Disability and Biomediation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mack Hagood
Keyword(s):  
Medical Model ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability

The medical mediation of bodily differences can be fraught, and many scholars have shown how the combination of media and medicine can produce disablement according to biopolitical norms. Mack Hagood proposes a framework for the study of biomediation that disentangles medical uses of media technologies from the medical model of disability. Using tinnitus as his case study, he demonstrates the value of this framework for understanding the complex role of media in both biological and political struggles over disability and disabled identities.

The Janus face of social media and democracy? Reflections on Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Mutsvairo ◽  
Helge Rønning
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Political Processes

The purpose of this issue of Media Culture and Society is to discuss the possible role of social media in the struggle for democracy, against authoritarianism, and over hidden power structures. The articles included in this volume are meant to offer empirical interventions to beliefs, some of them unproven, on whether the emergence of new media technologies has driven Africa towards democratic change. Papers in this Special Issue cover a wide variety of African countries delving deep into comparative studies of participatory citizens’ media on the continent. This introduction is an attempt to offer an explanation on African democratisation and authoritarianism before conceptualising the role of social media in political processes with the backing of current case study dispatches in Africa, demonstrating the dilemmas of digital disparities in promoting or denting democratisation in Africa.

scholarly journals Constructing Ableism

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Stephanie Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dual Process ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability ◽  
Nineteenth Century United States ◽  
Political Technology

This essay builds upon research in disability studies through the extension of Garland-Thomson’s figure of the normate. I argue that biopower, through the disciplinary normalization of individual bodies and the biopolitics of populations, in the nineteenth-century United States produced the normate citizen as a white, able-bodied man. The normate citizen developed with the new political technology of power that emerged with the transition from sovereign power to biopower. I focus on the disciplinary normalization of bodies and the role of industrial capitalism in the construction of able-bodied norms. I argue that the medical model of disability is produced through a dual process of incorporation: the production of corporeal individuals and the localization of illness in the body.

“Just Going to a Spin Class”: Participant Experiences of Inclusion Within an Integrated Indoor Cycling Program

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Joanna M. Auger ◽  
Nancy L.I. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
Ethics Framework ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Class B ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability ◽  
And Training

Justifications for access to physical activity for people who experience disability tend to focus on the health benefits associated with a medical model of disability. The result is often programs that are segregated and impairment-focused, with limited access to integrated settings that are also potentially inclusive. In this instrumental case study, the authors engaged 20 participants with and without impairment from an adult integrated indoor cycling program to explore what contributed to meaningful and inclusive experiences in this setting. Data were generated through semistructured interviews and reflective notes. Thematic analysis led to three themes: (a) “just going to a spin class” (b) “seamless”? and (c) “deliberate community.” Using a relational ethics framework, the findings are discussed with regard to their potential to inform the development of integrated and inclusive physical activity programs, with emphasis on program structure and instructor reflexivity and training.

Tlowitsis Re-Imagined

2011 ◽  
pp. 158-179
Author(s):  
Jon Corbett ◽  
Raquel Mann
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Media ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Participatory Video ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Geographic Barriers

Using the case study of the Tlowitsis, a dispersed indigenous community in British Columbia, Canada, this paper explores the role of ICTs, and in particular participatory video, in nation building. Also, the paper identifies factors that affect both the involvement and exclusion of the membership and addresses the challenges faced and lessons learned. ICTs, in particular new media technologies, offer great potential to overcome the geographic barriers caused by dispersal. However, it remains uncertain how they might contribute to the process of nation building. In this regard, the authors present six fundamental requirements for nation building, and then use these requirements to structure an analysis of the Tlowitsis case study.

scholarly journals Social Model: A New Approach of the Disability Theme

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 816-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Neves da Silva Bampi ◽  
Dirce Guilhem ◽  
Elioenai Dornelles Alves
Keyword(s):  
Medical Model ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Medical Model Of Disability ◽  
Points Of View

The experience of disability is part of the daily lives of people who have a disease, lesion or corporal limitation. Disability is still understood as personal bad luck; moreover, from the social and political points of view, the disabled are seen as a minority. The aim of this study is to contribute to the knowledge about the experience of disability. The research presents a new approach on the theme: the social model. This approach appeared as an alternative to the medical model of disability, which sees the lesion as the primary cause of social inequality and of the disadvantages experienced by the disabled, ignoring the role of social structures in their oppression and marginalization. The study permits reflecting on how the difficulties and barriers society imposed on people considered different make disability a reality and portray social injustice and the vulnerability situation lived by excluded groups.

Tlowitsis Re-Imagined

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Corbett ◽  
Raquel Mann
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Media ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Participatory Video ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Geographic Barriers

Using the case study of the Tlowitsis, a dispersed indigenous community in British Columbia, Canada, this paper explores the role of ICTs, and in particular participatory video, in nation building. Also, the paper identifies factors that affect both the involvement and exclusion of the membership and addresses the challenges faced and lessons learned. ICTs, in particular new media technologies, offer great potential to overcome the geographic barriers caused by dispersal. However, it remains uncertain how they might contribute to the process of nation building. In this regard, the authors present six fundamental requirements for nation building, and then use these requirements to structure an analysis of the Tlowitsis case study.

scholarly journals Social media power for protest in Indonesia: The Yogyakarta’s #gejayanmemanggil case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 541
Author(s):  
Ariza Fuadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Media Power ◽  
The Impact

Hashtag #GejayanMemanggil (Gejayan is Calling) became a trending topic on social media one day before the protest against several problematic laws, and the bills that were going to be passed. At that time, activists had successfully circulated the issues to the public through social media. As a result, at least 5000 protesters had joined in the protest in Yogyakarta. This phenomenon showed activeness of Indonesia’s civil society in the movement by involving digital media technologies. The author argued that social media allows the citizens, either communal or individual, to disseminate the issue and encourage others to join the protest in such short notice. This article aims to describe the role of social media and the impact of mobilisation through social media through the hashtag #GejayanMemanggil in the Yogyakarta movement. The qualitative method was employed to examine the phenomenon of the protests and to describe the role of social media. The data in this study was taken from online news, the official account of the movement, and blog posts. The results indicated that social media has the potential to trigger Indonesians to express their willingness and participate in activism.

The role of multiplicity in a cult: A case study

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Worrall ◽  
Ann W. Stockman
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