Self as enterprise: digital disability practices of entrepreneurship and employment in the wave of "Internet plus disability' in China

被引:28
作者
Lin, Zhongxuan [1 ]
Zhang, Zhi'an [1 ]
Yang, Liu [2 ]
机构
[1] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Commun & Design, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China
[2] Chongqing Univ, Sch Journalism & Commun, 55 Daxuecheng South Rd, Chongqing 401331, Peoples R China
关键词
China; disability; ICTs; neoliberalism; self as enterprise; SOCIAL MODEL; DISABLED PEOPLE; WORK; NEOLIBERALISM; LEGISLATION; INCLUSION; ACCESS; ADULTS; STORY; LABOR;
D O I
10.1080/1369118X.2018.1518470
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
Situated in China's neoliberal context and its rapid development of information communication technologies (ICTs), this study aimed to examine how disabled people in China transformed themselves into new self-enterprising subjects in the wave of Internet+Disability.' In order to answer this question, this study tried to develop an analytical framework to illustrate the disability practices that situated in the ICTs and neoliberal context, underpinned by the discourse of self as enterprise,' and demonstrated by the practices of entrepreneurship and employment. Based on the research design of case studies and methods that included ethnographic participant observation and in-depth interviews, this study explained how a disabled entrepreneur, Mr. Yuan, took advantage of the wave of Internet+Disability' to realize his dream of entrepreneurship and face the uncertainties of a precarious entrepreneurship. It also explained how Mr. Yuan's employees achieved their dreams of employment but suffered the precariousness of enterprising subjects.
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页码:554 / 569
页数:16
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