Routledge International Handbook of Disability Studies and the New Digital Society

Kristofer Hansson is a lecturer at the Department of Social Work, Malmö University and holds an Associate Professorship in Ethnology. His research focuses on children and young people living with long-term sickness and disability. Hansson is also associated with Malmö University’s Sustainable Digitalization Research Centre (SDRC) and K2, the National Knowledge Centre for Collective Mobility. He is the editor of Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities (Routledge, 2021).

"This book explores digitalization as a site of ambivalence and tension, examining the phenomenon through a critical disability perspective. Its nuanced and thoughtful approach makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature. I warmly recommend this book for the way it deepens our understanding of contemporary society."Hisayo Katsui, Professor of Disability Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland"An incredibly valuable, impressively straightforward and balanced handbook, offering insight and commitment to a wide range of issues at the intersection of disability and the new digital society. Bringing together critical scholarship and rich empirical perspectives, it illuminates both the opportunities and inequalities of digital transformation. An essential resource for researchers, practitioners, policymakers and students concerned with accessibility, active digital citizenship and inclusive futures."Martin Molin, Professor of Social Work, University West, Sweden"Through the lens of disability studies, this fascinating Handbook draws attention to the uneven benefits of digital technologies. While acknowledging that digital technologies can open up opportunities for participation it warns about digital exclusion and argues for inclusive and sustainable digital futures. This Handbook has urgent messages for those interested in the intersection of disability and digitalisation. A must read."Rannveig Traustadóttir, Professor Emerita, Centre for Disability Studies, University of Iceland"This Handbook brings together a rich and wide-ranging collection of international scholarship, offering theorising and insight into the emerging digital society. It represents a resource for those in disability studies, technology design, or the social sciences. Grounded in rights-based and disability studies perspectives, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates factors shaping inclusivity within our rapidly evolving digital world."Darren Chadwick, Professor of Applied Social & Community Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

• Introduction Part 1: Reframing Disability in a Digital Society 1.Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in the Digital Society: Towards more human-oriented digital advancements 2.Digital ability expectations: Reframing inequalities and (in)visibilities in the new digital society 3.The Disempowering Algorithm: Forced Digital and the Marginalisation of Women from the Global South 4.AI and the normative undergrowth: Disability, Normalcy, and the Politics of Technological Solutionism 5.Digital technology and the recognition of the human condition – an ethical reflection concerning eID in Norway 6.Online Disability Activism: Challenges to solidarity among and with disabled South Africans Part 2: Everyday life with digitalization 7.Public transport is important but challenging for people with visual disabilities: digital systems should be tested and assessed by real users 8.Sociotechnical Constellations: Navigating Digital Inclusion in Everyday Life 9.The right to read in everyday life: Exploring legal, technical, and social dimensions of accessibility and digital reading practices 10.Technocapitalist Inclusionism: Disability and New Digital Societies in Asia 11.Connected but Constrained?: Entrepreneurs with Disabilities in the Digital Era 12.Complex Dynamics Beyond Medical Management: Chronic Respiratory Disease, Disability, and Digitalisation in the New Digital Society Part 3: Social media and computer games 13.From Access to Participation: Learning Disability, Social Media, and the New Digital Society 14."It's Us Who Produce All This": Collective Media Production and Everyday Advocacy Among Youth with Disabilities 15.‘(T)hen I don’t need to fit into any mould’: Role of social media in disabled young people’s activism and its implications for the disability movement in Finland 16.ADHD TikTok as Caring Existential Media: Neurodivergent Discourses, Meaning-Making and Webs of Care on Social Media 17.Psychological Motivations for Playing Video Games among People with Disabilities: An Exploratory and Entertainment-Centred Approach 18.Breaking Free: Gaming, Disability, and the Disruption of Social Stigma Part 4: Digitalization of welfare and social service 19.Disability and Digital Citizenship: Navigating Public Digital Services through Everyday Practices 20.Bureaucratic abusive discrimination: Organisational and legal barriers to digital participation for adults with intellectual disabilities 21.‘The Wi-fi here is really f*ckin’ slow…’ – exploring digital devices as a place-making dimension of orientation at a summer camp for disabled children and young adults in Sweden 22.Assistive technologies for aging in place with disability: Insights and implications towards a renewed inclusive and community welfare system 23.If those who need it the most are the ones who will use it the least, then transformation to eHealth will fail: Reflections on the effects of digitalisation of healthcare and social services for disabled people Part 5: Digitalization, overprotection and risks 24.Navigating Desire: Disability, Sexuality, and the Risks of Online Spaces 25.Between risk and recognition: Neurodivergent youth, sexting, and sexual exploration online 26.Protection with(out) participation: Reframing child protection and welfare in the digital lives of children with disabilities 27.Navigating Digitalisation in Intellectual Disability Services: Risk, Support, and Organisational Accountability 28.Navigating online risks: Teacher-centred approaches to inclusive digital practices for students with intellectual disabilities Part 6: Universal Design and Co-creating for better digital solutions 29.Universal Design for the Digital Age: Integrating Disability Experience through Co-Creation 30.Inclusive research on social media and the Internet: working with an Advisory Group of young adults with intellectual disabilities in Spain 31.Co-producing Accessible Mobility: Accessibility, Co-production, Digital Transport, Public Transport and Disability 32.Development of game-based technology to enhance hearing services for children in underserved populations: How technology may reduce exclusion in school 33.Partnership-Based Co-Creation of a Digital Application with Children, Parents, and Professionals: The DigiMetku Application to Foster Children’s Rehabilitation in Everyday Life