Reconceptualizing Accessibility

Susan Hanson ()
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Susan Hanson: Clark University

Chapter 16 in Information, Place, and Cyberspace, 2000, pp 267-278 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract One of my bad habits — one that I probably shouldn’t confess to — is clipping newspaper articles and squirreling them away, solely on the basis of speed reading the headline and maybe a paragraph or two. If those few words suggest that something in the piece might possibly sometime be remotely related to anything I’m teaching or might ever teach, it gets filed away. One such piece, entitled ‘Information Inequality’ (1997, p. Ai4), appeared about a year ago on the editorial page of the Boston Globe. Thinking it dealt with unequal access to information technology (IT), I slipped it into my IT folder. When I finally read it carefully a short time ago, I was fascinated to find that the message touched hardly at all on the Internet. The editorial’s touchstone was a statement that cultural critic Stanley Crouch had made that week on a local radio show: ‘Talking about racial justice, or any justice, means talking about equal access to information.’ (That was enough to activate the scissors.)

Keywords: Information Technology; Social Capital; Personal Contact; Cultural Capital; Virtual Communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-04027-0_16

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