The Rhetoric of Disability on Instagram
A Post-Qualitative Photographic Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.62161/revvisual.v16.5318Keywords:
Disability, Social Networks, Digital Influencers, Photographs, Instagram, Inclusion, Digital cultureAbstract
Social networks, such as Instagram, have flourished samples of realistic images of disability produced by the group itself, offering a discourse that is different from the traditional one, more radical and diverse. This work, through a post-qualitative photographic analysis of 100 photographs from 54 Instagram profiles, seeks to define a new rhetoric of disability to update the rhetoric of disability proposed by Garland-Thomson (2001), but in the 3.0 web. The new classifications speak of emancipation, sexuality, happiness, super-capacity, rebellion and pride, in order to normalize the group and allow its inclusion and equality.
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