Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communicationssuch as the Internet, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcastinghave created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers, or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and the disabled themselves.

Gerard Goggin is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. Christopher Newell is senior lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Tasmania.

Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Technologies of DisabilityChapter 3 Encountering Technology, Media and CultureChapter 4 Disability in its Social ContextChapter 5 Networks of DisabilityChapter 6 Holding the Line: Telecommunications and DisabilityChapter 7 Disability on the Digital Margins: Convergence and the Construction of DisabilityChapter 8 New Mediations of DisabilityChapter 9 Getting the Picture on Disability: Digital Broadcasting FuturesChapter 10 Blindspots on the InternetChapter 11 Cultures of Digital DisabilityChapter 12 Politics of Disabling DigitizationChapter 13 Rewiring Disability