Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology
By:Jonathan Lazar,Michael Ashley Stein
Published on 2017-05-25 by University of Pennsylvania Press
Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. The right to access the same digital content at the same time and at the same cost as people without disabilities is implicit in several human rights instruments and is featured prominently in Articles 9 and 21 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The right to access ICT, moreover, invokes complementary civil and human rights issues: freedom of expression; freedom to information; political participation; civic engagement; inclusive education; the right to access the highest level of scientific and technological information; and participation in social and cultural opportunities. Despite the ready availability and minimal cost of technology to enable people with disabilities to access ICT on an equal footing as consumers without disabilities, prevailing practice around the globe continues to result in their exclusion. Questions and complexities may also arise where technologies advance ahead of existing laws and policies, where legal norms are established but not yet implemented, or where legal rights are defined but clear technical implementations are not yet established. At the intersection of human-computer interaction, disability rights, civil rights, human rights, international development, and public policy, the volume's contributors examine crucial yet underexplored areas, including technology access for people with cognitive impairments, public financing of information technology, accessibility and e-learning, and human rights and social inclusion. Contributors: John Bertot, Peter Blanck, Judy Brewer, Joyram Chakraborty, Tim Elder, Jim Fruchterman, G. Anthony Giannoumis, Paul Jaeger, Sanjay Jain, Deborah Kaplan, Raja Kushalnagar, Jonathan Lazar, Fredric I. Lederer, Janet E. Lord, Ravi Malhotra, Jorge Manhique, Mirriam Nthenge, Joyojeet Pal, Megan A. Rusciano, David Sloan, Michael Ashley Stein, Brian Wentz, Marco Winckler, Mary J. Ziegler.
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Do not you sort of pine (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's merry druthers) for the great ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were evenly plainspoken, merely practical, unpretentious, and -- most importantly otherwise -- boring, boring, dull? Don't you type of loathe when people state'do not you believe this way or feel this way'in an effort to goad you both psychologically and grammatically in to agreeing using them? In what of ABBA: I do, I do, I do(, I do, I do). Well, because the interwebs is just a earth where days gone by stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the present (and with fetish porn), we are able to review yesteryear in its inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at the least till this website finally tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's review of Macbeth in its entirety. I've bound it with much rope and drawn it here for the perusal. (Please understand that many a sic are implied in the following reviews.) its really complex and ridiculous! why cant we be studying like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that book is good! There you have it. Refreshingly, not a evaluation prepared in one of many witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal scream unleashed into the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) an adolescent, but I admire his power to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation having an economy and an understanding that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's review of exactly the same play. You might'know'MICHAEL; he's the'Problems Architect'only at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies that he designs problems... which might be the case, for several I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you never want to read is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it had been designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not a play. Together with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for every character for a few pages). None people had see the play before. None of us wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. This compounded to create me virtually hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can really fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the writer and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to see plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to read a play you then have sinned and are likely to hell, in the event that you rely on hell. Or even, you're planning to the DMV. I'm also tired of all you could smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists along with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of an email overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age once we are taught to respect each other's differences, this indicates offensively egocentric and mean-spirited to anticipate others tokowtow for a small linguistic rules. Artsy appearance may totally free by itself regardless of how you are probably trying to be able to shackle it. Which is ones sign, Aubrey. Inside this viewpoint, the have fun with Macbeth seemed to be the actual worste peice ever before published by Shakespeare, this is saying a lot contemplating furthermore go through their Romeo as well as Juliet. Ontop with it really is witout a doubt astounding plan, impractical character types as well as absolutly discusting pair of ethics, Shakespeare overtly shows Lovely lady Macbeth because the true vilian from the play. Looking at the girl with mearly the actual style around the rear spherical and Macbeth himself is definitely truely committing the particular monsterous criminal activity, as well as murder in addition to scams, I can't understand why it's extremely straightforward to believe of which Macbeth would certainly be willing to complete good in lieu of malignant if only their spouse ended up being more possitive. I believe until this enjoy is actually uterally unrealistic. 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After throughout a great though, when you buy neck-deep inside dandified pomo hijinks, it is a great wallow from the hog pen you might be itchin'for. Thanks a lot, Jo. I enjoy mom and her ineffective learning from similes that are not able to method your bilious hatred within your heart. You happen to be my very own, in addition to I'm yours. Figuratively discussing, associated with course. And today here is the assessment: Macbeth by means of William Shakespeare is best literary deliver the results while in the English language words, along with anyone who disagrees is an asshole and a dumbhead.
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