Technologia jako narzędzie społecznej dystynkcji. Nieoczywiste relacje techniki i niepełnosprawności

• Authors: Magdalena Zdrodowska

Title variants

EN

Technology as a tool of social distinction. Unobvious relations between technology and disability

Abstracts

EN

Assistive technologies are solutions designed to improve everyday functioning of people with disabilities. However, critical analysis of this concept may lead to surprising conclusions. If under the term of assistive technologies we understand solutions that support everyday functioning of human body and mind, it turns out that in fact every technology could be considered to be assistive in one way or another. Nevertheless, commonly used technologies are identified as assistive only when they are intended for users with disabilities. This indicates how ambiguous this concept is and that assistive technology (just like disability) is in fact a social and cultural construct.

Keywords

PL

historia techniki; niepełnosprawność; technologie asystujące; medykalizacja; telefon

EN

history of technology; disability; assistive technologies; medicalization; telephone

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 13-26

Contributors

author

Magdalena Zdrodowska

Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2018.102.02

Biblioteka Nauki

1853599