Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)
By Meryl Alper.
Description
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 speec...
ISBN(s)
0262533979, 9780262533973
