Series Editor's PrefacePart I: Framing the relationship between disability and technology 1. Communications technology - empowerment or disempowerment?2. In whose service? Technology, care and disabled people: The case for a disability politics perspective3. Information and communication technologies and the opportunities of disabled persons in the Swedish labour market4. Enacting disability: how can science and technology studies inform disability studies?Part II: Empirical studies of technology and reduction of disabling barriers 5. The use, role and application of advanced technology in the lives of disabled people in the UK6. A common open space or a digital divide? A social model perspective on the online disability community in China7. Increases in wheelchair use and perceptions of disablement8. Back to the future, disability and the digital dividePart III: Moral and social tensions between disability and technology 9. Disability, identity and disclosure in the online dating environment10. 'I know, I can, I will try': Youths and adults with intellectual disabilities in Sweden using information and communication technology in their everyday life11. Implants and ethnocide: Learning from the cochlear implant controversy12. Cyborg anxiety: Oscar Pistorius and the boundaries of what it means to be humanConclusion