M Kent
Biographic Data
| ID | 15627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Kent |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kent |
| SIGNATURE | KENT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3549-3808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 188 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Culturally-Situated Trauma-Informed Practice within an Aboriginal Out of Home Care Program
In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are 11 times more likely to be placed in Out of Home Care (OOHC) than non-Indigenous children. Connection to culture is acknowledged as essential to Aboriginal children’s wellbeing, which involves relational connection and facilitation by Aboriginal caseworkers, carers and Elders. Culturally-situated trauma-informed practice has been identified as an approach to effectively support Abor…
Community Accessibility: Tweeters Take Responsibility for an Accessible Web 2.0
Massive Multi-player Online Games and the Developing Political Economy of Cyberspace
This article explores economics, production and wealth in massive multi-player online games. It examines how the unique text of each of these virtual worlds is the product of collaboration between the designers of the worlds and the players who participate in them. It then turns its focus to how this collaborative construction creates tension when the ownership of virtual property is contested, as these seemingly contained virtual economies inter…
Unveiling the qualities of a ‘good doctor’: Family carers’ and healthcare professionals’ perspective on dementia healthcare in India
Findings highlight a need for training programs for healthcare professionals to foster the values inherent to delivery of person-centered care
Care Navigation and Coordination Program on Reducing Hospital Use for Adults with Complex Health and Psychosocial Needs in South West Sydney, Australia
PCBH is associated with a notable reduction in unplanned hospitalisations and total bed days. However, reduction in ED presentations is similar between the intervention and comparison cohorts. Future initiatives should focus on a shared vision of integrated care, robust leadership, and participative co-creation with service-level stakeholders. Sustained program establishment, a multidisciplinary care coordinator team, and an early creation of rob…
Relational Solidarity and Conflicting Ethics in Dementia Care in Urban India
There can be relational solidarity in dementia care at home in urban India but also contradictions in the interpretations and applications of the ethical principles of autonomy, equality, dignity, and personhood. As such, a more organic, grassroots model of ethical practice is needed to frame care and provide material support to families in India
The experience of structural burden for culturally and linguistically diverse family carers of people living with dementia in Australia
Evidence suggests that family carers of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people living with dementia experience higher stress and unmet need than the general Australian population. These disparities are often framed as the result of CALD communities failing to seek formal support. Challenging this, we draw on the concept of 'structural burden' to explore how the complexity of health and aged systems contribute to the burden that CALD …
Smartphones, Disability and the Australian Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic for People who are Blind and with Low Vision
This paper offers insight into and analysis of the disparate and diverse experiences of Australians with disability, at the intersections of technology and geography during the COVID-19 pandemic.Drawing on interviews with the blind and low vision community we identify a significant cross-generational uptake of smartphones. Participants demonstrate a reflexive and creative use of these devices when faced with reduced accessibility, and the signifi…
Boundary Crossers: How Providers Facilitate Ethnic Minority Families’ Access to Dementia Services
In negotiating cultural, social, and professional boundaries, providers undertake multidimensional and complex work that involves education, advocacy, negotiation, navigation, creativity, and emotional engagement. This work is largely undervalued but offers a model of care that facilitates social and community development as well as service integration across health, aged care, and social services
Developing accessible technologies for a changing world: Understanding how people with vision impairment use smartphones
Over a six week period, 845 people with low vision or blindness responded to our survey regarding how they used their smartphone, contributing to the first ever large-scale research project on the importance of smartphones in the Australian blind community. The results were significant − 79% of people with vision impairment use smartphones. They are part of their everyday lives and used for a broad range of purposes. Furthermore, the broad adopti…
Students with Disabilities and eLearning in Australia: Experiences of Accessibility and Disclosure at Curtin University
Chinese Social Media Today
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book concerns Chinese social media and the public and looks at Chinese social media and disability. It argues that social media is merely a continued extension of the development of the internet and how it is used. The book explores how "Chinese grassroots non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have taken a non-profit public approach t…
The Case for Captioned Lectures in Australian Higher Education
Access for everyone? Australia’s ‘streaming wars’ and consumers with disabilities
This article is concerned with the recent rise in popularity of video-on-demand services as a form of entertainment in Australia and its premise of offering freedom to watch whatever, whenever. The article investigates how the entry of video-on-demand services into the Australian television market has both enabled and disabled televisual content access, focusing on how people with disability access video-on-demand content and the hardware and sof…
Who is working on it? Captioning Australian catch-up television and subscription video on demand
Despite the rapid evolution in the way in which we watch television - through digitalisation and the introduction of video on demand (VOD) and catch-up services - the inaccessibility of television content remains an issue, specifically for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. This article revisits the claim from 2014 that VOD providers were 'working on' providing closed captions. Building on Ellis' 2014 research, the accessibility of televisio…
Video on Demand for People with Disability: Traversing Terrestrial Borders
IntroductionWithin Australia, the approach taken to the ways in which disabled people access television is heavily influenced by legislation and activism from abroad. This is increasingly the case as television moves to online modes of distribution where physical and legislative boundaries are more fluid. While early investigations of the intersections between television and the concept of abroad focused on the impacts of representation and natio…
Accessible television: The new frontier in disability media studies brings together industry innovation, government legislation and online activism
As television moves beyond digital broadcast modes of distribution towards online modes of delivery, this paper considers the opportunities and challenges for people with disabilities. With accessibility relying on a complex mix of regulation, legislation and industry innovation, the paper questions whether predictions of improved accessibility are an automatic outcome of new television technologies. The paper asks ‘where to next?’ for disability…
Disability and the Internet in 2015: Where to now
Earlier this decade, the emerging field of disability media began to focus on the Internet and people with disabilities. Books such as Paul T. Jaeger’s Disability and the Internet in 2012 and Disability and new media by this issue’s editors in 2011 both extended earlier work in this field particularly Goggin and Newell’s 2003 Digital disability.This new focus incorporated changes to the environment with the hype around Web 2.0, the rise of online…
People with disability and new disaster communications: Access and the social media mash-up
This article explores how a lack of access to increasingly complex and overlapping digital communications platforms in times of disaster for people with disabilities has the potential to make already life-threatening situations considerably more dangerous. As we are increasingly coming to rely on a social media mash-up of digital platforms to assist in communications during disaster situations, the issue of accessibility for people with disabilit…
Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil
This article analyses interrelations between genetic ancestry research, political conflict and social identity. It focuses on the debate on race-based affirmative action policies, which have been implemented in Brazil since the turn of the century. Genetic evidence of high levels of admixture in the Brazilian population has become a key element of arguments that question the validity of the category of race for the development of public policies.…
Building the genomic nation: Homo Brasilis' and the 'Genoma Mexicano' in comparative cultural perspective
This article explores the relationship between genetic research, nationalism and the construction of collective social identities in Latin America. It makes a comparative analysis of two research projects - the 'Genoma Mexicano' and the 'Homo Brasilis' - both of which sought to establish national and genetic profiles. Both have reproduced and strengthened the idea of their respective nations of focus, incorporating biological elements into debate…
Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics
Recent work on genomics and race makes the argument that concepts and categories of race are subtly reproduced in the practice of genomic science, despite the explicit rejection of race as meaningful biological reality by many geneticists. Our argument in this paper is that racialized meanings in genomics, rather than standing alone, are very often wrapped up in ideas about nation. This seems to us a rather neglected aspect in the literature abou…
Negotiating Imagined Genetic Communities: Unity and Diversity in Brazilian Science and Society
In this article, we explore the ways in which genetic research reconfigures historically rooted debates on race and national identity by analyzing the intense debates that have taken place in the past decade in Brazil around the genetic profile of the nation's population. Such debates have not only featured a significant variety of interpretations by different geneticists but also involved the media, policy makers, and social movements. Here we f…
The importance of being Uros: Indigenous identity politics in the genomic age
The objective of this article is to explore the interrelations between human population genomic research, the political strategies of indigenous movements and processes of identity formation. It will do so by analysing the collaboration between the Uros, an indigenous group living on artificial floating islands on Lake Titicaca (Peru), and researchers of the Genographic Project. Claiming descent from the ancient Urus, the islands' inhabitants use…
Genes, boleadeiras e abismos colossais: Elementos Para Um Diálogo Entre Genética E Antropologia
pela oportunidade de travar o presente dialogo. Como um dos principais objetivos de nosso texto e abordar assuntos e desenvolver re fl exoes que possam ser relevantes tanto para a comunidade genetica quanto para a antropologica, estamos particularmente satisfeitos com o reconhecimento ma-nifestado por Bortolini quanto a essa relevância. Sua replica levanta diversas questoes que buscaremos abordar nos paragrafos a seguir, ainda que de forma conden…
Vegetation Description and Analysis: A Practical Approach
Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics
Recent work on genomics and race makes the argument that concepts and categories of race are subtly reproduced in the practice of genomic science, despite the explicit rejection of race as meaningful biological reality by many geneticists. Our argument in this paper is that racialized meanings in genomics, rather than standing alone, are very often wrapped up in ideas about nation. This seems to us a rather neglected aspect in the literature abou…
Building the genomic nation: Homo Brasilis' and the 'Genoma Mexicano' in comparative cultural perspective
This article explores the relationship between genetic research, nationalism and the construction of collective social identities in Latin America. It makes a comparative analysis of two research projects - the 'Genoma Mexicano' and the 'Homo Brasilis' - both of which sought to establish national and genetic profiles. Both have reproduced and strengthened the idea of their respective nations of focus, incorporating biological elements into debate…
The Making of Customary Territories: Social Change at the Intersection of State and Indigenous Territorial Politics on Lake Titicaca, Peru
Este artículo explora la relación entre la política indigena, el manejo de áreas protegídas y formas consuetudinarias de territorialidad en los Andes, mediante el análisis de un conflicto relacionado con la Reserva Nacional del Titicaca en Perú. Cuestiona la literatura académica que supone la pre-existencia de los territorios consuetudinarios, cuya defensa desencadenaría conflictos entre los moviementos indígenas y los actores externos. En contra…
Negotiating Imagined Genetic Communities: Unity and Diversity in Brazilian Science and Society
In this article, we explore the ways in which genetic research reconfigures historically rooted debates on race and national identity by analyzing the intense debates that have taken place in the past decade in Brazil around the genetic profile of the nation's population. Such debates have not only featured a significant variety of interpretations by different geneticists but also involved the media, policy makers, and social movements. Here we f…
The importance of being Uros: Indigenous identity politics in the genomic age
The objective of this article is to explore the interrelations between human population genomic research, the political strategies of indigenous movements and processes of identity formation. It will do so by analysing the collaboration between the Uros, an indigenous group living on artificial floating islands on Lake Titicaca (Peru), and researchers of the Genographic Project. Claiming descent from the ancient Urus, the islands' inhabitants use…
Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil
This article analyses interrelations between genetic ancestry research, political conflict and social identity. It focuses on the debate on race-based affirmative action policies, which have been implemented in Brazil since the turn of the century. Genetic evidence of high levels of admixture in the Brazilian population has become a key element of arguments that question the validity of the category of race for the development of public policies.…
The experience of structural burden for culturally and linguistically diverse family carers of people living with dementia in Australia
Evidence suggests that family carers of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people living with dementia experience higher stress and unmet need than the general Australian population. These disparities are often framed as the result of CALD communities failing to seek formal support. Challenging this, we draw on the concept of 'structural burden' to explore how the complexity of health and aged systems contribute to the burden that CALD …
Palaeoecological Evidence for the Prehistoric Settlement of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, southwest England. Part II: Land Use Changes from the Neolithic to the Present
Boundary Crossers: How Providers Facilitate Ethnic Minority Families’ Access to Dementia Services
In negotiating cultural, social, and professional boundaries, providers undertake multidimensional and complex work that involves education, advocacy, negotiation, navigation, creativity, and emotional engagement. This work is largely undervalued but offers a model of care that facilitates social and community development as well as service integration across health, aged care, and social services
Palaeohydrological records derived from testate amoebae analysis from peatlands in northern England: Within-site variability, between-site comparability and palaeoclimatic implications
Testate amoebae analysis was undertaken on eight cores from three mires within a restricted geographical area of northern England. This was used to assess, first, the amount of autogenically produced variability in palaeohydrological records from ombrotrophic mires, and, second, to determine whether a palaeoclimatic signal can be derived from testate amoebae analysis from peatlands. Past mean annual water tables were reconstructed by calibrating …
Palaeoecological Evidence for the Prehistoric Settlement of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, Southwest England. Part I: The Status of Woodland and Early Human Impacts
A importância de ser uro: Movimentos Indígenas, Políticas De Identidade E Pesquisa Genética Nos Andes Peruanos
O objetivo deste artigo é explorar as inter-relações entre a pesquisa genética, as lutas políticas de movimentos indígenas e os processos de formação de identidade étnica. Em particular, visa analisar as condições sociais que levaram à colaboração entre os uros, um grupo indígena que habita as ilhas flutuantes do lago Titicaca (Peru), e pesquisadores do projeto Genográfico. Os uros, cujas reivindicações de uma identidade étnica diferenciada eram …
"Os charruas vivem" nos Gaúchos: A vida social de uma pesquisa de "resgate" genético de uma etnia indígena extinta no Sul do Brasil
Este artigo explora a articulação entre uma pesquisa de ancestralidade genética e a construção social de identidades étnicas no Rio Grande do Sul. Isso é feito através da análise da vida social de um projeto de pesquisa conduzido por pesquisadores da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Tal investigação estabeleceu a continuidade genética entre a população Gaúcha contemporânea e os presumidamente extintos Charrua, uma etnia indígena…
Ecotourism, environmental preservation and conflicts over natural resources
Ecotourism has profound social impacts through the transformations it generates in the distribution of access to natural resources. At the heart of this transformation stands the paradox of ecotourism: it exploits natural environments while at the same time depending on their preservation. As a result, ecotourism has increasingly become articulated with environmental policies, in particular the creation of protected areas. Such policies have priv…
Video on Demand for People with Disability: Traversing Terrestrial Borders
IntroductionWithin Australia, the approach taken to the ways in which disabled people access television is heavily influenced by legislation and activism from abroad. This is increasingly the case as television moves to online modes of distribution where physical and legislative boundaries are more fluid. While early investigations of the intersections between television and the concept of abroad focused on the impacts of representation and natio…
People with disability and new disaster communications: Access and the social media mash-up
This article explores how a lack of access to increasingly complex and overlapping digital communications platforms in times of disaster for people with disabilities has the potential to make already life-threatening situations considerably more dangerous. As we are increasingly coming to rely on a social media mash-up of digital platforms to assist in communications during disaster situations, the issue of accessibility for people with disabilit…
Community Accessibility: Tweeters Take Responsibility for an Accessible Web 2.0
In his book on new forms of personal expression and communication on the Internet, The Future of Reputation, Daniel Solove reminds us that "people scattered across the globe can now all congregate together in cyberspace" (2007:33
Developing accessible technologies for a changing world: Understanding how people with vision impairment use smartphones
Over a six week period, 845 people with low vision or blindness responded to our survey regarding how they used their smartphone, contributing to the first ever large-scale research project on the importance of smartphones in the Australian blind community. The results were significant − 79% of people with vision impairment use smartphones. They are part of their everyday lives and used for a broad range of purposes. Furthermore, the broad adopti…
Students with Disabilities and eLearning in Australia: Experiences of Accessibility and Disclosure at Curtin University
The Case for Captioned Lectures in Australian Higher Education
Who is working on it? Captioning Australian catch-up television and subscription video on demand
Despite the rapid evolution in the way in which we watch television - through digitalisation and the introduction of video on demand (VOD) and catch-up services - the inaccessibility of television content remains an issue, specifically for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. This article revisits the claim from 2014 that VOD providers were 'working on' providing closed captions. Building on Ellis' 2014 research, the accessibility of televisio…
Práticas territoriais indígenas entre a flexibilidade e a fixação
Em sua busca pelo reconhecimento de seus territórios costumeiros, as populações indígenas das Américas têm progressivamente lançado mão de técnicas modernas para a definição precisa de territórios. Isto resultou em tensões entre suas práticas muitas vezes altamente flexíveis e as modalidades mais fixas de territorialidade produzidas por tais técnicas. O objetivo deste artigo é explorar essas tensões e suas consequências sociais por meio da anális…
Allochthonous and autochthonous mire deposits, slope instability and palaeoenvironmental investigations in the Borve Valley, Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
This paper suggests that sediment depth-age anomalies, and the lithological and palaeoecological properties of a peat core from Borve mire on the Outer Hebridean island of Barra, reflect the episodic impacts of rapid mass-movement of superficial peats and mineral soils from the adjacent hillslopes in the period 3000 to 1750 14 C years BP. Alternative explanations such as mismeasurement of radiocarbon or contamination by floods, are thought less l…
Pi Sigma Alpha Names Award Winners
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Vegetation Description and Analysis: A Practical Approach
Pi Sigma Alpha Names Award Winners
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Allochthonous and autochthonous mire deposits, slope instability and palaeoenvironmental investigations in the Borve Valley, Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
This paper suggests that sediment depth-age anomalies, and the lithological and palaeoecological properties of a peat core from Borve mire on the Outer Hebridean island of Barra, reflect the episodic impacts of rapid mass-movement of superficial peats and mineral soils from the adjacent hillslopes in the period 3000 to 1750 14 C years BP. Alternative explanations such as mismeasurement of radiocarbon or contamination by floods, are thought less l…
Palaeoecological Evidence for the Prehistoric Settlement of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, Southwest England. Part I: The Status of Woodland and Early Human Impacts
Palaeoecological Evidence for the Prehistoric Settlement of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, southwest England. Part II: Land Use Changes from the Neolithic to the Present
Palaeohydrological records derived from testate amoebae analysis from peatlands in northern England: Within-site variability, between-site comparability and palaeoclimatic implications
Testate amoebae analysis was undertaken on eight cores from three mires within a restricted geographical area of northern England. This was used to assess, first, the amount of autogenically produced variability in palaeohydrological records from ombrotrophic mires, and, second, to determine whether a palaeoclimatic signal can be derived from testate amoebae analysis from peatlands. Past mean annual water tables were reconstructed by calibrating …
Ecotourism, environmental preservation and conflicts over natural resources
Ecotourism has profound social impacts through the transformations it generates in the distribution of access to natural resources. At the heart of this transformation stands the paradox of ecotourism: it exploits natural environments while at the same time depending on their preservation. As a result, ecotourism has increasingly become articulated with environmental policies, in particular the creation of protected areas. Such policies have priv…
The Making of Customary Territories: Social Change at the Intersection of State and Indigenous Territorial Politics on Lake Titicaca, Peru
Este artículo explora la relación entre la política indigena, el manejo de áreas protegídas y formas consuetudinarias de territorialidad en los Andes, mediante el análisis de un conflicto relacionado con la Reserva Nacional del Titicaca en Perú. Cuestiona la literatura académica que supone la pre-existencia de los territorios consuetudinarios, cuya defensa desencadenaría conflictos entre los moviementos indígenas y los actores externos. En contra…
Community Accessibility: Tweeters Take Responsibility for an Accessible Web 2.0
In his book on new forms of personal expression and communication on the Internet, The Future of Reputation, Daniel Solove reminds us that "people scattered across the globe can now all congregate together in cyberspace" (2007:33
Disability and New Media
Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for individual users to control how the content is displayed has been diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely techni…
Práticas territoriais indígenas entre a flexibilidade e a fixação
Em sua busca pelo reconhecimento de seus territórios costumeiros, as populações indígenas das Américas têm progressivamente lançado mão de técnicas modernas para a definição precisa de territórios. Isto resultou em tensões entre suas práticas muitas vezes altamente flexíveis e as modalidades mais fixas de territorialidade produzidas por tais técnicas. O objetivo deste artigo é explorar essas tensões e suas consequências sociais por meio da anális…
A importância de ser uro: Movimentos Indígenas, Políticas De Identidade E Pesquisa Genética Nos Andes Peruanos
O objetivo deste artigo é explorar as inter-relações entre a pesquisa genética, as lutas políticas de movimentos indígenas e os processos de formação de identidade étnica. Em particular, visa analisar as condições sociais que levaram à colaboração entre os uros, um grupo indígena que habita as ilhas flutuantes do lago Titicaca (Peru), e pesquisadores do projeto Genográfico. Os uros, cujas reivindicações de uma identidade étnica diferenciada eram …
Genes, boleadeiras e abismos colossais: Elementos Para Um Diálogo Entre Genética E Antropologia
pela oportunidade de travar o presente dialogo. Como um dos principais objetivos de nosso texto e abordar assuntos e desenvolver re fl exoes que possam ser relevantes tanto para a comunidade genetica quanto para a antropologica, estamos particularmente satisfeitos com o reconhecimento ma-nifestado por Bortolini quanto a essa relevância. Sua replica levanta diversas questoes que buscaremos abordar nos paragrafos a seguir, ainda que de forma conden…
"Os charruas vivem" nos Gaúchos: A vida social de uma pesquisa de "resgate" genético de uma etnia indígena extinta no Sul do Brasil
Este artigo explora a articulação entre uma pesquisa de ancestralidade genética e a construção social de identidades étnicas no Rio Grande do Sul. Isso é feito através da análise da vida social de um projeto de pesquisa conduzido por pesquisadores da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Tal investigação estabeleceu a continuidade genética entre a população Gaúcha contemporânea e os presumidamente extintos Charrua, uma etnia indígena…
The importance of being Uros: Indigenous identity politics in the genomic age
The objective of this article is to explore the interrelations between human population genomic research, the political strategies of indigenous movements and processes of identity formation. It will do so by analysing the collaboration between the Uros, an indigenous group living on artificial floating islands on Lake Titicaca (Peru), and researchers of the Genographic Project. Claiming descent from the ancient Urus, the islands' inhabitants use…
Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics
Recent work on genomics and race makes the argument that concepts and categories of race are subtly reproduced in the practice of genomic science, despite the explicit rejection of race as meaningful biological reality by many geneticists. Our argument in this paper is that racialized meanings in genomics, rather than standing alone, are very often wrapped up in ideas about nation. This seems to us a rather neglected aspect in the literature abou…
Negotiating Imagined Genetic Communities: Unity and Diversity in Brazilian Science and Society
In this article, we explore the ways in which genetic research reconfigures historically rooted debates on race and national identity by analyzing the intense debates that have taken place in the past decade in Brazil around the genetic profile of the nation's population. Such debates have not only featured a significant variety of interpretations by different geneticists but also involved the media, policy makers, and social movements. Here we f…
Accessible television: The new frontier in disability media studies brings together industry innovation, government legislation and online activism
As television moves beyond digital broadcast modes of distribution towards online modes of delivery, this paper considers the opportunities and challenges for people with disabilities. With accessibility relying on a complex mix of regulation, legislation and industry innovation, the paper questions whether predictions of improved accessibility are an automatic outcome of new television technologies. The paper asks ‘where to next?’ for disability…
Disability and the Internet in 2015: Where to now
Earlier this decade, the emerging field of disability media began to focus on the Internet and people with disabilities. Books such as Paul T. Jaeger’s Disability and the Internet in 2012 and Disability and new media by this issue’s editors in 2011 both extended earlier work in this field particularly Goggin and Newell’s 2003 Digital disability.This new focus incorporated changes to the environment with the hype around Web 2.0, the rise of online…
People with disability and new disaster communications: Access and the social media mash-up
This article explores how a lack of access to increasingly complex and overlapping digital communications platforms in times of disaster for people with disabilities has the potential to make already life-threatening situations considerably more dangerous. As we are increasingly coming to rely on a social media mash-up of digital platforms to assist in communications during disaster situations, the issue of accessibility for people with disabilit…
Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil
This article analyses interrelations between genetic ancestry research, political conflict and social identity. It focuses on the debate on race-based affirmative action policies, which have been implemented in Brazil since the turn of the century. Genetic evidence of high levels of admixture in the Brazilian population has become a key element of arguments that question the validity of the category of race for the development of public policies.…
Building the genomic nation: Homo Brasilis' and the 'Genoma Mexicano' in comparative cultural perspective
This article explores the relationship between genetic research, nationalism and the construction of collective social identities in Latin America. It makes a comparative analysis of two research projects - the 'Genoma Mexicano' and the 'Homo Brasilis' - both of which sought to establish national and genetic profiles. Both have reproduced and strengthened the idea of their respective nations of focus, incorporating biological elements into debate…
Video on Demand for People with Disability: Traversing Terrestrial Borders
IntroductionWithin Australia, the approach taken to the ways in which disabled people access television is heavily influenced by legislation and activism from abroad. This is increasingly the case as television moves to online modes of distribution where physical and legislative boundaries are more fluid. While early investigations of the intersections between television and the concept of abroad focused on the impacts of representation and natio…
Chinese Social Media Today
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book concerns Chinese social media and the public and looks at Chinese social media and disability. It argues that social media is merely a continued extension of the development of the internet and how it is used. The book explores how "Chinese grassroots non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have taken a non-profit public approach t…
The Case for Captioned Lectures in Australian Higher Education
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