Journal publishes Ellcessor paper on cyborg hoaxes
Assistant professor Elizabeth Ellcessor is author of “Cyborg Hoaxes: Disability, Deception, and Critical Studies of Digital Media,” published earlier this month in the journal New Media & Society.
Ellcessor’s paper examines examples of “cyborg hoaxes,” which are articulations of gender, disability and deceptive technology. She argues that ability in these examples is thought to be ideal, but that perception blocks users and scholars from finding the value in disability for digital media cultures.
In her study, she looks at a range of samples, including Catfish and Manti Te’o. Ellcessor also compares these “cyborg hoaxes” with ethnographic data on disabled peoples’ experience online.
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