Sites of Normalcy: Understanding Online Education as Prosthetic Technology
Research on online education in relation to disability has, importantly, focused on issues of access and usability. This article seeks to complicate this research by examining the ways in which online education participates in an ideology of normalcy. Toward this end, we first describe online educat...
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| description | Research on online education in relation to disability has, importantly, focused on issues of access and usability. This article seeks to complicate this research by examining the ways in which online education participates in an ideology of normalcy. Toward this end, we first describe online education as a site that promotes normalcy through its material practices of marginalization. We then extend this reading by analyzing how cultural narratives about online education function asdiscursive sites of normalcy by marking both online education and its users as less-than substitutes for the "real" versions. By constructing online education as a prosthetic technology, these narratives persuade marginalized bodies to recognize themselves as problems in need of solution, yet this reading itself becomes open to revision when we consider how the complexities of embodiment challenge an understanding of normalcy as a determinate discursive force. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8b7058ee01f1464a8999ea9adf315c0c2022-12-21T23:42:35ZengThe Ohio State University LibrariesDisability Studies Quarterly1041-57182159-83712014-12-0134410.18061/dsq.v34i4.40203221Sites of Normalcy: Understanding Online Education as Prosthetic TechnologyMarie Moeller0Julie Jung1University of Wisconsin at La CrosseIllinois State UniversityResearch on online education in relation to disability has, importantly, focused on issues of access and usability. This article seeks to complicate this research by examining the ways in which online education participates in an ideology of normalcy. Toward this end, we first describe online education as a site that promotes normalcy through its material practices of marginalization. We then extend this reading by analyzing how cultural narratives about online education function asdiscursive sites of normalcy by marking both online education and its users as less-than substitutes for the "real" versions. By constructing online education as a prosthetic technology, these narratives persuade marginalized bodies to recognize themselves as problems in need of solution, yet this reading itself becomes open to revision when we consider how the complexities of embodiment challenge an understanding of normalcy as a determinate discursive force.http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4020online educationprostheticrhetoricemotionmateriality |
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