Trevisan, Filippo.,

Disability rights advocacy online : voice, empowerment and global connectivity / Filippo Trevisan. - 1 online resource (xvii, 249 pages) - Routledge studies in global information, politics and society ; 13 . - Routledge studies in global information, politics and society ; 13. .

1. Disabled people, citizenship and new media -- 2. Online mobilisation in times of crisis -- 3. Keep calm and Tweet on : British disability advocacy goes digital -- 4. Policy issues and storytelling on Facebook -- 5. Communication flows, leadership and the emergence of 'peer-mediated' citizenship -- 6. One size fits all? British innovators and American 'conservatives' -- 7. New directions in disability rights advocacy.

9781315726489 9781317537045

10.4324/9781315726489 doi


People with disabilities--Civil rights--Great Britain.
People with disabilities--Civil rights--United States.
Social advocacy--Great Britain.
Social advocacy--United States.
Internet and activism--Great Britain.
Internet and activism--United States.

HV1559.G6 / T74 2017

323.3 / T814