Abstract
Our theme, however, has wider and deeper implications than are usually
warranted, when it is customarily regarded as a "special," specialized,
minority, or marginalized concern. Disability raises many of the
questions considered in this journal: struggles for democracy in
the information society; computers, networks, and work; e-commerce;
construction of identity; the relations of gender, class, and ethnicity;
and social and cultural shaping of technology. Disability needs to
be framed in much larger, less conceptually barren and constraining
ways than it has been. There is a dawning recognition of the important
role that disability plays in the complex social, economic, and political
environments of information technologies. When we do acknowledge
these overarching bearings of disability, we find that, in various
respects, we think disability stands to cross-fertilize these debates
in timely, interdisciplinary, and multivoiced ways. This, at least,
is our desire, in bringing forth these articles.
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