The increasing deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to inform decision-making across diverse areas including healthcare, employment, social benefits, and government policy, presents a serious risk for disabled people, who have been shown face bias in AI implementations. While there has significant work on analysing mitigating algorithmic bias, the broader mechanisms how emerges applications are not well understood, hampering efforts address where it begins. In this article, we...

Scholarship in the sociology of medicine has tended to characterize diagnosis as disruptive one’s self-concept. This categorization, though, requires reconsideration light public conversations about mental health and community building around neurocognitive conditions, particularly among youth online. Drawing upon Tan’s notion “biographical illumination” (BI), which describes how medical frameworks can enrich personal biographies, we explored shifting nature BI through case TikTok. Combining...

The rise of mobile communication applications and technologies presents promising therapeutic accessibility-related interventions for neurodivergent users. However, top-down approaches in human-computer interaction (HCI) research often prioritize the needs goals allistic neurotypical researchers secondary stakeholders media creation. Furthermore, are created with a one-size-fits-all approach, intent rehabilitating or curing ways being. This article imagines neuroqueer technoscience as an...

The authors review theoretical trends in HMC research, as well recent critical interventions the journal that usefully reshape and expand our research terrain. Conventional such positivist quantified approaches are identified restraining questions delimiting understandings of concepts including subjects, agency interactivity. Feminist cybernetic, race, postcolonial crip offered, examining how they fill gaps HMC, expanding content areas explored, addressing diverse intersectional pressures,...

Following George Floyd's murder in 2020, academia pursued a policy of diversity, noticeable the job advertisements for following academic year. This article analyzes 77 tenure-track positions 2020–2021 year advertised on National Communication Association's COMMNotes. With focus market and labor, authors explain assumptions applying positions. The analysis shows how diversity transforms from concept into practice. However, within context U.S.-based communication studies' economic conditions,...

Margarita with a Straw is an Indian movie about queer/disabled woman exploring her sexuality. The article uses textual analysis discursive formation approach to analyze how the protagonist's identity constituted vis-à-vis intimate partnerships alongside promotion of neoliberal values. One relationship able-bodied white man takes place within caregiving dynamic that challenges independence. other disabled South Asian creates interdependence bifurcates their identities as disabled-and-queer....

This commentary proposes influencer snark as an area for feminist media scholarship. Influencer is a subversive and satirical social practice that addresses concerns of credibility, authenticity, representation in the industry, multi-million dollar economy overwhelmingly fueled by young women. As latest iteration gossip blogs anti-fandom, pages, emerging late 2010s early 2020s, host thousands users who surveil discuss influencers daily, offering important implications about gendered...

User biography sections on digital social platforms (hereafter described as “user bios” or “bios”) are spaces for account holders to take narrative ownership in communicating their identities other users and interlocutors. Online platforms, such media, increasingly used community hubs disabled groups, especially autistic people (Author; Author; Sins Invalid, 2019). We focus #Autisktok, one of many enclaves building cultural production TikTok. Through a critical/cultural qualitative thematic...

The increasing deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to inform decision making across diverse areas including healthcare, employment, social benefits, and government policy, presents a serious risk for disabled people, who have been shown face bias in AI implementations. While there has significant work on analysing mitigating algorithmic bias, the broader mechanisms how emerges applications are not well understood, hampering efforts address where it begins. In this article, we...

Review of Distributed Blackness: African-American Cybercultures, by André Brock Jr. (NYU Press, 2020).