Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. The right to access the same digital content at the same time and at the same cost as people without disabilities is implicit in several human rights instruments and is featured prominently in Articles 9 and 21 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The right to access ICT, moreover, invokes complementary civil and human rights issues: freedom of expression; freedom to information; political participation; civic engagement; inclusive education; the right to access the highest level of scientific and technological information; and participation in social and cultural opportunities.Despite the ready availability and minimal cost of technology to enable people with disabilities to access ICT on an equal footing as consumers without disabilities, prevailing practice around the globe continues to result in their exclusion. Questions and complexities may also arise where technologies advance ahead of existing laws and policies, where legal norms are established but not yet implemented, or where legal rights are defined but clear technical implementations are not yet established.At the intersection of human-computer interaction, disability rights, civil rights, human rights, international development, and public policy, the volume's contributors examine crucial yet underexplored areas, including technology access for people with cognitive impairments, public financing of information technology, accessibility and e-learning, and human rights and social inclusion.Contributors: John Bertot, Peter Blanck, Judy Brewer, Joyram Chakraborty, Tim Elder, Jim Fruchterman, G. Anthony Giannoumis, Paul Jaeger, Sanjay Jain, Deborah Kaplan, Raja Kushalnagar, Jonathan Lazar, Fredric I. Lederer, Janet E. Lord, Ravi Malhotra, Jorge Manhique, Mirriam Nthenge, Joyojeet Pal, Megan A. Rusciano, David Sloan, Michael Ashley Stein, Brian Wentz, Marco Winckler, Mary J. Ziegler.

Information technology --- Computers and people with disabilities. --- People with disabilities --- Social aspects. --- Civil rights. --- funksjonshemmede --- informasjonsteknologi --- universell utforming --- menneskerettigheter

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

informasjonsteknologi --- samhandling --- teknologioverføring --- sosiale strukturer --- organisasjoner --- Information technology --- Technology --- History of technology --- Social interaction --- Systems development --- Productivity --- Technology transfer --- Computer technology --- Social structures --- Tools

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Big Data" is on the covers of Science, Nature, the Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. In many cases, there are no data -- because relevant data don't exist, cannot be found, or are not available. Moreover, data sharing is difficult, incentives to do so are minimal, and data practices vary widely across disciplines. Borgman, an often-cited authority on scholarly communication, argues that data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure -- an ecology of people, practices, technologies, institutions, material objects, and relationships. After laying out the premises of her investigation -- six "provocations" meant to inspire discussion about the uses of data in scholarship -- Borgman offers case studies of data practices in the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and then considers the implications of her findings for scholarly practice and research policy. To manage and exploit data over the long term, Borgman argues, requires massive investment in knowledge infrastructures; at stake is the future of scholarship.

Information retrieval --- Information systems --- Communication in learning and scholarship --- Research --- Information technology. --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Communication savante --- Recherche --- Technologie de l'information --- Systèmes d'information --- Technological innovations. --- Methodology. --- Data processing. --- Innovations --- Méthodologie --- Informatique --- Cyberinfrastructure. --- Information technology --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Technological innovations --- Methodology --- Data processing --- Systèmes d'information --- Méthodologie --- Cyber-based information systems --- Cyber-infrastructure --- Electronic data processing --- Computer networks --- Computer systems --- Distributed databases --- High performance computing --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Electronic data processing in research --- Communication in scholarship --- Scholarly communication --- Learning and scholarship --- Distributed processing --- Store datamengder --- Informasjonsteknologi --- Datautvinning --- Forskningsmetoder --- Cyberspace --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/General --- Data centers --- Communication in learning and scholarship - Technological innovations --- Research - Methodology --- Research - Data processing