mannon, 2010). These digital divides have emerged between younger and older people, between men and women, between highand low-income populations, between different geographic regions, and between persons with and without disabilities.…”

Section: Implementing Web Accessibility Policy: Case Studies Of the United Kingdom Norway And The United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to the editors, the special issue incorporates scholars from a variety of fields and the articles examine web accessibility in relation to human rights and principles of social justice (Jaeger, 2015), standardization processes and outputs (Kreps & Goff, 2015), assistive technology (Brown & Hollier, 2015), audit and certification processes (Giannoumis, 2015), educational technology (Chen, Sanderson, Kessel, & Królak, 2015;D. Wood, 2015), usability (Ellcessor, 2015), and consumer technologies (Ellis & Kent, 2015a;Goggin, 2015). Taken together, the articles show that web accessibility represents a multidimensional outcome that incorporates policy processes involved in implementing human rights, creating measuring technical criteria, providing access to assistive technologies, evaluating and verifying compliance, and ensuring that different applications of ICT are accessible and usable for persons with disabilities.…”

Section: Web Accessibility As An Interdisciplinary Phenomenamentioning

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Auditing Web accessibility: The role of interest organizations in promoting compliance through certification

Giannoumis

2015

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Previous research on Web accessibility policy has focused on the application of anti-discrimination policies to the Web and has yet to explore fully, the mediators to policy implementation and compliance. Policy analyses and semi-structured interviews with 34 participants in the United Kingdom and United States demonstrate that interest organizations, including non-profit and for-profit organizations, support the implementation of anti-discrimination policies by providing audit and certification services. First, performance certification demonstrates the quality of a Web site, and interest organizations have developed certification initiatives based on international performance standards developed by the private sector. Second, professional certification demonstrates the quality of an individual’s knowledge and experience, yet despite the absence of educational standards, interest organizations offer professional certification. Third, procedural certification demonstrates the quality of organizational processes, yet despite the development of a national procedural standard, interest organizations do not offer procedural certification. This paper concludes by offering recommendations for enhancing the use of certification to achieve Web accessibility and provides suggestions for future research.

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Disability and mobile Internet

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Piercing the Pandemic Social Bubble: Disability and Social Media Use About COVID-19

Piercing the Pandemic Social Bubble: Disability and Social Media Use About COVID-19

Haptic media studies

Auditing Web accessibility: The role of interest organizations in promoting compliance through certification

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