Access, denizens and screens in urban space: Locating disability through the Creative City to the Smart City

This thesis analyses the role of the screen in defining disability and accessibility in the dominant urban discourses of the Creative and Smart cities, and the increasing prosthetic role of the mobile urban screen (smartphone) as citizen interface. This thesis applies interdisciplinary research to d...

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Main Author: Locke, Kathryn Wenonah
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2021
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86427
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description This thesis analyses the role of the screen in defining disability and accessibility in the dominant urban discourses of the Creative and Smart cities, and the increasing prosthetic role of the mobile urban screen (smartphone) as citizen interface. This thesis applies interdisciplinary research to develop a critical, in-depth understanding of the relationship between screens and disability, and to destabilise assumptions of the normate citizen and the preferred user.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-864272021-11-17T06:16:28Z Access, denizens and screens in urban space: Locating disability through the Creative City to the Smart City Locke, Kathryn Wenonah This thesis analyses the role of the screen in defining disability and accessibility in the dominant urban discourses of the Creative and Smart cities, and the increasing prosthetic role of the mobile urban screen (smartphone) as citizen interface. This thesis applies interdisciplinary research to develop a critical, in-depth understanding of the relationship between screens and disability, and to destabilise assumptions of the normate citizen and the preferred user. 2021 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86427 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Locke, Kathryn Wenonah
Access, denizens and screens in urban space: Locating disability through the Creative City to the Smart City
title Access, denizens and screens in urban space: Locating disability through the Creative City to the Smart City
title_full Access, denizens and screens in urban space: Locating disability through the Creative City to the Smart City
title_fullStr Access, denizens and screens in urban space: Locating disability through the Creative City to the Smart City
title_full_unstemmed Access, denizens and screens in urban space: Locating disability through the Creative City to the Smart City
title_short Access, denizens and screens in urban space: Locating disability through the Creative City to the Smart City
title_sort access, denizens and screens in urban space: locating disability through the creative city to the smart city
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86427