Nowe technologie i niepełnosprawność
New technologies and disability

Author(s): Grzegorz Całek, Jakub Niedbalski, Mariola Racław, Dorota Żuchowska-Skiba
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: disability; new technologies; digital exclusion; biotechnologies; representations of disability
Summary/Abstract: The article is an introduction to a monograph devoted to showing the complex relations between new technologies and disability. On the one hand, they are seen as a tool for inclusion and emancipation, and on the other hand, they are a source of exclusion for people with disabilities. Our goal is to show the contextual relationships between technological solutions and the functioning of people with disabilities in everyday life. By showing various perspectives showing the impact of technology on everyday activities and activities undertaken by people with disabilities. This topic is extremely important today because in connection with the Covid-19 epidemic, the role and importance of modern technologies has increased. This was due to the necessity to transfer many daily activities to virtual space. These changes had significant consequences for people with disabilities who were affected by limitations in movement, access to medical care and education and the possibility of exercising their rights to support in independent and independent life, and had to transfer their activities to a virtual space within a very short time.

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