- Title
- A Critical exploration of YouTube texts by and about people with disabilities in South Africa
- Creator
- Dalvit, Lorenzo
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468129
- Identifier
- vital:77021
- Identifier
- https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18303
- Description
- The work of intellectuals such as Marx and Gramsci has been exten-sively employed in the study of social inequalities across contexts and in relation to different dimensions. As one of the most unequal societies in the world, South Africa provides a number of past and recent exam-ples of discrimination, oppression and violence on the basis of race, gender, socio-economic and migrant status, political affiliation etc. De-spite their continued marginalisation during and after apartheid and de-spite accounting for a substantial portion (7.5%) of the population, peo-ple with disabilities appear relatively neglected in scholarly and media debates. The booming Internet and mobile penetration, which promised to give a voice to the voiceless, increasingly seems to reproduce and at times exacerbate such marginalisation. By drawing on Gramsci’s no-tions of hegemony and public intellectuals, in this paper, I explore dis-cursive constructions by and about South Africans with disabilities on YouTube. Videos and comments are purposively selected from three active channels based on their relevance and are quantitatively as well as qualitatively analysed. The first objective of the study is to under-stand disability in relation to other dimensions of diversity, eg race or gender.
- Format
- 14 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Mediascapes Journal, Dalvit, L., 2023. A Critical exploration of YouTube texts by and about people with disabilities in South Africa. Mediascapes journal, 21(1), pp.344-358, Mediascapes Journal volume 21 number 1 344 358 2023
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Mediascape Journal Statement (https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes)
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Dalvit, Lorenzo (Prof)
RU School of Journalism and Media Studies
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
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