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Abstract Clearly, the Internet represents a huge new step in interpersonal communications. It offers people with disabilities the possibility of confronting the issues of time, space, communication and the body, but what happens when people with disabilities engage with the computer? Do they use the Internet to develop friendships and intimate relationships? Does online communication enhance self‐identity and social being? Do people use the Internet to transcend the vagaries of their frail and vulnerable bodies? Or are they simply 'holding the line' online, using the Internet as they would use a letter or a telephone? Is the Internet a chimera, a failed promise, for people with disabilities? Notes ∗ Corresponding author: School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, St Bernards Road, Magill, South Australia 5072, Australia. Email: wendy.seymour@unisa.edu.au Additional informationNotes on contributorsWendy Seymour Footnote∗ ∗ Corresponding author: School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, St Bernards Road, Magill, South Australia 5072, Australia. Email: wendy.seymour@unisa.edu.au
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