The Routledge International Handbook of Disability Studies and the New Digital Society offers important new perspectives on the digitization of society in relation to disability.

Featuring the work of leading researchers from around the world, the book explores digitization and disability in a wide range of contexts, including schools, healthcare settings, public transport and working life, as well as across different forms of e-government, e-learning and e-business. It examines digitization in everyday life, including digital products such as smart phones, computer games and social media, and explores key themes such as artificial intelligence, the digitization of welfare and social services, overprotection and risk, and universal design and co-creation for better digital solutions. At the heart of the book is a focus on accessibility to digital technology as well as consideration of The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This handbook will be of interest to all scholars of disability studies, health and social care, nursing, teaching, sociology, and science and technology studies.

Kristofer Hansson is a lecturer at the Department of Social Work, Malmö University and holds an Associate Professorship in Ethnology. His research focuses on children and young people living with long-term sickness and disability. Hansson is also associated with Malmö University’s Sustainable Digitalization Research Centre (SDRC) and K2, the National Knowledge Centre for Collective Mobility. He is the editor of Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities (Routledge, 2021).