Disability and Social Media

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.

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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