Social access: role of digital media in social relations of young people with disabilities
Kaur, Herminder and Saukko, Paula 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7614-0091
(2022)
Social access: role of digital media in social relations of young people with disabilities.
New Media and Society, 24
(2)
.
pp. 420-436.
ISSN 1461-4448
[Article]
(doi:10.1177/14614448211063177)
|
PDF
- Published version (with publisher's formatting)
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download (505kB) | Preview |
|
![[img]](https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF
- Final accepted version (with author's formatting)
Restricted to Repository staff and depositor only Download (711kB) |
Abstract
Digital media have enabled people with disabilities (PWDs) to connect with each other, but online relations and gaming have been found escapist. We propose the analytical lens of social access to examine how the role of digital media in PWDs’ social relations is shaped by (i) affordances of digital media, (ii) mixedness of relations, and (iii) interaction of online and offline worlds. This paper presents an ethnographic study in a school for young PWDs and highlights two observations. First, visual profiles on social media platforms could aggravate the social exclusion of young PWDs online and offline, marked by intra-disability and intersectional differences. Second, the co-presence afforded by digital media enabled young PWDs to resort to digital interactions in unwelcoming offline environments without changing the latter. Social access underlines the importance of studying how digital media interweave with offline social relations and inequalities, rarely altering but sometimes augmenting and ameliorating them.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords (uncontrolled): | Digital inclusion, disability, social access, social inclusion, social media, stigma |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Law > Criminology and Sociology |
| Item ID: | 33948 |
| Notes on copyright: | Kaur H, Saukko P. Social access: role of digital media in social relations of young people with disabilities. New Media & Society. 2022;24(2):420-436. doi:10.1177/14614448211063177.
© The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Useful Links: | |
| Depositing User: | Herminder Kaur |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2021 11:13 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 17:35 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/33948 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Statistics
Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)