Technology and Disability

Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech

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Ashley Shew, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech

Category: Ableism

  • A Typology of Disabled Technology Use

    Guest Blog post by Hanna Herdegen, researcher on the Disability, Experience, and Technological Imagination Grant (NSF #1750260) When we talk about disability and technology, we often operate from within a paradigm that places disabled people, designers, and technologies in a hierarchical arrangement. That is: disabled people as tragic victims of their circumstances, technologies as their…

  • Spring 2020: Bodies as Science and Spectacle

    I’m teaching a course related to tech & dis (but is not tech & dis) for Spring 2020: — STS 4304/STS 5424 A unique course offered only in Spring 2020! Mondays 2:30-5:15pm Bodies as Science and Spectacle Take a deep dive into the ways human bodies are problematized and viewed in medical literature, featured in…

  • Disabled People in Space, more things

    The stream of the Becoming Interplanetary event at the Library of Congress is now online (with transcript!), so, for those interested, here is the link to the stream of Becoming Interplanetary. The journalist Rose Eveleth (from the paper we read “The Hidden Burden of Exoskeletons for the Disabled”) published an article in WIRED that features…

  • Disabled People in Space

    Journalist Rose Eveleth (of “The Hidden Burden of Exoskeletons” we read in T&D class) just published an article in WIRED about disabled people in space – this includes interviews with the Gallaudet Eleven’s David Myers, the Disability Visibility Project’s Alice Wong (from the MedEx talk we view), and Disability Designer Mallory K. Nelson (with the…

  • Disabled People in Space – Becoming Interplanetary

    A note: I had the great pleasure of participating in a panel discussion as part of the Becoming Interplanetary Event at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress I’m still buzzing from the amazing range of new ideas and cool stuff that this meant. The event consisted of 3 panels and 3 performances. The amazing…

  • Technoableism, Cyborg Bodies, and Mars

    I’ve been tweeting for the @WeAreDisabled this week, and I worked my way to talking about tech (and not just disability issues) today. The thread where I briefly lay out my own current work is here: @ashleyshoo on @WeAreDisabled. I am copying the text below for two reasons: (1) this seems like a blog post…