Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Social disability; PART I Advocacy; 2 Social media and deaf empowerment: The Polish deaf communities' online fight for representation; 3 Personal reflections on the #107days campaign: Transformative, subversive or accidental?; 4 Confirming normalcy: 'Inspiration porn' and the construction of the disabled subject?; 5 Bedding Out: Art, activism and Twitter; PART II Access; 6 The growing importance of accessible social media. 7 Transport me℗þsadapte℗þ: Exploring online disability activism in Montre℗þal8 Interactive inclusive̐́™¯℗¿,́™¯designing tools for activism and empowerment; 9 New media and accessible emergency communications: A United States-based meta analysis; PART III Communications; 10 Social media use and mediated sociality among individuals with communication disabilities in the digital age; 11 #Socialconversations: Disability representation and audio description on Marvel's Daredevil; 12 Articulating vulnerability and interdependence in networked social space. 13 Social media and disability inclusion: Critical refl ections of a Zimbabwean activistPART IV Education; 14 Opportunities for eLearning, social media and disability; 15 A phenomenology of media making experience: Disability studies and wearable cameras; 16 Blackboard as in/accessible social media: Updating education, teaching and learning; 17 Dyslexics 'knowing how' to challenge 'lexism'; PART V Community; 18 'Talking my language': The AthletesFirst project and the use of blogging in virtual disability sport communities. 19 Posting autism: Online self-representation strategies in Tistje, a Flemish blog on Living on the spectrum from the front row20 From awareness to inclusion: Creating bridges with the disability community through social media and civil society in Japan; PART VI New directions; 21 Self-representation considerations for people who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and social media; 22 Disability, social media and religious discourse: An Arabian example.

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.