{"id":5654,"date":"2025-04-27T21:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2025-04-27T21:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:07:02","slug":"debunking-narratives-how-social-media-challenges-reductive-media-representations-of-disability-and-enables-their-true-colours-to-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5654\/debunking-narratives-how-social-media-challenges-reductive-media-representations-of-disability-and-enables-their-true-colours-to-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking narratives \u2013 how social media challenges reductive media representations of disability and enables their true colours to shine"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract:\n\n\n\nBeing able to define your true self is an important human right and media plays a powerful role in shaping that identity. Mainstream media channels continue to present those with a disability within outdated and narrow definitions. The community has long been silenced and kept in the shadows of society with their image often being reduced to that of a heroic figure who goes \u2018above and beyond\u2019 despite their disability or as a \u2018victim\u2019 in need of help. With the removal of geographical <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5654\/debunking-narratives-how-social-media-challenges-reductive-media-representations-of-disability-and-enables-their-true-colours-to-shine\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Being able to define your true self is an important human right and media plays a powerful role in shaping that identity. Mainstream media channels continue to present those with a disability within outdated and narrow definitions. The community has long been silenced and kept in the shadows of society with their image often being reduced to that of a heroic figure who goes \u2018above and beyond\u2019 despite their disability or as a \u2018victim\u2019 in need of help. With the removal of geographical &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ioa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5663,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}