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标题：Scottish Disability Organizations and Online Media: A Path to Empowerment or “Business as Usual”?
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作者：Filippo Trevisan
期刊名称：Disability Studies Quarterly
印刷版ISSN：2159-8371
出版年度：2014
卷号：34
期号：3
DOI：10.18061/dsq.v34i3.3359
语种：English
出版社：The Ohio State University Libraries
其他摘要：Normal 0 14 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Can online media help disabled people become more engaged in the organizations that represent their interests in the public arena? Using a combination of Web content analysis and qualitative interviews, this article investigates whether online communications are challenging traditional patterns of power distribution in Scottish disability organizations. Overall, empirical findings only partially matched expectations that member-led groups would be more inclined than ‘professionalized’ charities to embrace interactive online media. Although most groups acknowledged the Internet’s potential to empower disabled users, none of them deliberately pursued that outcome through their respective Web outlets. Instead, conservative views on the Internet prevailed across the entire organizational spectrum. Nonetheless, the analysis revealed also that such ‘minimalistic’ approach to online media was in fact underpinned by very different motives for disability non-profits on one side and self-advocacy groups on the other.
关键词：Internet; advocacy; disability organizations; empowerment; Scotland.
其他关键词：Internet;advocacy;disability organizations;empowerment;Scotland.