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  2. Disability in the media - Wikipedia

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    The depiction of disability in the media plays a major role in molding the public perception of disability. [1] Perceptions portrayed in the media directly influence the way people with disabilities are treated in current society. "[Media platforms] have been cited as a key site for the reinforcement of negative images and ideas in regard to ...

  3. Social model of disability - Wikipedia

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    It seeks to redefine disability to refer to the restrictions caused by society when it does not give equitable social and structural support according to disabled peoples' structural needs. [4] As a simple example, if a person is unable to climb stairs, the medical model focuses on making the individual physically able to climb stairs.

  4. Normalization (people with disabilities) - Wikipedia

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    Sociopolitical definitions of disability, the independent living movement, improved media and social messages, observation and consideration of situational and environmental barriers, passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 have all come together to help a person with disability define their acceptance of what living with a ...

  5. Disability activist Aubrie Lee shares her biggest tips for ...

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    Lee, 29, graduated from Stanford before beginning her career at Google.

  6. Disability - Wikipedia

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    Disability activism itself has led to the revision of appropriate language, when discussing disability and disabled people. For example, the medical classification of 'retarded' has since been disregarded, due to its negative implications. Moreover, disability activism has also led to pejorative language being reclaimed by disabled people.

  7. Disability studies - Wikipedia

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    Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability.Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability", where impairment was an impairment of an individual's mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct. [1]

  8. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

  9. Disability Visibility Project - Wikipedia

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    The Disability Visibility Project (DVP) is an online community dedicated to creating, recording, sharing and amplifying disability culture, stories and media. [ 1 ] The DVP is a community partnership with StoryCorps , an American oral history organization dedicated to preserving and sharing stories through interviews. [ 2 ]