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This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to
address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media,
internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the
Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections
between Chinese language social media and disability, celebrity,
sexuality, interpersonal communication, charity, diaspora, public
health, political activism and non-governmental organisations
(NGOs). The book is not only rich in its theoretical perspectives
but also in its methodologies. Contributors use both qualitative
and quantitative methods to study Chinese social media and its
social-cultural-political implications, such as case studies,
in-depth interviews, participatory observations, discourse
analysis, content analysis and data mining.
This book is an important collection for scholars and students
interested in the critical analysis of digital games, and will be
of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game
design and development, internet studies, visual studies, cultural
studies, communication studies, and media studies, as well as
disability studies The book explores the opportunities and
challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of
digital games from the perspective of three related areas:
representation, access and inclusion, and community Drawing on key
concerns in disability media studies, the book brings together
scholars from disability studies and game studies, alongside game
developers, educators, and disability rights activists, to reflect
upon the increasing visibility of disabled characters in digital
games Chapters explore the contemporary gaming environment as it
relates to disability on platforms such as Twitch, Minecraft, and
Tingyou, while also addressing future possibilities and pitfalls
for people with disabilities within gaming given the rise of
virtual reality applications, and augmented games such as Pokemon
Go The book also asks how game developers can attempt to represent
diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as
examples
This book is an important collection for scholars and students
interested in the critical analysis of digital games, and will be
of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game
design and development, internet studies, visual studies, cultural
studies, communication studies, and media studies, as well as
disability studies The book explores the opportunities and
challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of
digital games from the perspective of three related areas:
representation, access and inclusion, and community Drawing on key
concerns in disability media studies, the book brings together
scholars from disability studies and game studies, alongside game
developers, educators, and disability rights activists, to reflect
upon the increasing visibility of disabled characters in digital
games Chapters explore the contemporary gaming environment as it
relates to disability on platforms such as Twitch, Minecraft, and
Tingyou, while also addressing future possibilities and pitfalls
for people with disabilities within gaming given the rise of
virtual reality applications, and augmented games such as Pokemon
Go The book also asks how game developers can attempt to represent
diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as
examples
How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our
understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies,
aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history?
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability (the companion volume to
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies)
identifies both the practical and theoretical implications of such
an interdisciplinary dialogue and challenges people in disability
studies as well as other disciplinary fields to critically reflect
on their professional praxis in terms of theory, practice, and
methods. Topics covered include interdisciplinary outlooks ranging
from media studies, games studies, education, performance, history
and curation through to theology and immunology. Perspectives are
drawn from different regions from the European Union to the Global
South with chapters that draw on a range of different national
backgrounds. Our contributors who write as either disabled people
or allies do not proceed from a singular approach to disability,
often reflecting different or even opposing positions. The
collection features contributions from both established and new
voices in international disability studies outlining their own
visions for the future of the field. Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Disability will be of interest to all scholars and students
working within the fields of disability studies, cultural studies,
sociology, law history and education. The concerns raised here are
further in Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability
Studies.
This collection identifies the key tensions and conflicts being
debated within the field of critical disability studies and
provides both an outline of the field in its current form and
offers manifestos for its future direction. Traversing a number of
disciplines from science and technology studies to maternal
studies, the collection offers a transdisciplinary vision for the
future of critical disability studies. Some common thematic
concerns emerge across the book such as digital futures, the
usefulness of anger, creativity, family as disability allies,
intersectionality, ethics, eugenics, accessibility and
interdisciplinarity. However, the contributors who write as either
disabled people or allies do not proceed from a singular approach
to disability, often reflecting different or even opposing
positions on these issues. Containing contributions from
established and new voices in disability studies outlining their
own manifesto for the future of the field, this book will be of
interest to all scholars and students working within the fields of
disability studies, cultural studies, sociology, law, history and
education. The concerns introduced here are further explored in its
sister volume Interdisciplinary approaches to disability: looking
towards the future.
This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to
address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media,
internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the
Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections
between Chinese language social media and disability, celebrity,
sexuality, interpersonal communication, charity, diaspora, public
health, political activism and non-governmental organisations
(NGOs). The book is not only rich in its theoretical perspectives
but also in its methodologies. Contributors use both qualitative
and quantitative methods to study Chinese social media and its
social-cultural-political implications, such as case studies,
in-depth interviews, participatory observations, discourse
analysis, content analysis and data mining.
How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our
understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies,
aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history?
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability (the companion volume to
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies)
identifies both the practical and theoretical implications of such
an interdisciplinary dialogue and challenges people in disability
studies as well as other disciplinary fields to critically reflect
on their professional praxis in terms of theory, practice, and
methods. Topics covered include interdisciplinary outlooks ranging
from media studies, games studies, education, performance, history
and curation through to theology and immunology. Perspectives are
drawn from different regions from the European Union to the Global
South with chapters that draw on a range of different national
backgrounds. Our contributors who write as either disabled people
or allies do not proceed from a singular approach to disability,
often reflecting different or even opposing positions. The
collection features contributions from both established and new
voices in international disability studies outlining their own
visions for the future of the field. Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Disability will be of interest to all scholars and students
working within the fields of disability studies, cultural studies,
sociology, law history and education. The concerns raised here are
further in Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability
Studies.
This collection identifies the key tensions and conflicts being
debated within the field of critical disability studies and
provides both an outline of the field in its current form and
offers manifestos for its future direction. Traversing a number of
disciplines from science and technology studies to maternal
studies, the collection offers a transdisciplinary vision for the
future of critical disability studies. Some common thematic
concerns emerge across the book such as digital futures, the
usefulness of anger, creativity, family as disability allies,
intersectionality, ethics, eugenics, accessibility and
interdisciplinarity. However, the contributors who write as either
disabled people or allies do not proceed from a singular approach
to disability, often reflecting different or even opposing
positions on these issues. Containing contributions from
established and new voices in disability studies outlining their
own manifesto for the future of the field, this book will be of
interest to all scholars and students working within the fields of
disability studies, cultural studies, sociology, law, history and
education. The concerns introduced here are further explored in its
sister volume Interdisciplinary approaches to disability: looking
towards the future.
Since the first MOOC was launched at the University of Manitoba in
2008, this new form of the massification of higher education has
been a rollercoaster ride for the university sector. The New York
Times famously declared 2012 to be the year of the MOOC. However,
by 2014, the number of academic leaders who believed the model was
unsustainable doubled to more than 50%. While the MOOC hype has
somewhat subsided, the attitudes and anxieties of this peak time
can still be seen influencing universities and their
administrations. This is the first volume that addresses Massive
Open Online Courses from a post-MOOC perspective. We move beyond
the initial hype and revolutionary promises of the peak-MOOC period
and take a sober look at what endures in an area that is still
rapidly growing, albeit without the headlines. This book explores
the future of the MOOC in higher education by examining what went
right, what went wrong and where to next for the massification of
higher education and online learning and teaching. The chapters in
this collection address these questions from a wide variety of
different backgrounds, methodologies and regional perspectives.
They explore learner experiences, the move towards course for
credit, innovative design, transformations and implications of the
MOOC in turn. This book is valuable reading for students and
academics interested in education, eLearning, globalisation and
information services.
An Education in Facebook? examines and critiques the role of
Facebook in the evolving landscape of higher education. At times a
mandated part of classroom use, at others an informal network for
students, Facebook has become an inevitable component of college
life, acting alternately as an advertising, recruitment and
learning tool. But what happens when educators use a corporate
product, which exists outside of the control of universities, to
educate students? An Education in Facebook? provides a broad
discussion of the issues educators are already facing on college
campuses worldwide, particularly in areas such as privacy,
copyright and social media etiquette. By examining current uses of
Facebook in university settings, this book offers both a thorough
analytical critique as well as practical advice for educators and
administrators looking to find ways to thoughtfully integrate
Facebook and other digital communication tools into their
classrooms and campuses.
Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering
disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now
play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of
protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing
complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for
individual users to control how the content is displayed has been
diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely
technical decisions but they are highly political and betray a
disturbing trend of ableist assumption that serve to exclude people
with disability. It has been argued that the Internet will not be
fully accessible until disability is considered a cultural identity
in the same way that class, gender and sexuality are. Kent and
Ellis build on this notion using more recent Web 2.0 phenomena,
social networking sites, virtual worlds and file sharing. Many of
the studies on disability and the web have focused on the early
web, prior to the development of social networking applications
such as Facebook, YouTube and Second Life. This book discusses an
array of such applications that have grown within and alongside Web
2.0, and analyzes how they both prevent and embrace the inclusion
of people with disability.
Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering
disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now
play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of
protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing
complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for
individual users to control how the content is displayed has been
diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely
technical decisions but they are highly political and betray a
disturbing trend of ableist assumption that serve to exclude people
with disability. It has been argued that the Internet will not be
fully accessible until disability is considered a cultural identity
in the same way that class, gender and sexuality are. Kent and
Ellis build on this notion using more recent Web 2.0 phenomena,
social networking sites, virtual worlds and file sharing. Many of
the studies on disability and the web have focused on the early
web, prior to the development of social networking applications
such as Facebook, YouTube and Second Life. This book discusses an
array of such applications that have grown within and alongside Web
2.0, and analyzes how they both prevent and embrace the inclusion
of people with disability.
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.
Scholars have long recognized the media's role in shaping and
reflecting the way we see the world, ourselves, and others. In
particular, they have understood that the media plays a vital part
in the social and cultural construction of disability. Moreover, as
new types of media proliferate, and become increasingly important
in our daily lives, addressing the sometimes difficult questions
surrounding the relationship between disability and the media is
more important than ever. In particular, what is the media's role
in the disablement of people with impairments and can it also act
as a powerful agent of change? And how are attitudes towards people
with disabilities constantly reinscribed through media such as
television, film, and the Internet? Now, this new four-volume
collection from Routledge's acclaimed Critical Concepts in Media
and Cultural Studies series enables users readily to access and
make sense of the essential texts of disability-and-media
scholarship. The collection is organized into four principal parts:
Disability and the Mass Media; Disability and Film; Disability and
Popular Culture; and Disability, the Internet, and New Media. Fully
indexed and with an introduction newly written by the editors,
Disability and the Media is an indispensable reference resource for
researchers and students.
Shortly before Mike Kent retired after thirty years as a London
headteacher, the visiting educational psychologist attached to his
school sat chuckling helplessly over a coffee as Mike related tales
of school life. 'You know, people would never believe what your job
involves,' he said. 'You should keep a diary for a year and turn it
into a book.' Mike thought that was a great idea... and here it is.
Read about Emma who wasn't, the invisible plumbers, Eddie the
Terror, the Vicar's Rolo, Samesh's spectacles, the shoe in the
fence, Joseph and the eels, the lift that wouldn't, staffroom
secrets, serious pigeons, the diplodocus, persistent salesmen, the
mums up for a scrap, and a host of other jaw-dropping tales... all
in the line of duty!
Since the first MOOC was launched at the University of Manitoba in
2008, this new form of the massification of higher education has
been a rollercoaster ride for the university sector. The New York
Times famously declared 2012 to be the year of the MOOC. However,
by 2014, the number of academic leaders who believed the model was
unsustainable doubled to more than 50%. While the MOOC hype has
somewhat subsided, the attitudes and anxieties of this peak time
can still be seen influencing universities and their
administrations. This is the first volume that addresses Massive
Open Online Courses from a post-MOOC perspective. We move beyond
the initial hype and revolutionary promises of the peak-MOOC period
and take a sober look at what endures in an area that is still
rapidly growing, albeit without the headlines. This book explores
the future of the MOOC in higher education by examining what went
right, what went wrong and where to next for the massification of
higher education and online learning and teaching. The chapters in
this collection address these questions from a wide variety of
different backgrounds, methodologies and regional perspectives.
They explore learner experiences, the move towards course for
credit, innovative design, transformations and implications of the
MOOC in turn. This book is valuable reading for students and
academics interested in education, eLearning, globalisation and
information services.
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.
An Education in Facebook? examines and critiques the role of
Facebook in the evolving landscape of higher education. At times a
mandated part of classroom use, at others an informal network for
students, Facebook has become an inevitable component of college
life, acting alternately as an advertising, recruitment and
learning tool. But what happens when educators use a corporate
product, which exists outside of the control of universities, to
educate students? An Education in Facebook? provides a broad
discussion of the issues educators are already facing on college
campuses worldwide, particularly in areas such as privacy,
copyright and social media etiquette. By examining current uses of
Facebook in university settings, this book offers both a thorough
analytical critique as well as practical advice for educators and
administrators looking to find ways to thoughtfully integrate
Facebook and other digital communication tools into their
classrooms and campuses.
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