[Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with disabilities
Jonathan Albright
jonathan.albright at gmail.com
Wed Sep 4 14:00:51 PDT 2013
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 at aucklanduni.ac.nz
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> From: Philippa Smith <philippa.smith at aut.ac.nz>
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> 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)"
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> Subject: [Air-L] Reminder: Call For Papers: iCS/CITASA Special Issue
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> ?
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> 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. ?
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> We invite you to submit a paper that was presented at the ASA 2013
> meetings for consideration in this special ?issue. Please submit
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> Sincerely,
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> Jennifer Earl
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 22:46:20 -0400
> From: "John McNutt" <mcnuttjg at netzero.com>
> To: "'Philippa Smith'" <philippa.smith at aut.ac.nz>, "'Air list'"
> <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people
> with
> disabilities
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> 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 at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Philippa Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:10 PM
> To: Air list (air-l at 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 _______________________________________________
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> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:56:05 +0700
> From: "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>
> To: "'Philippa Smith'" <philippa.smith at aut.ac.nz>, "'Air list'"
> <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Cc: lareen.newman at flinders.edu.au,
> ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people
> with
> disabilities
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> 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 at gmail.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Philippa Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 9:10 AM
> To: Air list (air-l at 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 _______________________________________________
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 03:10:00 +0000
> From: Gerard Goggin <gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au>
> To: 'Air list' <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] critical work on Internet access and accessibility
> for people with disabilities?
> Message-ID: <CE4CE000.156F22%gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au>
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>
> 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
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> On 4/09/13 12:46 PM, "John McNutt" <mcnuttjg at 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 at listserv.aoir.org
> >[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Philippa Smith
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:10 PM
> >To: Air list (air-l at 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 _______________________________________________
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 15:14:00 +1200
> From: Robyn Longhurst <robynl at waikato.ac.nz>
> To: Philippa Smith <philippa.smith at aut.ac.nz>
> Cc: "Air list \(air-l at listserv.aoir.org\)" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with
> disabilities
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> 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 at 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
> > _______________________________________________
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> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:48:33 +1000
> From: Andrew Clark <andrewrclark at mac.com>
> To: Gerard Goggin <gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au>
> Cc: Air list <air-l at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at listserv.aoir.org
> >> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Philippa Smith
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:10 PM
> >> To: Air list (air-l at 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 _______________________________________________
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> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 02:57:27 -0400
> From: Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca>
> To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] FW: Internet access and accessibility for people with
> disabilities
> Message-ID: <COL126-W221323BEED52B5F4C10108DC320 at phx.gbl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Some thoughts from me a disabled person.
>
> From: ptimusk at sympatico.ca
> To: philippa.smith at 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 at aut.ac.nz
> > To: air-l at 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 at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
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> >
> > Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> > http://www.aoir.org/
>
>
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>
> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:07:13 +0200
> From: "Isidro F. Aguillo" <isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es>
> To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu, web4lib at webjunction.org,
> "Scientometrics, Informetrics and Cybermetrics"
> <ISSI at LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES>, air-l at listserv.aoir.org,
> acumen-list at googlegroups.com, University and College Webmasters
> <uwebd at listserver.itd.umich.edu>
> Subject: [Air-L] Web impact excluding link farms and other black SEO
> practices
> Message-ID: <5226DC21.7070808 at 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
>
>
> --
> ******************************
>
> Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr.
> The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC
> Grupo Scimago
> Madrid. SPAIN
>
> isidro.aguillo at csic.es
> ORCID: 0000-0001-8927-4873
> ResearcherID: A-7280-2008
> Scholar Citations: SaCSbeoAAAAJ
> Twitter: @isidroaguillo
> Rankings Web: webometrics.info
>
> ******************************
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 05:56:20 -0400
> From: Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com>
> To: Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca>
> Cc: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] FW: Internet access and accessibility for people
> with disabilities
> Message-ID:
> <
> CAM9VJk3S73WYXqbFbmM-Uw0se_Y6GwyUPJMryoXgYA0oix8Nkw at 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-persons-disabilities-moving-forward
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > Some thoughts from me a disabled person.
> >
> > From: ptimusk at sympatico.ca
> > To: philippa.smith at 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 at aut.ac.nz
> > > To: air-l at 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 at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
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> > >
> > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> > > http://www.aoir.org/
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>
> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 20:30:52 +1000
> From: Michael Baron <webbaron at gmail.com>
> To: air-l <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] Online Teaching Opportunities and Practices
> Message-ID:
> <
> CAEZjSsZ4ivEqYHC+L5uhz73hJDYSw6bhvGJeaGB+w2ehz-7XDw at 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
>
> --
> Dr. Michael Baron
> CEO, Baron Consulting
> Website: www.baronconsulting.info
> "My Body is my Temple"
> "Be The Change You Want to See In The World." Gandhi
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:09:57 +0100
> From: Filippo Trevisan <Filippo.Trevisan at glasgow.ac.uk>
> To: Philippa Smith <philippa.smith at aut.ac.nz>, "Air list
> (air-l at listserv.aoir.org)" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people with
> disabilities
> Message-ID: <CE4CEF4A.F1E%filippo.trevisan at 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
>
> -------
> Filippo Trevisan, PhD
> Post-doctoral Researcher
> Adam Smith Research Foundation
> University of Glasgow
> 66, Oakfield Avenue
> Glasgow ? G12 8LS
> United Kingdom
>
> Tel: +44 (0)141 330 9701
> Mob: +44 (0)7828 567 252
> email: filippo.trevisan at glasgow.ac.uk
> Web: www.filippotrevisan.net
>
>
>
> On 04/09/2013 03:09, "Philippa Smith" <philippa.smith at 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 at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
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> >
> >Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> >http://www.aoir.org/
>
>
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>
> Message: 14
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 16:17:32 +0000
> From: "Yeshua-Katz, Daphna" <dyeshuak at indiana.edu>
> To: "'Philippa Smith'" <philippa.smith at aut.ac.nz>, "'Air list'"
> <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Internet access and accessibility for people
> with
> disabilities
> Message-ID:
> <
> 90DCA6618DEE404C981340E1E2D678DC0A8318F8 at 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 at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org]
> on behalf of John McNutt [mcnuttjg at 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 at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Philippa Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 10:10 PM
> To: Air list (air-l at 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 at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of
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