Digital Divide & Disability Justice Issues
Digital Divide
"Americans with disabilities less likely than those without to own some digital devices"-Pew Research Center
The digital divide is the unequal access to digital technology. The digital divide creates a division and inequality around access to information and resources. In the Information Age in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) have eclipsed manufacturing technologies as the basis for world economies and social connectivity, people without access to the Internet and other ICTs are at a socio-economic disadvantage, for they are unable or less able to find and apply for jobs, shop and learn. (1)
Disability Justice
"The term disability justice was coined out of conversations between disabled queer women of color activists in 2005, including Patty Berne of Sins Invalid, seeking to challenge radical and progressive movements to more fully address ableism (see ‘Principles of Disability Justice’. Disability justice recognizes the intersecting legacies of white supremacy, colonial capitalism, gendered oppression and ableism in understanding how peoples’ bodies and minds are labelled ‘deviant’, ‘unproductive’, ‘disposable’ and/or ‘invalid’" (Exploring Disability Justice).
White Noise Collective. Exploring Disability Justice. 2016. www.conspireforchange.org/exploring-disability-justice
Recommended LibGuides:
10 Principles of Disability Justice
Zoom
Another challenge is that frequently used technologies, like Zoom, are not made to be inclusive for people with disabilities.