Brownlow, Charlotte and O'Dell, Lindsay and Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Hanna (2013) Commentary: challenging representations of autism – exploring possibilities for broadcasting the self on YouTube. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 19 (1). pp. 90-95. ISSN 1188-9136
Abstract
YouTube offers potential for many to broadcast their own ideas and concepts to a broad international audience. The take up of YouTube by people with autism as a space for advocacy and awareness raising is discussed in this paper, and the benefits of the environment for enabling people with autism to portray autism in positive and enabling ways are considered. The distinction between knowledge of autism produced within a scientific,medicalised deficit framework as opposed to an experiential knowledge of those with autism themselves is as evident in online spaces such as YouTube as it is in face to face environments,and the wider potential impacts of online spaces on face to face environments will be considered.
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| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Refereed: | No |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | © Ontario Association on Developmental Disabilities. |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Sciences - Department of Psychology |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2013 23:59 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2018 02:01 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | YouTube; autism |
| Fields of Research : | 13 Education > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education > 130312 Special Education and Disability |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/24370 |
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