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Bridging the Disability Divide? Young Children's and Teenager's with Disability Internet Experiences in Greece

Pages 146-162
Published online: 22 Aug 2013
 
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Given the overall paucity of research on youngsters with disability, and the ways they participate in online culture, this paper wishes to unpack the norms and divisions that become enacted or undone through online technologies and the impact these may have on the everyday practices of children and teenagers with disability in Greece. Based on our interviews with 20 youngsters with physical, and/or cognitive difficulties, or deafness, and premised on a socially constructed notion of disability and childhood, we support the view that social and digital exclusion are inextricably linked and that online technologies are differentially used in order to compensate for the physical, communicative, identity and socializing shortcomings of different kinds of impairment.

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Liza Tsaliki

Liza Tsaliki (author to whom correspondence should be addressed), is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics (media@LSE). For more details and a publication record, visit http://www2.media.uoa.gr/people/tsaliki/. E-mail:

Sonia Kontogianni

Sonia Kontogianni holds a B.A (Hons) from the Department of Political Science and Administrative Law and was recently awarded her Master's degree from the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media, both at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. E-mail:

 

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