Disability and Social Media
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This book considers the impacts of our increasing reliance on social media for people with disability through a number of international case studies. The book celebrates and complicates the increasing visibility of disability through social media, by acknowledging and analysing the opportunities and challenges social media represents for the social inclusion of people with disabilities. Disability and Social Media is a significant book for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of social media in disciplines including internet, cultural, communication and media, and disability studies.…mehr

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This book considers the impacts of our increasing reliance on social media for people with disability through a number of international case studies. The book celebrates and complicates the increasing visibility of disability through social media, by acknowledging and analysing the opportunities and challenges social media represents for the social inclusion of people with disabilities. Disability and Social Media is a significant book for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of social media in disciplines including internet, cultural, communication and media, and disability studies.
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Autorenporträt
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.