Social media is popularly seen as an important media for people with disability in terms of communication, exchange and activism. These sites potentially increase both employment and leisure opportunities for one of the most traditionally isolated groups in society. However, the offline inaccessible environment has, to a certain degree, been replicated online and particularly in social networking sites. Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised.
Similarly, while social media and disability are often both observed through a focus on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different global perspectives are often overlooked. This collection explores the opportunities and challenges social media represents for the social inclusion of people with disabilities from a variety of different global perspectives that include Africa, Arabia and Asia along with European, American and Australasian perspectives and experiences.
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1 Introduction: Social disability |
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2 Social media and deaf empowerment: The Polish deaf communities' online fight for representation |
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3 Personal reflections on the #107days campaign: Transformative, subversive or accidental? |
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4 Confirming normalcy: `Inspiration porn' and the construction of the disabled subject? |
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5 Bedding Out: Art, activism and Twitter |
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6 The growing importance of accessible social media |
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7 Transport mesadapte: Exploring online disability activism in Montreal |
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8 Interactive inclusive -- designing tools for activism and empowerment |
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9 New media and accessible emergency communications: A United States-based meta analysis |
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10 Social media use and mediated sociality among individuals with communication disabilities in the digital age |
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11 #Socialconversations: Disability representation and audio description on Marvel's Daredevil |
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12 Articulating vulnerability and interdependence in networked social space |
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13 Social media and disability inclusion: Critical reflections of a Zimbabwean activist |
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14 Opportunities for eLearning, social media and disability |
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15 A phenomenology of media making experience: Disability studies and wearable cameras |
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16 Blackboard as in/accessible social media: Updating education, teaching and learning |
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17 Dyslexics `knowing how' to challenge `lexism' |
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18 `Talking my language': The AthletesFirst project and the use of blogging in virtual disability sport communities |
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19 Posting autism: Online self-representation strategies in Tistje, a Flemish blog on Living on the spectrum from the front row |
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20 From awareness to inclusion: Creating bridges with the disability community through social media and civil society in Japan |
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21 Self-representation considerations for people who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and social media |
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22 Disability, social media and religious discourse: An Arabian example |
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23 Using social media to advance the social rights of people with disability in China: The Beijing One Plus One Disabled Persons' Cultural Development Centre |
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Katie Ellis is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Internet Studies and convener of the Critical Disability Studies Research Network at Curtin University. Her research focuses on disability and the media extending across both representation and active possibilities for social inclusion. Her books include Disability and New Media (2011; with Mike Kent), Disabling Diversity (2008), Disability, Ageing and Obesity: Popular Media Identifications (2014; with Debbie Rodan & Pia Lebeck), Disability and the Media (2015; with Gerard Goggin), and Disability and Popular Culture (2015).
Mike Kent is the head of department and a senior lecturer in the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University. His main research interests focus on the two overlapping areas of people with disabilities and their access to communications technology as well as tertiary and online education. He is co-author, with Katie Ellis, of Disability and New Media (Routledge, 2011), and co-editor (with Tama Leaver) of An Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World's Largest Social Network (Routledge, 2014). His current research includes the forthcoming books Massive Open Online Courses and Higher Education: Where to Next? (Routledge) with Rebecca Bennett and Chinese Social Media Today: Critical Perspectives (Routledge) with Katie Ellis and Jian Xu.
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