[Air-L] CFP Special issue of First Monday on Disability and the Internet

[Mike Kent]

***apologies for cross-postings***

Disability and the Internet
Special issue of First Monday
Disability and the Internet in 2014: Where to now?
edited by Dr Katie Ellis & Dr Mike Kent 
Internet Studies, Curtin University

Earlier this decade, the emerging field of Disability Media began to focus
on the Internet and people with disabilities. Books such as Paul T. Jaeger's
Disability and The Internet in 2012 and Disability and New Media by this
issue's editors in 2011 both extended earlier work in this field such as
Goggin and Newell's 2003 Digital Disability. This new focus incorporated
changes to the environment with the hype around Web 2.0, the rise of social
networks and the increasing prevalence of smartphone and other mobile
devices to access the Internet, as well as the evolving legal environment
around access to technology for people with disabilities.

As we approach the second half of this first decade of the twenty first
century, this special issue of First Monday looks to bring together scholars
in disability media and related fields to look at the contemporary internet
and the challenges and opportunities it presents for people with
disabilities.

Topics of interest include developments in a number of areas as they relate
to people with disabilities. These might explore:

.	Smartphones and Tablet computing
.	Social Networks
.	Wearable Technology
.	The development and relevance of the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0, now more than five years old.
.	The changing impacts of technology and access for different
impairments
.	People with intellectual disabilities and access to the Internet
.	Challenges to universal design
.	eLearning

Researchers in a number of disciplines will be interested in this topic
including:
.	Disability Media
.	media, communications and culture
.	Internet studies
.	Disability studies 
.	Disability support workers in the community working with clients
using the Internet and online
Papers are expected by 30 June 2014.