Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality

by Meryl Alper

Book Overview

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

Mobile technologies are often hailed as a way to "give voice to the voiceless." Behind the praise, though, are beliefs about technology as a gateway to opportunity and voice as a metaphor for agency and self-representation. In Giving Voice, Meryl Alper explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262533979
• ISBN13: 9780262533973
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher