Becoming Digital Citizens
Disability, ICTs, and Citizenship in Contemporary China
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 November 2025
- ISBN 9780197774823
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 226x155x22 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 figures and 4 tables 641
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Short description:
This book explores the relationship between disability, citizenship, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Chinese context. It offers new insights into the norms and practices of digital, Chinese, and disabled citizenship that widen the scope of disability and citizenship studies and highlights the potential and challenges of using technologies to improve inclusion and promote social justice.
MoreLong description:
Becoming Digital Citizens explores the relationship between disability, citizenship, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Chinese context. Based on rich empirical evidence, this book examines the citizenship status of disabled people in a rapidly changing, digital China and the ICTs-related, multi-dimensional practices of disabled people in claiming rights and appealing for a better social position. It explores the process by which disabled people become individual and collective subjects with agency through their use of ICTs, the forms and patterns of their acts in the digital sphere, and their interactions with wider structures and existing citizenship discourse and institutions. From this, Yuanyuan Qu identifies a distinct digital disability citizenship that has its own specific features and scenarios.
The culmination of ten years of research, Becoming Digital Citizens uses a grounded theory approach and a combination of methods, including digital ethnography, content analysis, and in-depth interviews, to present a nuanced portrayal of the digital life of Chinese disabled people. In doing so, it offers new insights into the norms and practices of digital, Chinese, and disabled citizenship that widen the scope of disability and citizenship studies.
By focusing on China, a newcomer to digitalization but a fast-developing one, and the perspective of disabled people, Qu highlights the potential and challenges of using ICTs to improve inclusion and promote social justice.
10/02/2025
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgement
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: At the intersection of disability, ICTs, and citizenship
Researching complexities in transforming China
What is it like to be disabled in China?: Meanings, entitlements, and embodied experience
'Going out' in cyberspace
Working in the digital economy
Joining China's internet politics
Reconstructing disability identity and culture
Conclusion: Remaking citizenship: technology and disability in a changing China
Appendix
References
Index
