In/visibility Politics of the Visually Impaired in Networked Cities: Reflecting Media Technology Interfaces from Disabilities

XIE Zhuoxiao

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (5) : 96-120.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (5) : 96-120.
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In/visibility Politics of the Visually Impaired in Networked Cities: Reflecting Media Technology Interfaces from Disabilities

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This study takes visibility as an entry point to consider the practice and impact of media technology interfaces from the perspective of disabilities. It analyzes the technological barriers in digital identity tracking and management, the embodied interface interactions, and the mobile sensory adaptation of media interfaces that visually impaired people encounter in the city, as well as the efforts that they make to adapt to related technological presuppositions. Furthermore, it discusses how technologies complicated the “in/visibility politics” in the networked city. This paper argues that visually impaired people face not only the symbolic invisibility (“identity” or “image”), but also the dilemma of visibility in the sense of media ontology, i.e., the prominence and obscuration of perception by media technologies in specific space and time. Ocularcentrism and social differentiation of people with different physical abilities imposes the visually impaired taking an ableist way of “seeing”. In this sense, mediated perception and gaze are only with narrow visions, and the “disappearance” and “truncation” of certain aspects of bodily activity and sensory experience surrounding the interfaces render related people and actions “invisible”.

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visual impaired people / visibility politics / networked city / media interface / technology studies

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XIE Zhuoxiao. In/visibility Politics of the Visually Impaired in Networked Cities: Reflecting Media Technology Interfaces from Disabilities[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2023, 45(5): 96-120

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Footnotes

1. 感谢秦兰珺、方惠,以及匿名审稿人为论文修改提出的建议。

2. 在此特向蔡聪致谢,他为研究的理论分析和现实探讨提供了非常多宝贵的建议。

3. 这是小蒙告诉我的情况,还有一种情况是员工住在店铺。笔者观察到福州某一盲人按摩店的情况也是员工集体住店。

Funding

Youth Project of National Social Science Fund “Barrier- free Communication for the Visually Impaired from the Perspective of Mobilities Studies”(22CXW010)
“Research and Development of Public Cultural Service Equipment and Application Demonstration” under the National Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology - “Research and Development of Public Cultural Service Facilities and Equipment for People with Disabilities”(2020YFC1523302)
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