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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Bridging the Disability Divide? Young Children's and Teenager's with Disability Internet Experiences in Greece
Pages 146-162
Published online: 22 Aug 2013