Accepting and Opposing Local Deaf Tradition

Zdrodowska, Magdalena

doi:10.4324/9780429323980-9

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“…Information and communication technologies that support video calling and sharing of visual content have a particularly strong effect on DHH socialities. In Poland, Facebook intensified the bonds between DHH people with similar ideologies, as it enabled them to easily organize offline gatherings, including for social activism (Zdrodowska, 2016). Similarly, Facebook has considerably influenced deaf college students in the US; through this platform, they could relate with multiple communities and learn more about their own families, social norms, current events and perspectives on various social issues (Cuculick, 2014).…”

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Technological socialities: The impact of information and communication technologies on belonging among deaf and hard‐of‐hearing people

Ahlin

Hiddinga

2023

Sociology Compass

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This review article examines how different types of communication technologies, from the specialized medical to generic social devices, influence belonging and sociality among deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people. The emphasis is on DHH adolescents and young adults who may be impacted differently across countries, given state-specific policies regarding the status of sign language and deaf education, and based on different availability, affordability, and accessibility of communication technologies. We introduce different perspectives on deafness, ranging from pathological to cultural, a heuristic on which we build to explore DHH socialities as complex and evolving. We then analytically review ethnographic research on how cochlear implants impact DHH people's belonging to the "deaf world" and/or the "hearing world," and how they navigate between these worlds. Then we move on to technologies such as text messages and social media, which enable DHH people to extend their socialities beyond local communities. Belonging is a fluid phenomenon, and technologies which are in a constant process of innovation and development may influence it in complex ways. We argue that to explore questions of belonging, identity, and sociality among DHH people, and

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“…& Debevc, 2020;Zdrodowska, 2016). As DHH people often develop their sign language skills significantly better…”

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