Visually Impaired Persons in the Mediated City:Visibility Dilemmas and Technical Reflection
In the digital age,media,as a technological force connecting the virtual and real worlds and restructuring social connections,has opened up a new form of urban civilization.Based on the daily life experiences of the visually impaired,we examined the spatial perception of physical-digital interface transformation,the embodied interface interaction through window-based operations,and the mobile sensory adaptation of the technological interface in the mediated city,aiming at revealing the internal mechanism that how technologies have shaped the invisibility politics.We found that the obscuration of the perception of the visually impaired group is dominated by the ocularcentrism and technological operation logic of sound bodily presuppositions,which is the visibility dilemma in the sense of media ontology.Among them,the visible and perceptible narrow technological vision,the functional"segmentation"and"removal"of communication facilities,and the differentiation,ranking and discrimination of users in mediated environments limit the diversified sensory and socio-technological practices,and exacerbate the invisibility in the technical and sociocultural sense.Our research has unique theoretical and practical value for promoting the understanding of the relationship between humans and technology,media and society,and for improving the design of disability facilities and accessible environments.
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