Disabling communications? A capabilities perspective on media access, social inclusion and communication policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11267404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Sourbati (0000-0001-5374-735X, University of Brighton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 571-587 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443712442702 |
| OpenAlex | W2091960459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 30 |
Digital information and communication technologies feature prominently in programmes to promote social inclusion and to implement extensive reform in public service provision across Europe. The transition to an all-digital communications environment and the digital ‘switchover’ of public services bring to the fore a need to rethink access as a goal of public policy. This article probes patterns of internet diffusion among disabled people using capabilities framework and resource-based models of access. The analysis highlights the multi-dimensional character of media access capability as the space to evaluate policies for social inclusion; the relational character of disability as a phenomenon of the interface between personal circumstances and structural disadvantage; a capability failure resulting from a gap in policy commitment to promote universal access for disabled people and other excluded groups; and a requirement for policies sensitive to the need for additional resources to equalize the media access capabilities of these individuals
Business · Digital divide · Inclusion (mineral · Internet privacy · Political science · Public policy · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Telecommunications · The Internet · Universal design · Universal service · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Internet Access and the Potential in Facilitating Online Political Communication of Disabled
The impact of literary works containing characters with disabilities on students' perception and attitudes towards people with disabilities
Interfacing age
Representing Disability, D/deaf, and Mad Artists and Art in Journalism
Social access
Is digital inclusion fighting disability stigma? Opportunities, barriers, and recommendations
Strategic approaches to disability disclosure on social media
Ethopolitical media
Normative foundations of media welfare
The Deepening Divide
Disability Rights and Wrongs
Technology and Social Inclusion
Rationality and Freedom
A capability perspective on impairment, disability and special needs
Theoretical Foundations of Defining the Participatory, Co-Operative, Sustainable Information Society
Development as Freedom
Inequality Reexamined
Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide
Social Exclusion and Information and Communication Technologies
It could be useful, but not for me at the moment’
Capabilities, Lists, and Public Reason
Ouch
The Capability Approach and Disability
Strategies for supporting the online publishing activities of adults with learning difficulties
Capabilities and disability
Disablement in the Informational Age
Beyond the Dilemma of Difference
"Dissecting the "Digital Divide
Digital Distinction
Reconsidering Political and Popular Understandings of the Digital Divide
Women and Human Development
Digital divide research, achievements and shortcomings
| Citations per year | 0.9 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |