Digital Disability : The Social Construction of Disability in New Media

Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide.

Interactive digital communications - such as the Internet, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting - have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues.

This analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers and the disabled themselves.