Restricted Access

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Elizabeth Ellcessor’s inspiring book Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation lies at the intersection of disability, technology, culture, and bodies, and it raises new questions in these intersecting research fields. It is a timely and welcome work that fills in the research gap between disability studies and media studies.

” - International Journal of Communication “Ellcessor calls for cultural collaboration that does not exclude disability culture or attempt to erase disability culture in the name of universal design.” (Choice) “Restricted Accesstransforms our understanding of what ‘access’ means in an age when so much writing on new media fetishizes participation.Elizabeth Ellcessor reveals the ways in which ability, culture, and technology are all entangled in questions of accessibility. Timely and sophisticated, Ellcessors book is a major advance in media studies and disability studies, and will also be of great interest to scholars in policy.” - Jonathan Sterne,author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format