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How the Disabled Suffer from Information Alienation: An Ethnography

  • Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2005, 16(2), pp.89~108
  • Publisher : Journal Of The Korean Biblia Society For Library And Information Science
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

CHANG, DURK HYUN 1 임신영 2

1부산대학교
2한국노총

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ABSTRACT

The signs of the information society are everywhere, as they became the essentials in ordinary citizen's everyday life. This change requires the modern man to have proper information literacy in order to maintain their lives, and the digital divide between the established and the marginalized in the society is being widened. The gap between the two classes is the single most significant factor in reproducing the socially marginalized such as the urban poor, the disabled, the aged and migrate foreign laborers, core information poor. This study attempts to scrutinize the social problem of information barriers as viewed through the everyday lives of five disabled people. Through various ethnographic positioning and research methods, information needs and information related behaviors, along with general recognitions and reality control strategies are investigated.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.