Giving voice : mobile communication, disability, and inequality

Giving voice : mobile communication, disability, and inequality / Meryl Alper.

How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders -- to give voice to the voiceless -- are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alper, Meryl (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2017]
Series:	John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning.
Subjects:	Communication devices for people with disabilities > Social aspects. Voice output communication aids > Social aspects. Assistive computer technology > Social aspects. Sociology of disability. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare. Sociology of disability
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Talking iPads and the partial promise of voice
What is voice?
Making a case for iPad cases
What is a mobile communication device?
The "fun iPad" and the "communication iPad"
What is an iPad for?
Augmenting communication with new media and popular culture
What does it mean to communicate with an iPad?
"You've gotta be plugged in"
How do media shape understandings of the iPad?
Conclusions.