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Jan 22, 2024: Ashley Shew, author, "Against Technoableism"

Ashley Shew, author, “Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement”

Show Notes

• About our guest: Ashley Shew is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech, and specializes in disability studies and technology ethics.

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, by Ashley Shew

Disability Dongle (April 19, 2022), by Liz Jackson, Alex Haagaard, and Rua Williams. “Disability Dongle: A well intended elegant, yet useless solution to a problem we never knew we had. Disability Dongles are most often conceived of and created in design schools and at IDEO.”

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported (IEEE Spectrum, Feb 15, 2022): “Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark.”
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Jan 22, 2024