Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation (Postmillennial Pop) by Ellcessor Elizabeth

Author:Ellcessor, Elizabeth [Ellcessor, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: SOC029000 Social Science / People With Disabilities
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2016-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

The Site of Content

Analyzing media access from the point of view of content is just one of the five perspectives established in the interrogatory “access kit” featured in the Introduction to this book. The kit offers five lenses through which to consider access, each with an associated group of questions. Individually, each perspective—regulation, use, form, content, and experience—draws focus to particular elements that enable or constrain access to a given medium at a given time for a given individual or group. Taken together, however, the questions asked within this kit aim to direct research in such a way as to retain the inherent complications and contradictions of media access as a variable and important phenomenon. No perspective is necessarily more truthful, useful, or rigorous; each perspective indicates particular concerns and dynamics that may be more or less relevant.

This chapter works within the domain of content, which I use to refer to the cultural signifiers and meanings conveyed by a media artifact. Accessibility advocates and new media theorists often trumpet the ability of digital media to separate form and content; the technical and material components, such as code and hardware, constitute the form, while the content is the meaningful component designed, written, or developed for the purpose of communication. Content thus includes simple textual information and audio, visual, video, and multimedia artifacts. It is the blog post, the YouTube video, the listings of a retail website. Content is the communicative and cultural component of digital media. Content is what we access; it is the most frequent motivation for access. The interrogatory that guides analysis of content in terms of access is as follows:

What is the information, meaning, or experience being pursued and why?

What are the cultural values surrounding that content?

How does this content, as a set of motivations and meanings, relate to the form in which it is delivered or received?

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