Giving voice : mobile communication, disability, and inequality
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 abou...
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Cambridge, Mass
MIT Press
2017
The MIT Press |
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| Edícia: | The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning |
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| Abstract | 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 these assumptions by looking closely at one such case-the use of the Apple iPad and mobile app Proloquo2Go, which converts icons and text into synthetic speech, by children with disabilities (including autism and cerebral palsy) and their families. She finds that despite claims to empowerment, the hardware and software are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities. Views of technology as a great equalizer, she illustrates, rarely account for all the ways that culture, law, policy, and even technology itself can reinforce disparity, particularly for those with disabilities.Alper explores, among other things, alternative understandings of voice, the surprising sociotechnical importance of the iPad case, and convergences and divergences in the lives of parents across class. She shows that working-class and low-income parents understand the app and other communication technologies differently from upper- and middle-class parents, and that the institutional ecosystem reflects a bias toward those more privileged.Handing someone a talking tablet computer does not in itself give that person a voice. Alper finds that the ability to mobilize social, economic, and cultural capital shapes the extent to which individuals can not only speak but be heard. |
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| AbstractList | How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders -- to give voice to the voiceless -- are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities. 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 these assumptions by looking closely at one such case-the use of the Apple iPad and mobile app Proloquo2Go, which converts icons and text into synthetic speech, by children with disabilities (including autism and cerebral palsy) and their families. She finds that despite claims to empowerment, the hardware and software are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities. Views of technology as a great equalizer, she illustrates, rarely account for all the ways that culture, law, policy, and even technology itself can reinforce disparity, particularly for those with disabilities.Alper explores, among other things, alternative understandings of voice, the surprising sociotechnical importance of the iPad case, and convergences and divergences in the lives of parents across class. She shows that working-class and low-income parents understand the app and other communication technologies differently from upper- and middle-class parents, and that the institutional ecosystem reflects a bias toward those more privileged.Handing someone a talking tablet computer does not in itself give that person a voice. Alper finds that the ability to mobilize social, economic, and cultural capital shapes the extent to which individuals can not only speak but be heard. |
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| SubjectTerms | Assistive computer technology - Social aspects Communication devices for people with disabilities -- Social aspects Sociology of disability Voice output communication aids -- Social aspects |
| TableOfContents | Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Broken Records -- Cultural Capital -- Reconsidering Assistive Technology -- Convergence of Mobile Media and AAC Devices -- Parenting Digital Youth with Disabilities -- Digital Media and Disability -- Intersectionality and Distinguishing Parents -- Giving Voice -- Overview of the Chapters -- Conclusion -- 2 Talking iPads and the Partial Promise of Voice: What Is Voice? -- Giving Voice to Synthetic Speech -- The Voices of Proloquo2Go -- A Partial Promise of Voice -- Voice as Embodied -- Voice as Performative -- Voice as Political -- A Partial Promise of Voice Output Communication Aids -- Conclusion -- 3 Making a Case for iPad Cases: What Is a Mobile Communication Device? -- Theorizing Mobile Accessories and Cases -- How Cases Matter -- Case Studies -- Grasping the Encased, Unencased, and Reencased -- Conclusion -- 4 The "Fun iPad" and the "Communication iPad": What Is an iPad For? -- Demographics of iPad Ownership -- Fun and Communication -- Negotiating Fun and Communication On the Go -- Entertainment and Education -- Locking in Communication and Locking out Fun -- Learning to Speak the "Language" -- Conclusion -- 5 Augmenting Communication with New Media and Popular Culture: What Does It Mean to Communicate with an iPad? -- Communicating Deficiency -- Deficit Model of Children and Popular Culture -- Communicating through Media Use -- Toward an Asset Model of Disabled Children's Media Use -- Conclusion -- 6 "You've Gotta Be Plugged In": How Do Media Shape Understandings of the iPad? -- Rendering Parenting through Disability Media Worlds -- Information Seeking -- Participation in Online Communities -- Information and Inspiration from Ordinary People in the Media -- Dissociation with Famous Figures -- Mass Media and the Cultural Language of Special Education -- Conclusion 7 Conclusion -- Similarities, Differences, and Intersectionality -- Recognizing Privilege -- Implications and Recommendations -- Future Research -- Conclusion -- Methods -- Participants -- Recruitment -- Study Design -- Analysis -- Research Limitations -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Methods -- Bibliography -- Index |
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