IDEA BOARD
"Online social networking sites reproduce and mediate community by reinventing aspects of a local village in this global environment"
"because people are more willing to share personal information over the internet than in face to face conversations, youth with learning disability, and other 'special needs' are able to express their feelings more easily because the fear of social rejection is removed"
impairment vs. disability
inaccessibility----constantly changing its interface rarely without complaint by disabled and able-bodied users
since made by students----failure of education system to teach inclusion of disability
accused of perpetrating race and class inequalities
skewing to top socio-economic class makes perfect sense as active business strategy
facebook for the blind?? vision impaired ?? cognitively impaired??
mobile devices???
The abled bodied
"Online social networking sites reproduce and mediate community by reinventing aspects of a local village in this global environment"
"because people are more willing to share personal information over the internet than in face to face conversations, youth with learning disability, and other 'special needs' are able to express their feelings more easily because the fear of social rejection is removed"
impairment vs. disability
inaccessibility----constantly changing its interface rarely without complaint by disabled and able-bodied users
since made by students----failure of education system to teach inclusion of disability
accused of perpetrating race and class inequalities
skewing to top socio-economic class makes perfect sense as active business strategy
facebook for the blind?? vision impaired ?? cognitively impaired??
mobile devices???
The abled bodied