Hi Phillippa (and all who have responded thus far), Some more references to add here: 1. Bakardjieva, M., & Smith, R. (2001). The Internet in everyday life. New Media & Society, 3, 67-83. [Discusses disability in the context of the social shaping of the internet] 2. Kirkpatrick, B. (2012). ‘A blessed boon’: Radio, disability, governmentality, and the discourse of the ‘shut-in,’ 1920-1930. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 29(3), 165-184. [Provides a pre-internet perspective on connectivity and accessibility] 3. Mankoff, J., Hayes, G. R., & Kasnitz, D. (2010). Disability studies as a source of critical inquiry for the field of assistive technology. In Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, October 25-27, 2010, Orlando, FL. [Good overview on the complexity of "assistive technology" in relation to disability] I'd also encourage you to focus on particular populations with disabilities. For example, people who are Deaf may strongly identify with Deaf culture, making it hard to make generalizations about "people with disabilities." It may also be more difficult to thread apart the ways in which income, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality shape specific aspects of disability. In regards to Andrew Clark's comment to Gerard Goggin re: impairment/disablement and design, another FANTASTIC book on that is: Pullin, C. (2011). Design meets disability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Cheers, Meryl Alper Ph.D. Student in Communication Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism University of Southern California merylalper.com