Holding the line online: exploring wired relationships for people with disabilities
- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Disability & Society
- Vol. 19 (4), 291-305
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09687590410001689421
Abstract
Clearly, the Internet represents a huge new step in interpersonal communications. It offers people with disabilities the possibility of confronting the issues of time, space, communication and the body, but what happens when people with disabilities engage with the computer? Do they use the Internet to develop friendships and intimate relationships? Does online communication enhance self‐identity and social being? Do people use the Internet to transcend the vagaries of their frail and vulnerable bodies? Or are they simply ‘holding the line’ online, using the Internet as they would use a letter or a telephone? Is the Internet a chimera, a failed promise, for people with disabilities?Keywords
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