"This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the
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collection brings together theoretical and applied research evidence on three vulnerable population categories: ethnic minorities, older people and people with disabilities. Each section is accompanied by a critical commentary on the research insights presented, from third sector community and policy experts. The collection explores whether vulnerable populations face similar experiences and challenges in relation to their digital inclusion status, stressing the central presence of intersectionality, and arguing for the inclusion of the age, ethnicity/immigration status and disability aspects of one's identity. At the same time, it argues for multi-directional action that tackles intersectional discrimination in the digital realm on behalf of more than one single population category or group. Challenging popular discourse on the overcoming of digital inequalities in the West, this essential book contends that accounts of non-western contexts do not focus on the parameter of vulnerability or on particular population groups." (Publisher description)
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"I spoke to 14 journalists with disabilities in India who painted a vivid picture of the barriers they face to joining the industry, finding employment, and thriving in the workplace. And what affects these journalists translates into media products that reflect a lack of accessibility for our audie
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nces, too. But all hope is not lost: there are clear and replicable steps and strategies that can be adopted to cut the curb in Indian newsrooms. When I set out on this project, I was disturbed by a lack of inclusion of the disability community in COVID-19 coverage. I wondered whether disabled reporters on staff in Indian newsrooms could advocate for better coverage. But when I went looking for them, I couldn’t find more than a handful who were full-time employees. The absence of a thriving community for disabled journalists surprised me. There are myriad support groups for journalists, and myriad disability groups – but nothing connecting the two." (Conclusion)
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"Mittels einer Onlineumfrage und Publikumsgesprächen wurde bei seh- und hörbeeinträchtigten Personen ermittelt, welche Medienangebote sie nutzen und wie sie diese beurteilen. Die barrierefreien Angebote im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk werden grundsätzlich sehr geschätzt. Es wird aber auch V
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erbesserungspotenzial und der Wunsch nach einer Ausweitung der Angebote benannt. Auch konkrete Informationen über barrierefreie Angebote gilt es zu optimieren." (Seite 109)
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"Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today
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it is not unusual to see a big-budget production about the pursuit of social justice or the protection of civil liberties contending for the top spot at the box office. With that cultural shift has come a diversification of film subjects, which range from undocumented workers’ rights to the sexual harassment experienced by women to high-school bullying to the struggles among people with disabilities to gain inclusion within a society that has transformed significantly since winning democratic freedoms three decades ago. Combining in-depth textual analyses of films such as Bleak Night, Okja, Planet of Snail, Repatriation, and Silenced with broader historical contextualization, Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of South Korean cinema’s role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across several identity-based categories." (Publisher description)
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"La primera parte invita a reflexionar sobre los criterios de noticiabilidad y el uso de emociones en los contenidos comunicacionales, explora formas discursivas, propone una estructura de construcción de héroes y plantea algunas interrogantes para identificar estereotipos y falsos paradigmas en l
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as comunicaciones. La segunda parte está orientada hacia el lenguaje, la evolución del concepto de discapacidad y sus diferentes modelos. Asimismo, se sugieren ejemplos para reflexionar respecto al contenido y abarca algunas pinceladas mínimas de análisis del discurso y fundamentos de lingüística. En la tercera parte se expone un análisis crítico sobre el tratamiento de informaciones relativas a personas con discapacidad en el contexto dominicano, se presentan los resultados de un levantamiento hecho por nuestro equipo en los periódicos El Nuevo Diario, Hoy, Listín Diario, El Caribe y Diario Libre sobre el caso de La Lotería. El abordaje del estudio es propositivo, analiza conceptos y las interpretaciones narrativas que estos sugieren, invita a reflexionar respecto a cómo se construyen los relatos sociales a través de los canales de comunicación utilizados en los espacios periodísticos y organizacionales." (Página 7)
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"[...] la presente Guía Práctica aspira a condensar soluciones posibles y recomendaciones relativas a la multiplicidad de variantes que hay que tener en cuenta al momento de construir productos de difusión que consideren las distintas necesidades de accesibilidad para incluir a todas las personas
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. También vale adelantar que, de ser viable, resultará conveniente contar, para cada producto, con la validación por parte de usuarios con formación en accesibilidad para personas con discapacidad, personas mayores o con poca alfabetización digital, o recurrir a la validación por parte de usuarios con discapacidad. Ello habrá de generar un aporte muy valioso desde la perspectiva experiencial, ya que facilitará la realización de ajustes razonables y fundamentados en cada producto. A continuación abordamos, en forma de guía simple, distintos aspectos que deben ser considerados a la hora de elaborar diversos productos de comunicación, sea para el desarrollo de campañas de comunicación, con propósitos educativos, periodísticos, etcétera." (Página 6)
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"La présente étude, réalisée dans le cadre des projets régionaux d'éducation inclusive mis en oeuvre par Humanité & Inclusion, avait pour objectif : de répertorier les TIC existantes et susceptibles de favoriser l'inclusion scolaire des enfants handicapés; d'identifier les défis à la mise
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en place de ces TIC dans les salles de classe de certains pays francophones d'intervention d'Humanité & Inclusion, à savoir le Bénin, le Burkina Faso, Madagascar, le Mali, le Maroc, le Niger, le Senegal et le Togo. Le présent rapport est accompagné d'un répertoire de TIC pour l'education inclusive, qui présente l'ensemble des TIC identifiées au cours de l'étude." (Dos de couverture)
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"In this manual, we discuss key disability issues, key messages and principles for journalists wanting to support the human rights of Africans with disabilities. The manual also deals with terminology - it is about using words and that puts the person rather than the disability first. Jounalists wil
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l learn how to create disability programs that resonate with their audiences and encourage wider PwDs (Persons with Disability) participation at every level of the society despite the barriers they must deal with [...] This manual has been developed for handling the workshops based on the contents of the guide. It provides guidelines and tools for a three-day workshop on the guide." (Pages 3-4)
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"To ensure that mobile solutions are designed inclusively in humanitarian contexts, it is important that target users are involved as co-creators of the future they want. A human-centred design approach is one way to ensure that users’ perspectives are fully integrated into programme design. This
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approach is also useful for work involving marginalised populations, including refugees and people with disabilities, as these populations tend to have fewer opportunities to voice their experiences and influence decisionmaking processes. At the same time, they face complex systemic challenges. To shape solutions that will effectively address these challenges, their perspective is absolutely critical. Human-centred design research methodologies are well suited to the challenge because they bring the perspective of this end user to the forefront. This report documents the human-centred design process used in a project conducted in 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya. It includes research tools that can be used in other contexts, as well as the adaptations that were made to research tools to ensure they were inclusive. These are documented in the two page spreads below: Location Mapping, User Journeys, Communication Mapping, Future Me and Daily Diaries. These tools are followed by the main lessons learned, and recommendations for others who want to implement a similar process. More research should be conducted to better understand the experiences of people with disabilities in humanitarian contexts." (Executive summary)
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"Drawing on a wide range of case studies addressing how people can be ‘othered’ in contemporary media, the chapters focus on analyses of hateful discourses about disability on Reddit, news coverage of disability and education, media access of individuals with disabilities, the logic of memes and
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brain tumour on Twitter, celebrity and Down Syndrome on Instagram, disability in TV drama, the metaphor of disability for the nation as well as an autoethnography of treatment of breast cancer. Providing a much-needed global perspective, Disability, Media, and Representations examines the relationship between self-representation and representations in either reinforcing or debunking myths around disability, and ways in which academic discourse can be differently articulated to study the relationship between media and disability." (Publisher description)
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"This book, the first to specifically focus on disability hate speech, explains what disability hate speech is, why it is important, what laws regulate it (both online and in person) and how it is different from other forms of hate. Unfortunately, disability is often ignored or overlooked in academi
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c, legal, political, and cultural analyses of the broader problem of hate speech. Its unique personal, ideological, economic, political and legal dimensions have not been recognized - until now. Disability hate speech is an everyday experience for many people, leaving terrible psycho-emotional scars. This book includes personal testimonies from victims discussing the personal impact of disability hate speech, explaining in detail how such hatred affects them. It also presents legal, historical, psychological, and cultural analyses, including the results of the first surveys and in-depth interviews ever conducted on this topic in some countries." (Publisher description)
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