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| Title | New Cities, Old Prosthesis: Smart Cities, Smartphones And Disability |
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| ID_Doc | 39107 |
| Authors | Locke K.; Ellis K. |
| Year | 2022 |
| Published | Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94122-2_13 |
| Abstract | This chapter draws on two images of the prosthesis to explore the intersections between the disabled body and the smart city. First, we use David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder’s theory of disability as narrative prosthesis throughout this chapter to investigate the way the smart city paradigm draws on the image of disability as a metaphor for the capacity for Smart Cities to resolve urban issues. Second, we draw on the ways smartphones act as a prosthesis or the conduit that connects the body, disabled or otherwise to the city. In doing so we offer a theory-grounded argument that smartphones have become an important accessibility tool for people with disabilities with the caveat that accessibility is not ‘one size fits all’. Our chapter also draws evidence from findings of a pilot study into how people with disability use smartphones to navigate urban space in regional and metropolitan cities in Western Australia. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022. |
| Author Keywords | Accessibility; Disability; Prosthesis; Smart City; Smartphones |
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