{"id":24,"date":"2023-10-27T15:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/?p=24"},"modified":"2025-09-10T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:40:45","slug":"against-technoableism-rethinking-who-needs-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/2023\/against-technoableism-rethinking-who-needs-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>In this event\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.vt.edu\/departments-and-schools\/department-of-science-technology-and-society\/faculty\/ashley-shew.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Ashley Shew<\/a>, Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech will examine what we think we know about disability and its intersection with technology drawing from her new book, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. For more information and to register for this event,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/readi\/cu-events\/against-technoableism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visit the READi website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this event\u00a0Dr. Ashley Shew, Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech will examine what we think we know about disability and its intersection with technology drawing from her new book, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. For more information and to register for this event,\u00a0visit the READi website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-specialization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}