Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
Hi Phillipa, Below is a NZ-based study I use in my media identities course. It's a bit dated but I find both the approach and material to be quite effective. I think it might be along the lines of what you're looking for: Disability Discourses for Online Identities Bowker N.; Tuffin K. Disability & Society, Volume 17, Number 3, 1 May 2002, pp. 327-344 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687590220139883 The journal Disability & Society has a number of articles you may find of interest: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdso20/17/3 Best Jonathan Albright PhD Candidate Professional Teaching Fellow FTVMS University of Auckland jalb013@aucklanduni.ac.nz On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:17 AM, <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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1. Announcement Hot Seats & Networked Learning Conference (Jeffrey Keefer) 2. Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities (Philippa Smith) 3. Reminder: Call For Papers: iCS/CITASA Special Issue of Papers from 2013 ASA Meeting? (Earl, Jennifer Suzanne - (jenniferearl)) 4. Re: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities (John McNutt) 5. Re: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities (michael gurstein) 6. critical work on Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities? (Gerard Goggin) 7. Re: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities (Robyn Longhurst) 8. Re: critical work on Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities? (Andrew Clark) 9. FW: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities (Peter Timusk) 10. Web impact excluding link farms and other black SEO practices (Isidro F. Aguillo) 11. Re: FW: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities (Joly MacFie) 12. Online Teaching Opportunities and Practices (Michael Baron) 13. Re: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities (Filippo Trevisan) 14. Re: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities (Yeshua-Katz, Daphna)
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 20:25:20 -0400 From: Jeffrey Keefer <jk904@nyu.edu> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Announcement Hot Seats & Networked Learning Conference Message-ID: <FCB89FBC-E76A-44FC-91E4-83F42F2D94F7@nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Announcement: Hot Seats & Networked Learning Conference
We are pleased to announce our third Hot Seat series where researchers and practitioners meet online to share about timely issues under the guidance of leading experts in the area of Networked Learning. Each Hot Seat will be open for the duration of one week.
We have scheduled 7 interesting topics during the period between September ? March. Full details may be found below: http://networkedlearningconference.ning.com/
This season?s Hot Seat series will begin September 29 with Nancy White and John Smith addressing ?Blind spots, black holes and the heaven and hell of tightly bounded communities.? Please feel free join this open dialogue; it is free and all are welcome.
The Hot Seats are an initiative in collaboration with the Networked Learning Conference, which this year will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in April 2014. Submission deadline for papers is October 4th. The site is now open for submissions. Check the conference website for further details: http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/
We hope to welcome you online in the Hot Seats and join the lively conversation,
Jeffrey Keefer & Maarten de Laat
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 02:09:52 +0000 From: Philippa Smith <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz> To: "Air list (air-l@listserv.aoir.org)" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Message-ID: < 986354EA83BEAA429DB60BBA1C2E41B55D7B60BD@Patterson.autuni.aut.ac.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Dear AOIR members,
I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment.
I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful.
Kind regards
Philippa
Philippa K Smith, PhD Research Manager Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication AUT University Auckland NEW ZEALAND
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 02:42:48 +0000 From: "Earl, Jennifer Suzanne - (jenniferearl)" <jenniferearl@email.arizona.edu> To: "'COMMUNICATION_AND_INFO_TECH-ANNO@LISTSERV.ASANET.ORG'" <COMMUNICATION_AND_INFO_TECH-ANNO@LISTSERV.ASANET.ORG>, "citasa@list.citasa.org" <citasa@list.citasa.org>, "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Cc: "Katrina Kimport \(kimportk@obgyn.ucsf.edu\)" <kimportk@obgyn.ucsf.edu> Subject: [Air-L] Reminder: Call For Papers: iCS/CITASA Special Issue of Papers from 2013 ASA Meeting? Message-ID: < C8BD370BE42EF544B5A8A81AEA9676AD45DFE5D8@BigThunder.catnet.arizona.edu>
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Dear Colleagues,
?
For the seventh year, the journal Information, Communication & Society (iCS, published by Routledge) ?will publish a special issue in cooperation with the ASA section on Communication ?and Information Technologies (CITASA). The special issue will be comprised of papers ?presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York, New York that focus on issues of social media, technology, communication, information, or other related topics. Jennifer Earl (University of Arizona) and Katrina Kimport (University of California, San Francisco) will be the ?editors. ?
We invite you to submit a paper that was presented at the ASA 2013 meetings for consideration in this special ?issue. Please submit manuscripts for consideration through ScholarOne, available at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rics. If you do not have an account, you will need to create one. Also, be sure to check the box for ?Special Issue? and indicate ?CITASA? in it, so that it will be routed appropriately.
?Submitted manuscripts should be a maximum of 6,000 words and should conform to the ?journal's submission guidelines; see http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rics20&page=i... .
Deadlines:
Full papers due: September 30, 2013
Refereeing completed: November 29, 2013
Final version of accepted papers due: January 10, 2014
Special issue publication (anticipated): June 2014 ?
Please contact us with any questions. We hope to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Earl
jenniferearl@email.arizona.edu
School of Sociology
University of Arizona
Chair, Communication and Information Technology Section<http://citasa.org/>, American Sociological Association
and
Katrina Kimport
kimportk@obgyn.ucsf.edu Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) University of California, San Francisco
Secretary/Treasurer, Communication and Information Technology Section< http://citasa.org/>, American Sociological Association
*********************************** Jennifer Earl Professor of Sociology Social Sciences 421 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027
Phone: (520) 621-3296 ***********************************
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Message: 4 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 22:46:20 -0400 From: "John McNutt" <mcnuttjg@netzero.com> To: "'Philippa Smith'" <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz>, "'Air list'" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Message-ID: <004b01cea918$efd66ec0$cf834c40$@netzero.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Try looking at the literature in assistive technology. There is some very good theoretical material and a lot of practical literature. It is a robust field and almost all of it deals with the problems of the physically and mentally challenged (not all of it, however, deals with ICTs). Good luck with your search.
John McNutt Professor University of Delaware
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Philippa Smith Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:10 PM To: Air list (air-l@listserv.aoir.org) Subject: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
Dear AOIR members,
I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment.
I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful.
Kind regards
Philippa
Philippa K Smith, PhD Research Manager Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication AUT University Auckland NEW ZEALAND _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Message: 5 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:56:05 +0700 From: "michael gurstein" <gurstein@gmail.com> To: "'Philippa Smith'" <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz>, "'Air list'" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Cc: lareen.newman@flinders.edu.au, ciresearchers@vancouvercommunity.net Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Message-ID: <06dd01cea91a$55055620$ff100260$@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Philippa,
I'll draw your attention to the special issues of the Journal of Community Informatics (Vol 9, No 2 (2013)) on "Community Informatics for Improving Health" http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/40 and (Vol 8, No 1 (2012)) on "Community Informatics and Older Persons" http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/33
While not specifically addressing disability issues some of the articles would, I think, be of interest.
Best,
Mike
Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics web: http://ci-journal.net email: gurstein@gmail.com
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Philippa Smith Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 9:10 AM To: Air list (air-l@listserv.aoir.org) Subject: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
Dear AOIR members,
I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment.
I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful.
Kind regards
Philippa
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Message: 6 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 03:10:00 +0000 From: Gerard Goggin <gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au> To: 'Air list' <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] critical work on Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities? Message-ID: <CE4CE000.156F22%gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Philippa, and Air-L colleagues,
Great that you are embarking on this project.
Just to add to John and Michael's suggestions, my observation - having co-authored the 2003 'Digital Disability' book, & written various things since - is while there is now much more research/literature available on Internet and disabilities, there is still surprisingly little critical literature on disability and the Internet.
There is Katie Ellis and Mike Kent's terrific 'Disability & New Media' (2011, Routledge), as well as Mike Jaeger's 'Disability & the Internet: Confronting a Digital Divide' (Rienner, 2011).
Also very important is Karen Peltz Strauss's 'A New Civil Right: Telecommunications Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans' (Gaulladet, 2006).
And quite a few other important papers, not least the special issue of ICS you note.
However, and I hope I'm wrong on this, the potential cross-over between, say, Internet studies, and, on the other hand, critical disability studies lies ahead.
Now, the point you raise about the intersection between health and disability in relation to Internet technologies is interesting.
My theory is that there is a lot of health technologies that are really about disability (or engage disability & design in some way). But this is not recognised.
And, here's my simple version of the argument, this is because the biomedical model is dominant in relation to health technologies -- rather than an acknowledgement of the social/cultural/political shaping of disability (and health) in what we take to be interventions into health and well-being.
In any case, I hope this is useful, and very best wishes with your research.
Gerard Goggin
-- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Gerard Goggin Professor and Chair Department of Media and Communications University of Sydney
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On 4/09/13 12:46 PM, "John McNutt" <mcnuttjg@netzero.com> wrote:
Try looking at the literature in assistive technology. There is some very good theoretical material and a lot of practical literature. It is a robust field and almost all of it deals with the problems of the physically and mentally challenged (not all of it, however, deals with ICTs). Good luck with your search.
John McNutt Professor University of Delaware
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Philippa Smith Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:10 PM To: Air list (air-l@listserv.aoir.org) Subject: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
Dear AOIR members,
I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment.
I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful.
Kind regards
Philippa
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Message: 7 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 15:14:00 +1200 From: Robyn Longhurst <robynl@waikato.ac.nz> To: Philippa Smith <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz> Cc: "Air list \(air-l@listserv.aoir.org\)" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Message-ID: < CAH+4JqCeFixP0GYR83QD9Hzy4KrkqhsvrOzgfUbWaUWJX4Ga2Q@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi Philippa
I really like geographer Joyce Davidson's article:
Davidson, J. 2008: Autistic culture online: virtual communication and cultural expression on the spectrum, *Social & Cultural Geography*, 9, 7, 791-806
Cheers Robyn
Robyn Longhurst Professor Geography Programme School of Social Sciences Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Waikato Private Bag 3105 Hamilton Aotearoa New Zealand
Robyn Longhurst Professor of Geography Geography Programme School of Social Sciences Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The University of Waikato Private Bag 3105 Hamilton 3240 Aotearoa New Zealand
Tel +64 7 856 2889 Ext 8306 Fax +64 7 8384633
On 4 September 2013 14:09, Philippa Smith <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz> wrote:
Dear AOIR members,
I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment.
I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful.
Kind regards
Philippa
Philippa K Smith, PhD Research Manager Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication AUT University Auckland NEW ZEALAND _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Message: 8 Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:48:33 +1000 From: Andrew Clark <andrewrclark@mac.com> To: Gerard Goggin <gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au> Cc: Air list <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] critical work on Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities? Message-ID: <482A9858-CA67-4473-9A0B-40F61212A1F1@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Gerard
Hi - I would agree with your broad point. However I think one needs to be careful when using the term disability when in fact describing impairment. Many technological devices designed to enhance functional capacity are a response to impairment. In essence as you note this is a bio mechanical response to a persons impairment.
Disablement is a much broader concept encompassing technological / social / cultural / economic exclusion resulting from the impairment.
It is in the exclusion we learn a lot about privilege and perceived norms. For example in a multicultural countries such as Australia, Canada etc the publicly anthropometric measurements are based on a very small subset of body shapes and sizes - generally young men women joining armed forces. As a result, they exclude a broad range of people from the supposed norm. So design and concepts of universal design are fundamentally flawed, as they are based on a set of data which at its core is exclusionary.
Those are just a few thoughts
Andrew Clark
Andrew Clark
On 04/09/2013, at 1:10 PM, Gerard Goggin <gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au> wrote:
Hi Philippa, and Air-L colleagues,
Great that you are embarking on this project.
Just to add to John and Michael's suggestions, my observation - having co-authored the 2003 'Digital Disability' book, & written various things since - is while there is now much more research/literature available on Internet and disabilities, there is still surprisingly little critical literature on disability and the Internet.
There is Katie Ellis and Mike Kent's terrific 'Disability & New Media' (2011, Routledge), as well as Mike Jaeger's 'Disability & the Internet: Confronting a Digital Divide' (Rienner, 2011).
Also very important is Karen Peltz Strauss's 'A New Civil Right: Telecommunications Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans' (Gaulladet, 2006).
And quite a few other important papers, not least the special issue of ICS you note.
However, and I hope I'm wrong on this, the potential cross-over between, say, Internet studies, and, on the other hand, critical disability studies lies ahead.
Now, the point you raise about the intersection between health and disability in relation to Internet technologies is interesting.
My theory is that there is a lot of health technologies that are really about disability (or engage disability & design in some way). But this is not recognised.
And, here's my simple version of the argument, this is because the biomedical model is dominant in relation to health technologies -- rather than an acknowledgement of the social/cultural/political shaping of disability (and health) in what we take to be interventions into health and well-being.
In any case, I hope this is useful, and very best wishes with your research.
Gerard Goggin
-- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Gerard Goggin Professor and Chair Department of Media and Communications University of Sydney
e: gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au
<applewebdata://58CAECF0-6F6E-47A3-9980-953EE0F9094E/gerard.goggin@sydney.e
du.au> p: +61 2 9114 1218 m: +61 428 66 88 24 w: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/staff/gerard_goggin.shtml
On 4/09/13 12:46 PM, "John McNutt" <mcnuttjg@netzero.com> wrote:
Try looking at the literature in assistive technology. There is some very good theoretical material and a lot of practical literature. It is a robust field and almost all of it deals with the problems of the physically and mentally challenged (not all of it, however, deals with ICTs). Good luck with your search.
John McNutt Professor University of Delaware
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Philippa Smith Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:10 PM To: Air list (air-l@listserv.aoir.org) Subject: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
Dear AOIR members,
I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment.
I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful.
Kind regards
Philippa
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Message: 9 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 02:57:27 -0400 From: Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca> To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] FW: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Message-ID: <COL126-W221323BEED52B5F4C10108DC320@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Some thoughts from me a disabled person.
From: ptimusk@sympatico.ca To: philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz Subject: RE: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 22:18:01 -0400
I would say for mental health issues you might look at poverty as a factor. Also hundreds of thousands of persons with disabilities in Ontario my home province in Canada and I know many, many more in the USA live with government income support. Which means not enough money to live on properly. You can't look at disability in the west without looking at poverty.
What really is accessibility on the web given this massive poverty factor.
Also I remember a homeless person telling me at a protest that homeless people have e-mail address when discussing how to campaign.
From: philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 02:09:52 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
Dear AOIR members,
I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment.
I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful.
Kind regards
Philippa
Philippa K Smith, PhD Research Manager Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication AUT University Auckland NEW ZEALAND _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Message: 10 Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:07:13 +0200 From: "Isidro F. Aguillo" <isidro.aguillo@cchs.csic.es> To: SIGMETRICS@listserv.utk.edu, web4lib@webjunction.org, "Scientometrics, Informetrics and Cybermetrics" <ISSI@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org, acumen-list@googlegroups.com, University and College Webmasters <uwebd@listserver.itd.umich.edu> Subject: [Air-L] Web impact excluding link farms and other black SEO practices Message-ID: <5226DC21.7070808@cchs.csic.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
The second 2013 edition of the *Ranking Web (Webometrics) of Universities*, including more than 21000 higher education Institutions has been published:
*http://www.webometrics.info/*
The rank is based on a composite indicator that combines webometric and bibliometric variables, the first ones collected from the Web during the last July while the second one is the updated Excellence indicator (the 10% most cited papers in 21 disciplines) for the years 2007-2011 (SIR).
Major innovation is a new method for calculating web visibility or impact, the most important variable (50%) for the composite indicator used for building the Ranking. The former method consists of combining the number of domains originating the inlinks to the university webdomain (backdomains) and the square root of the total number of those inlinks: sqr(backlinks). In this way it was possible to grant proper recognition not only to most popular web contents or most prestigious institutions but also to the diversity and strength of the impact sources.
Unfortunately a few webmasters choose the easy way to obtain additional link visibility contracting external services of link farms or creating their own ones by forcing scholars and students to overlink to the university webdomain from external blogs or similar social tools.
In the current edition the top 10, an arbitrary number that is open to future modifications, sources (domains) of links and all the involved links are excluded from the impact indicator. For most of the universities this action exclude student blogs, sports teams pages, non-academic forums, alternative domains and mostly local sources of links, so true global impact is left as main component. Obviously bad practices are strongly penalized with the new system. In a few cases hacked websites due to poor management of the webmasters are being overlinked for more than ten domains, including nasty sources like pornographic, fake-products selling or hate pages. We are identifying these individual cases for exclusion.
On the positive side, we expect this change will promote internationalization of the contents. Webometrics is not only ranking websites but the overall performance of the universities. In that sense, it has a clear advantage on other similar rankings where results are obtained only after long-term efforts. A strong and well directed web policy involving not only ICT departments but everybody else in the university is going to have a huge impact in the Ranking.
Current leaders by region are:
*North America*: Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley *Latin America*: Sao Paulo, UNAM, Campinas, Buenos Aires *Europe:* Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, ETH Zurich *Eastern & Central Europe:* Lomonosov Moscow State University *Asia:* National Singapore, Tsinghua, Tokyo, National Taiwan *Africa: *Kwazulu Natal, Cape Town, Stellenbosch *Oceania:* Australian National University, Monash, Melbourne, UNSW *Middle East:* Tel Aviv *Arab World:* King Saud *South Asia:* IIT Bombay
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isidro.aguillo@csic.es ORCID: 0000-0001-8927-4873 ResearcherID: A-7280-2008 Scholar Citations: SaCSbeoAAAAJ Twitter: @isidroaguillo Rankings Web: webometrics.info
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Message: 11 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 05:56:20 -0400 From: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> To: Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca> Cc: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] FW: Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Message-ID: < CAM9VJk3S73WYXqbFbmM-Uw0se_Y6GwyUPJMryoXgYA0oix8Nkw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
The Internet Society issued a paper earlier in the year -
Internet use by persons with disabilities: Moving Forward
http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/internet-accessibility-internet-use-perso...
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Some thoughts from me a disabled person.
From: ptimusk@sympatico.ca To: philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz Subject: RE: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 22:18:01 -0400
I would say for mental health issues you might look at poverty as a factor. Also hundreds of thousands of persons with disabilities in Ontario my home province in Canada and I know many, many more in the USA live with government income support. Which means not enough money to live on properly. You can't look at disability in the west without looking at poverty.
What really is accessibility on the web given this massive poverty factor.
Also I remember a homeless person telling me at a protest that homeless people have e-mail address when discussing how to campaign.
From: philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 02:09:52 +0000 Subject: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
Dear AOIR members,
I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment.
I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful.
Kind regards
Philippa
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Message: 12 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 20:30:52 +1000 From: Michael Baron <webbaron@gmail.com> To: air-l <Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Online Teaching Opportunities and Practices Message-ID: < CAEZjSsZ4ivEqYHC+L5uhz73hJDYSw6bhvGJeaGB+w2ehz-7XDw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Recently, I've been doing some e-teaching and I noticed that while e-learning content management systems (CMS) enable Universities not only deliver their programs worldwide but also to employ lecturers/course developers/coordinators from around the Globe, all of the institutions that I've been involved with, employ lecturing staff that is based locally (Australia). In 90% of the cases, the lecturers/tutors are expected to be based in the same city as the institution they are working for.
Given the online nature of the delivery, I am curious why the Melbourne-based training providers are so unwilling to employ internationally-acclaimed professors/trainers/course developers and whether Universities in other countries are managing their online staffing arrangements likewise or not.
Have their been any papers published on this topic? Are their any truly international Universities that recruit online teaching staff from all over the world?
Any feedback/suggestions will be appreciated. Michael Baron
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Message: 13 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:09:57 +0100 From: Filippo Trevisan <Filippo.Trevisan@glasgow.ac.uk> To: Philippa Smith <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz>, "Air list (air-l@listserv.aoir.org)" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Message-ID: <CE4CEF4A.F1E%filippo.trevisan@glasgow.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="euc-kr"
Hi Philippa,
Although it looks at the relationship between disability and the internet from a different perspective, you may also be interested in some of my work on the impact of online media on disability rights activism, particularly in relation to how these platforms have supported the emergence of a new generation of disabled self-advocates in recent years:
* Trevisan, Filippo (2013) ?Disabled People, Digital Campaigns, and Contentious Politics: Upload Successful or Connection Failed?,? in Scullion, R., Lilleker, D., Jackson, D., and Gerodimos, R., (eds.), The Media, Political Participation, and Empowerment, London: Routledge, pp. 175-91.
* Trevisan, Filippo (2012) ?ICTs for Empowerment? Disability Organisations and the Democratizing Potential of Web 2.0 in Scotland,? in Manoharan, A., and Holzer, M., (eds.), E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants of E-Democracy, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 381-404.
Pre-print versions of these and other papers can be accessed freely at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1531633
Also, I don't think anyone else has mentioned Ellcessor's work on accessibility in the U.S.:
* Ellcessor, E. (2010) BRIDGING DISABILITY DIVIDES <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691180903456546>: A critical history of web content accessibility through 2001 <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691180903456546>, Information, Communication and Society, 13(3): pp. 289-308.
While I completely agree on the need for advocates, technology developers and decision-makers to address access and accessibility problems as priorities, I also think we should be wary of conflating the complex relationship between disability and new media into digital divide issues. As there is so much more to be said about this, studying the experiences of disabled users in greater detail should be a key strand of the research agenda in this area.
All best,
Filippo
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On 04/09/2013 03:09, "Philippa Smith" <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz> wrote:
Dear AOIR members,
I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment.
I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful.
Kind regards
Philippa
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Message: 14 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 16:17:32 +0000 From: "Yeshua-Katz, Daphna" <dyeshuak@indiana.edu> To: "'Philippa Smith'" <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz>, "'Air list'" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities Message-ID: < 90DCA6618DEE404C981340E1E2D678DC0A8318F8@IU-MSSG-MBX103.ads.iu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
re: empowerment, I like this piece because it provides you a good conceptual framework for the types of social support people with disabilities receive online.
Braithwaite, D. O., Waldron, V. R., & Finn, J. (1999). Communication of Social Support in Computer-Mediated Groups for People With Disabilities. [Article]. Health Communication, 11(2), 123.
Nevertheless, you may find the people in New Zeeland use other types of support you did not expect to see... Good luck!
Daphna Yeshua-Katz Department of Telecommunications Indiana University www.indiana.edu/~telecom/people/grads/dyeshuak.shtml
________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of John McNutt [mcnuttjg@netzero.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:46 PM To: 'Philippa Smith'; 'Air list' Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
Try looking at the literature in assistive technology. There is some very good theoretical material and a lot of practical literature. It is a robust field and almost all of it deals with the problems of the physically and mentally challenged (not all of it, however, deals with ICTs). Good luck with your search.
John McNutt Professor University of Delaware
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Philippa Smith Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:10 PM To: Air list (air-l@listserv.aoir.org) Subject: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
Dear AOIR members,
I am currently searching the academic literature to help me in my preparation of a research proposal about internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities here in New Zealand. This will consider not only difficulties in being 'connected' but also what the needs are of people in using computers/the Internet whether they have impairments relating to vision or hearing, or who suffer from physical conditions as a result of diseases such as Parkinson's Disease or arthritis. Really anything in the health area that is relevant to this topic and it should extend to include anything about the benefits of the Internet for people with disabilities such as empowerment.
I am aware that the Pew Report does cover this to some extent, and have also found Dobransky and Harigattai's 2006 paper titled 'The disability divide in Internet access and use' in Information Communication and Society to be useful. But if anyone can offer or direct me to further material I would be very grateful.
Kind regards
Philippa
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