Disability Culture and Technology

许多残疾人社区开发了参与工作和社会生活的远程技术。这些创新技术是残疾文化和社区的一部分。许多人认为，技术只是帮助残疾人做非残疾人所做的事情。然而，残疾人也会设计自己的技术，以挑战被认为是正常的东西。《残疾文化与技术》旨在通过记录技术在残疾社区中的作用，解决残疾人面临的社会不平等问题。这项研究得出的数据将免费提供给公众。这些数据产生的出版物还将使政策制定者、雇主和决策者能够在远程参与方面做出更明智的选择。这将使就业和教育机会更加公平和多样化。更好地了解残疾人的贡献和知识也将使社会受益。《残疾人文化与技术》将探讨在新冠肺炎疫情期间和之前，残疾人如何使用和改造远程访问技术来塑造社会。该NSF学者奖收集口述历史、图像、视频和其他形式的文档，以建立残疾人使用远程访问形成社区的方式的档案。这份档案将使研究人员能够研究残疾人如何塑造技术，以便在大流行中生存下来，更广泛地说，改变社会。它将告诉科学和技术研究学者如何理解谁设计、使用和改造技术等问题。这项研究和随之而来的出版物还将告知残疾研究学者如何理解技术在远距离连接残疾人和形成社区方面的作用。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Many disability communities have developed remote techniques for participating in work and social life. These innovative techniques are part of disability culture and community. Many people believe that technologies merely help disabled people do the things that nondisabled people do. However, disabled people also design their own technologies in order to challenge what is considered normal. “Disability Culture and Technology” aims to address the social inequalities that disabled people face by documenting the role of technology in disability communities. The data resulting from this study will be made free and available to the public. Publications resulting from this data will also enable policymakers, employers, and decision-makers to make more informed choices regarding remote participation. This will make employment and education opportunities more equitable and diverse. Society will also benefit from a better understanding of disabled peoples’ contributions and knowledge.“Disability Culture and Technology” will ask how disabled people use and transform remote access technologies to shape society, both during and before the COVID-19 pandemic. This NSF Scholars Award gathers oral histories, images, videos, and other forms of documentation to build an archive of the ways that disabled people use remote access to form community. This archive will enable researchers to study how disabled people shape technology in order to survive the pandemic, and more broadly, to change society. It will inform how science and technology studies scholars understand issues such as who designs, uses, and transforms technology. The research and resulting publications will also inform how disability studies scholars understand the role of technology in connecting disabled people across long distances and forming communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.