Temptations of fluency and dilemmas of self definition: Stutterers' usage and avoidance of new media technologies

Rosenberg, Hananel; Kohn, Ayelet

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.04.008

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“…Participants who have the ability or luxury to volunteer for research may be more educated or richer than people who do not. In some additional instances ( n = 41, 11.7%), purposive sampling was appropriately directed at a specific population that is difficult to reach in a representative manner, such as diabetes patients (Dobson et al, 2018), people who stutter (Rosenberg & Kohn, 2016), and Chinese students in Germany (Pang, 2018). Although the majority of articles were based on convenience samples, a number of articles ( n = 82, 23.5%) included at least one strategy for enhancing representativeness, such as nationally representative sampling (e.g., Twenge et al, 2018) or stratified multistage random cluster sampling (e.g., Ang et al, 2015).…”

Section: Evaluation and Implicationsmentioning

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Computer-Mediated Communication and Well-Being in the Age of Social Media: A Systematic Review

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Ruppel

McEwan

et al. 2022

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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The association between computer-mediated communication (CMC) and well-being is a complex, consequential, and hotly debated topic that has received significant attention from pundits, researchers, and the media. Conflicting research findings and fear over negative outcomes have spurred both moral panic and further research into these associations. To create a more comprehensive picture of trends, explanations, and future directions in this domain of research, we conducted a systematic meso-level review of 366 studies across 349 articles published since 2007 that report associations between CMC and well-being. Although most of this research is not explicitly theoretical, several potential theoretical mechanisms for positive and negative effects of CMC on well-being are utilized. The heterogeneity of effects in the studies we reviewed could be explained by the discipline in which the research is conducted, the methodology used, the types of CMC and well-being examined, and the population studied. Our evaluation of this body of research highlights the importance of attending to how we conceptualize communication and well-being, the questions we ask, and the populations and contexts we study when both reading and producing research on CMC and well-being.

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Section: Evaluation and Implicationsmentioning

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Computer-Mediated Communication and Well-Being in the Age of Social Media: A Systematic Review

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Ruppel

McEwan

et al. 2022

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…This normalization of stutterers’ speech illustrates the medicalization of communicative disabilities. However, while online communities offer stutterers a shared identity (Rosenberg and Kohn, 2016), mostly they enable them to hide their stuttering and to avoid stigmatization (Fuse and Lanham, 2016).…”

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“Authentic” digital inclusion? Dis/ability performances on social media by users with concealable communicative disabilities

Bitman

2022

New Media & Society

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Despite the increased technical accessibility of social media, disabled users’ attempts to be socially included are still understudied. These users’ agency-based choices are impacted by constant able-bodied surveillance and disciplining, especially when it comes to dis/ability visibility and potential context collapse. This paper develops the concept of disability performance within social media studies, presenting a qualitative study of social media users with concealable communicative disabilities: autistics, hard-of-hearing and people who stutter. Four factors were found to shape users’ dis/ability performances: the use of social media interfaces for the compartmentalization of disabled identity; users’ continuous efforts to make their social environment inclusionary; the centrality of users’ disabled identity and intersectionality; and the design of the performance’s message. Together, these show disability performances to be deliberate expressions of agency on the part of vulnerable social media users, who perform dis/ability according to their own evaluation of authenticity to increase their social inclusion.

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“…Another issue that calls for attention concerns accommodation of the community’s media policy to members with special needs. Research shows how the speech impaired (Rosenberg and Kohn, 2016), hearing impaired (Bitman and John, 2019; Pilling and Barrett, 2008), and people suffering from social anxiety (Pierce, 2009) use text messaging to bypass their communicative difficulties. To such groups, texting is a crucial tool for effectively coping with their disabilities.…”

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It’s the text, stupid! Mobile phones, religious communities, and the silent threat of text messages

Rosenberg

Blondheim²,

Katz

2019

New Media & Society

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This study explores the Jewish ultra-Orthodox “kosher cellphone,” a device that can be used only for voice calls. It asks why the leadership of this highly textual community didn’t stop at blocking Internet use over the kosher cellphone and went on to block texting messages as well. Using both interviews with ultra-Orthodox anti-cellphone-activists and content analysis of online discussions among community members, the study analyzes the perception of threat that underlies the prohibition of texting, and explores how this prohibition is received in the community. The findings show that in contrast to the threat posed by improper content, which affects the external boundaries of this enclave community, blocking texting stems from a perception that the technology’s configuration threatens intra-communal monitoring and the control of the dissemination of information within the communal space. Our findings add a number of dimensions to the current understanding of the nexus of new media, social control, and isolated religious communities.

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Temptations of fluency and dilemmas of self definition: Stutterers' usage and avoidance of new media technologies

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Computer-Mediated Communication and Well-Being in the Age of Social Media: A Systematic Review

Computer-Mediated Communication and Well-Being in the Age of Social Media: A Systematic Review

“Authentic” digital inclusion? Dis/ability performances on social media by users with concealable communicative disabilities

It’s the text, stupid! Mobile phones, religious communities, and the silent threat of text messages

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