Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Introduction: Social Disability
Part One: Advocacy
Chapter Two: The Social Media and Deaf Empowerment. Polish Deaf Communities Online Fight for Representation (Magdalena Zdrodowska)
Chapter Three: Personal reflections on the #107days campaign. Transformative, subversive or accidental? (Sara Ryan and George Julian)
Chapter Four: Confirming Normalcy: 'Inspiration Porn' and the Construction of the Disabled Subject? (Beth Haller and Jeffrey Preston)
Chapter Five: Bedding Out: art, activism and Twitter (Lucy Burke and Liz Crow)
Part Two: Access
Chapter Six: The growing importance of accessible social media (Scott Hollier)
Chapter Seven: Transport mésadapté: Exploring online disability activism in Montréal (Laurence Parent and Marie-Eve Veilleux)
Chapter Eight: Interactive inclusive – Designing tools for activism and empowerment (Tom Bieling, Tiago Martins and Gesche Joost)
Chapter Nine: New Media and Accessible Emergency Communications: A United States-Based Meta Analysis (DeeDee Bennett, Helena Mitchell and Paul M. A. Baker)
Part Three: Communications
Chapter Ten: Social Media Use and Mediated Sociality Among Individuals with Communication Disabilities in the Digital Age (Meryl Alper and Beth Haller)
Chapter Eleven: #socialconversations: disability representation and audio description on Marvel’s Daredevil (Katie Ellis)
Chapter Twelve: Articulating Vulnerability and Interdependence in Networked Social Space (Brian Goldfarb and John Armenta)
Chapter Thirteen: Social media and disability inclusion: Critical reflections of a Zimbabwean activist (Kudzai Shava)
Part Four: Education
Chapter Fourteen: Opportunities for eLearning, social media and disability (Mike Kent)
Chapter Fifteen: A Phenomenology of Media Making Experience: Disability Studies and Wearable Cameras (D. Andy Rice)
Chapter Sixteen: Blackboard as in/accessible social media: Updating education, teaching and learning (Leanne McRae)
Chapter Seventeen: Dyslexics 'Knowing How' to challenge ‘Lexism’ (Craig Collinson and Owen Barden)
Part Five: Community
Chapter Eighteen: ‘Talking my language’: The AthletesFirst project and the use of blogging in virtual disability sport communities (Andrea Bundon)
Chapter Nineteen: Posting autism: Online self-representation strategies in Tistje, a Flemish blog on Living on the spectrum from the front row (Anneleen Masschelein and Leni Van Goidsenhoven)
Chapter Twenty: From awareness to inclusion: Creating bridges with the disability community through social media and civil society in Japan (Muneo Kaigo)
Part Six: New Directions
Chapter Twenty one: Self-representation considerations for people who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and social media (Amanda Hynan, Janice Murray and Juliet Goldbart)
Chapter Twenty two: Disability and discourse: An Arabian example (Najma Al Zidjaly)
Chapter Twenty three: Using social media to advance the social rights of people with disability in China: The Beijing One Plus One Disabled Persons’ Cultural Development Centre (Jian Xu, Mike Kent, Katie Ellis and He Zhang)