Disability at the centre of digital inclusion: assessing a new moment in technology and rights

Goggin, Gerard; Ellis, Katie; Hawkins, Wayne

doi:10.1080/22041451.2019.1641061

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“…Philosophers can help with questions about which approach we should take to digital inclusion, and what that might look like (see for example Johnstone 2007). Philosophers can also help explain the ways in which inequality might be increased or decreased by different approaches to digital inclusion (for example, by taking an approach that centres on disabilitysee Goggin et al 2019). Covid-19 increases the need to cautiously achieve digital inclusion accompanied by digital literacy, and changing workplace attitudes and expectations.…”

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Charting just futures for Aotearoa New Zealand: philosophy for and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic

Mulgan

Enright

Grix

et al. 2021

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

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The global pandemic needs to mark a turning point for the peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand. How can we make sure that our culturally diverse nation charts an equitable and sustainable path through and beyond this new world? In a less affluent future, how can we ensure that all New Zealanders have fair access to opportunities? One challenge is to preserve the sense of common purpose so critical to protecting each other in the face of Covid-19. How can we centre what we have learnt about resilience within Māori and wider Pacific communities in our reforms? How can public understanding of Covid-19 science create a platform for the future social valuing of expertise? How can we ensure that the impact of Covid-19 in New Zealand results in a more sustainable, and inclusive workforcefor instance by expanding our perceptions of the value of our workers through promoting digital inclusion? To meet these challenges, we must reimagine our existing traditions of thought, breathing new life into perennial concepts and debates. Our paper indicates some of the ways that Philosophy is central to this collective reimagining, highlighting solutions to be found across our rich philosophical traditions.

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Section: Some New Directionsmentioning

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Charting just futures for Aotearoa New Zealand: philosophy for and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic

Mulgan

Enright

Grix

et al. 2021

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

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“…There are various types of disabilities, and such disabled persons’ interactions with communication and access to information are equally complex. Hence, this study draws from different approaches from different traditions and disciplines; disability studies, inclusion and inequality research ( Goggin et al, 2019 ; Park, 2017 ; Shava, 2017 ) disability and health communication ( Kirklin, 2007a , 2007b ; Lee, 2013 ): disability human rights and activism ( Blanck and Flynn, 2017 ; Goggin, 2014 ; Lawson and Priestley, 2017 ; Shava, 2017 ) and disability media studies ( Ellis et al, 2020 ; Ellis and Kent, 2017 ). There is inevitable interconnection of these approaches in spite of their apparent diverse genealogical origins.…”

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“…Activism for disabled persons’ right to proper media representation and access to information and communication platforms has surged globally since the 1970s. There is an equally burgeoning global research and literature on disability studies and related aspects such as disabilities nexus with media studies, law and human rights, physical architecture and representation ( Goggin, 2014 ; Goggin et al, 2019 ; Hadley and McDonald, 2019 ; Kent, 2019 ; Shava, 2017 ; Watermeyer et al., 2019 ). This article intends to ascertain how Deaf persons and those with hearing impairments accessed information communicated by public health communicators about the coronavirus (also known as the novel COVID 19) on selected mainstream television channels in the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Zimbabwe, in the first 5 months of 2020 when the pandemic dominated the global media platforms.…”

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Fighting for survival: persons with disabilities’ activism for the mediatisation of COVID-19 information

Mhiripiri

Midzi

2020

Media International Australia

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Crises times have an uncanny way of giving salience to struggles for democracy. The new coronavirus – also known as COVID-19 – became a global public health issue that stirred other democratic concerns from persons living with disabilities who wanted access to health information for their survival. People living with various types of disabilities have special communication and information needs, some of which require specific technologies, formats and language. The pandemic got people concerned about their safety and survival. This article contextualises and critiques US, Britain and Zimbabwean activists representing persons living with disabilities’ reactions to the manner their public authorities availed COVID-19 health messages to disabled constituencies via mainstream television. It compares how suitable was televised content from US, Britain, Zimbabwean and New Zealand stations for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, before exploring complaints and lawsuits from the disability constituency pertaining to access to COVID-19 health information.

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“…137 To do so would be to deliver disability inclusion and rights as a genuine priority. 138 Essentially and particularly from the points of view of persons with disabilities, copyright's focus should arguably shift from rights of protection to rights of access. Even before any legislative imposition of this duty, copyright holders can articulate an inclusive culture through incorporating accessibility features at the outset, by way of creating electronic versions to allow for the easy conversion to accessible format copies or their creation of accessible format copies upfront.…”

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Improving Accessibility to Copyright Works for Persons with Print Disabilities in Australia and Singapore

Tan

Peh

2021

IIC

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Substantial time has passed since countries including Australia and Singapore have ratified the Marrakesh Treaty. In this article, we examine the copyright legislation in both countries and identify gaps as well as areas for reform in each country, so as to improve the access of persons with print disabilities to copyright works. What intermediary organisations assisting such persons in both countries have been doing is considered, in order to assess the realities individuals with print disabilities face in trying to access copyright material. In addition to implementing legislation to accommodate persons with print disabilities, we argue that a variety of approaches including adopting available technologies and forging an inclusive culture will be needed so as to constitute an effective longer term strategy to improve accessibility for such persons.

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Disability at the centre of digital inclusion: assessing a new moment in technology and rights

Cited by 34 publications

References 43 publications

Charting just futures for Aotearoa New Zealand: philosophy for and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic

Charting just futures for Aotearoa New Zealand: philosophy for and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic

Fighting for survival: persons with disabilities’ activism for the mediatisation of COVID-19 information

Improving Accessibility to Copyright Works for Persons with Print Disabilities in Australia and Singapore

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