Journalism and digital social media: participation and visibility networks of people with disability

• Autor(a) principal: ALMEIDA, Lia R. Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Âncora - Revista Latino-americana de Jornalismo
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ancora/article/view/25961
• topic: Deficiência; Mídias sociais digitais; Visibilidade; Jornalismo e Cidadania; Biossociabilidade.; Disability; Digital Social Media; Public visaibility; Journalism and Citizenship; Biosociability.

According to the Census of 2010, 23.9% of the brazilian population declared that have some kind of disability. Despite of the representativeness of this part of the population, people with disability, in general, do not generate visibility in the traditional media. Based on this assessment, this work explains the growing use of digital media as an alternative way of communication and relationship of people with disability and others that have interests in this issue. It is, therefore, an exploration of new trends related to the creation of alternative spaces of publicizing information and visibility of disability. From the idea of biosociability and social inclusion, this article reflects what kind of contribution these spaces can bring to the process of democratization and qualification of the information and other effects on the treatment given by the brazilian media on the various aspects related to disability.