Kuansong Victor Zhuang
Biographic Data
| ID | 316698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kuansong Victor Zhuang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kuansong Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhuang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHUANG K V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8459-785X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Governing generative AI for disability and inclusion
The potential of generative AI for digital accessibility solutions that can benefit the lives of disabled people and enable their participation in society cannot be understated. Against this new world of possibilities, concerns of disability bias in AI have already been highlighted, specifically in how disability data is always-already excluded from datasets and how disability is not considered within the development of such technologies. Such co…
Disability, voice, and mobile AI
In this paper, we examine the developments at the crossroads of mobile phones and AI––mobile AI––by highlighting and considering their implications for the significant, cross-cutting, and highly intersectional area of disability. As we shall discuss, disability is remarkably prominent in how mobile AI is imagined and deployed. Several kinds of mobile AI explicitly claim to provide innovations that will improve the lives of disabled people. Such c…
Big Data Discourses| Toward Disability Data Justice: A Critical Discussion of Disability and Big Data Discourses
The terms of inclusion/exclusion of disability in big data are ultimately connected to the kinds of discourses that inform disability in society. Since the rise of big data as a phenomenon, disability’s absence in it, especially in the data formations that underpin artificial intelligence and machine learning, is notable. However, nowhere are data sets and disability more connected than in disability censuses—underscored by the efforts of the Was…
Election information accessibility for disabled people during Singapore’s 2025 general election
Reorienting Disability AI Imaginaries
This article looks at an important but as-yet underexplored aspect of artificial intelligence (AI) imaginaries in digital Asiascapes: disability. It performs a preliminary and exploratory analysis of disability in Asian AI imaginaries, revealing tensions and issues and raising questions for future research, policy consideration, and debate. It argues, first, that disability is an important component of AI imaginaries in Asia, in that AI imaginari…
Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines
Producing Value From Injury: Dashcam Platforms, Accidents, and Gig Work
This article uses the dashboard camera (commonly, dashcam) to consider platformed logics of injury. Installed in cars, dashcams are often purposed to arbitrate accidents. In Singapore, however, dashcams have fostered huge communities on social media, who regularly post and comment on dashcam footage. Furthermore, due to the nature of their work, food delivery riders also constitute common subjects of these footages. The article explores these rel…
Moving, Thinking, and Representing the Autistic Mind/Body: Disability Representation in Extraordinary Attorney Woo
When released, the Korean drama Extraordinary Attorney Woo (ENA, 2022), chronicling the adventures of Woo Young-woo, an autistic lawyer played by neurotypical actor Park Eun-bin, quickly became a global hit. Its positive representations of disability, spotlighting the discrimination faced by autistic individuals, was widely heralded as departing from previously negative stereotypes. Amid a global move toward inclusion driven by the disability rig…
New possibilities or problems for disability and inclusion? The case of AI and ADMs across work
In this paper, we examine new and emerging uses of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision making (ADM) across various aspects of work, namely hiring, job redesign, and team formation, and their impact on disabled people. Building on disability as both a generative form of embodiment and knowledge, we consider how AI and ADMs can enable and empower disabled people for work, but also their inherent problems and contradictions. We ask t…
Towards a Critical Pedagogy for Inclusion: Disability-led Arts and its Radical Promise in Singapore
The inclusion of disabled people in Singapore (and globally) is gaining traction given the dominance of transnational instruments like the United Nations Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities. Yet, in the absence of disability rights legislation, inclusion in Singapore has taken on markedly different forms, based on ablenationalist notions of productivity and meritocracy. Situated amidst these global and national frameworks of so…
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore
In this article we discuss the entanglement of apps, mobilities, and migration – and the way that apps work as migrant infrastructure in a Covid context. We develop our analysis through a case study of Singapore's response to the pandemic during 2020–22, centred on the control of migrant workers through the use of Covid apps. We argue that Covid apps enact ‘managed inequality’ in blatant as well as subtle ways for migrants and the societies in wh…
Disabling Lee Kuan Yew and the Singapore Story: The Problematic Logics of Inclusion in Contemporary Singapore
Representations of Lee since his passing have focused on discussing the role that he played in building Singapore and the politics of remembering him. This article takes a different approach, underpinned by developments towards the incorporation of disabled people in life both in Singapore and internationally. Embracing disability as a valid form of embodiment as well as an important source of critical knowledge, this article uses a disability an…
The Included: Disability-Led Arts within Inclusion in Singapore
A culture of inclusion pervades Singapore, one where disabled bodies are marked and folded into life by the state and its associated agencies. The effect of this inclusion has been the production of a new figure of disability, or what I call the included. In the midst of this inclusion, the disabled-led production of And Suddenly I Disappear: The Singapore ‘d’ Monologues in May 2018 marks a key milestone. The article considers the deployment of d…
Inclusion in Singapore: A social model analysis of disability policy
A rhetoric of inclusion and increased social spending within a global context of austerity cuts has dominated disability policies in Singapore today. However, there is a lack of academic works that take a critical disability studies view towards the analysis of disability in Singapore. This work aims to address this gap by adopting a critical social model-led analysis of disability policies in Singapore. The article examines the rhetoric of inclu…
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore
In this article we discuss the entanglement of apps, mobilities, and migration – and the way that apps work as migrant infrastructure in a Covid context. We develop our analysis through a case study of Singapore's response to the pandemic during 2020–22, centred on the control of migrant workers through the use of Covid apps. We argue that Covid apps enact ‘managed inequality’ in blatant as well as subtle ways for migrants and the societies in wh…
Inclusion in Singapore: A social model analysis of disability policy
A rhetoric of inclusion and increased social spending within a global context of austerity cuts has dominated disability policies in Singapore today. However, there is a lack of academic works that take a critical disability studies view towards the analysis of disability in Singapore. This work aims to address this gap by adopting a critical social model-led analysis of disability policies in Singapore. The article examines the rhetoric of inclu…
Disabling Lee Kuan Yew and the Singapore Story: The Problematic Logics of Inclusion in Contemporary Singapore
Representations of Lee since his passing have focused on discussing the role that he played in building Singapore and the politics of remembering him. This article takes a different approach, underpinned by developments towards the incorporation of disabled people in life both in Singapore and internationally. Embracing disability as a valid form of embodiment as well as an important source of critical knowledge, this article uses a disability an…
Inclusion in Singapore: A social model analysis of disability policy
A rhetoric of inclusion and increased social spending within a global context of austerity cuts has dominated disability policies in Singapore today. However, there is a lack of academic works that take a critical disability studies view towards the analysis of disability in Singapore. This work aims to address this gap by adopting a critical social model-led analysis of disability policies in Singapore. The article examines the rhetoric of inclu…
The Included: Disability-Led Arts within Inclusion in Singapore
A culture of inclusion pervades Singapore, one where disabled bodies are marked and folded into life by the state and its associated agencies. The effect of this inclusion has been the production of a new figure of disability, or what I call the included. In the midst of this inclusion, the disabled-led production of And Suddenly I Disappear: The Singapore ‘d’ Monologues in May 2018 marks a key milestone. The article considers the deployment of d…
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore
In this article we discuss the entanglement of apps, mobilities, and migration – and the way that apps work as migrant infrastructure in a Covid context. We develop our analysis through a case study of Singapore's response to the pandemic during 2020–22, centred on the control of migrant workers through the use of Covid apps. We argue that Covid apps enact ‘managed inequality’ in blatant as well as subtle ways for migrants and the societies in wh…
Disabling Lee Kuan Yew and the Singapore Story: The Problematic Logics of Inclusion in Contemporary Singapore
Representations of Lee since his passing have focused on discussing the role that he played in building Singapore and the politics of remembering him. This article takes a different approach, underpinned by developments towards the incorporation of disabled people in life both in Singapore and internationally. Embracing disability as a valid form of embodiment as well as an important source of critical knowledge, this article uses a disability an…
Moving, Thinking, and Representing the Autistic Mind/Body: Disability Representation in Extraordinary Attorney Woo
When released, the Korean drama Extraordinary Attorney Woo (ENA, 2022), chronicling the adventures of Woo Young-woo, an autistic lawyer played by neurotypical actor Park Eun-bin, quickly became a global hit. Its positive representations of disability, spotlighting the discrimination faced by autistic individuals, was widely heralded as departing from previously negative stereotypes. Amid a global move toward inclusion driven by the disability rig…
New possibilities or problems for disability and inclusion? The case of AI and ADMs across work
In this paper, we examine new and emerging uses of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision making (ADM) across various aspects of work, namely hiring, job redesign, and team formation, and their impact on disabled people. Building on disability as both a generative form of embodiment and knowledge, we consider how AI and ADMs can enable and empower disabled people for work, but also their inherent problems and contradictions. We ask t…
Towards a Critical Pedagogy for Inclusion: Disability-led Arts and its Radical Promise in Singapore
The inclusion of disabled people in Singapore (and globally) is gaining traction given the dominance of transnational instruments like the United Nations Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities. Yet, in the absence of disability rights legislation, inclusion in Singapore has taken on markedly different forms, based on ablenationalist notions of productivity and meritocracy. Situated amidst these global and national frameworks of so…
Election information accessibility for disabled people during Singapore’s 2025 general election
Reorienting Disability AI Imaginaries
This article looks at an important but as-yet underexplored aspect of artificial intelligence (AI) imaginaries in digital Asiascapes: disability. It performs a preliminary and exploratory analysis of disability in Asian AI imaginaries, revealing tensions and issues and raising questions for future research, policy consideration, and debate. It argues, first, that disability is an important component of AI imaginaries in Asia, in that AI imaginari…
Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines
Producing Value From Injury: Dashcam Platforms, Accidents, and Gig Work
This article uses the dashboard camera (commonly, dashcam) to consider platformed logics of injury. Installed in cars, dashcams are often purposed to arbitrate accidents. In Singapore, however, dashcams have fostered huge communities on social media, who regularly post and comment on dashcam footage. Furthermore, due to the nature of their work, food delivery riders also constitute common subjects of these footages. The article explores these rel…
Governing generative AI for disability and inclusion
The potential of generative AI for digital accessibility solutions that can benefit the lives of disabled people and enable their participation in society cannot be understated. Against this new world of possibilities, concerns of disability bias in AI have already been highlighted, specifically in how disability data is always-already excluded from datasets and how disability is not considered within the development of such technologies. Such co…
Disability, voice, and mobile AI
In this paper, we examine the developments at the crossroads of mobile phones and AI––mobile AI––by highlighting and considering their implications for the significant, cross-cutting, and highly intersectional area of disability. As we shall discuss, disability is remarkably prominent in how mobile AI is imagined and deployed. Several kinds of mobile AI explicitly claim to provide innovations that will improve the lives of disabled people. Such c…
Big Data Discourses| Toward Disability Data Justice: A Critical Discussion of Disability and Big Data Discourses
The terms of inclusion/exclusion of disability in big data are ultimately connected to the kinds of discourses that inform disability in society. Since the rise of big data as a phenomenon, disability’s absence in it, especially in the data formations that underpin artificial intelligence and machine learning, is notable. However, nowhere are data sets and disability more connected than in disability censuses—underscored by the efforts of the Was…
Sociology (7 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (6 works) · Disability studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works)