Editing Social model of disability (section)

== Technology ==
Over the last several decades, [[technology]] has transformed networks, services, and communication by promoting the rise of telecommunications, computer use, etc. This [[Digital Revolution]] has changed how people work, learn, and interact, moving these basic human activities to technological platforms. However, many people who use such technology experience a form of disability. Even if it is not physically visible, those with, for example cognitive impairments, hand tremors, or vision impairments, have some form of disability that prohibit them from fully accessing technology in the way that those without a "technological disability" do.

In ''Disability and New Media'', Katie Ellis and Mike Kent state that "technology is often presented as a source of liberation; however, developments associated with [[Web 2.0]] show that this is not always the case".<ref name="Disability and new media">{{cite book|last1=Ellis|first1=Katie|title=Disability and new media|last2=Kent|first2=Mike|date=17 December 2010|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-203-83191-5}}</ref> They go on to state that the technological advancement of Web 2.0 is tethered to social ideology and stigma which "routinely disables people with disability".<ref name="Disability and new media" />

In ''Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media'', Gregg Goggin and Christopher Newell call for an innovative understanding of new media and disability issues.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Goggin|first1=Gerard|title=Digital disability: the social construction of disability in new media|last2=Newell|first2=Christopher|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2003|isbn=0-7425-1844-2}}</ref> They trace developments ranging from telecommunications to assistive technologies to offer a technoscience of disability, which offers a global perspective on how disabled people are represented as users, consumers, viewers, or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and disabled people themselves.