'Work-bound' people and digital travel
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One of the research foci of our project[1] is the usage of social media among disabled, house-bound people. As the profile of Dr Karamath in Tales from Facebook (Miller 2011), and the story of Amanda Baggs in Digital Anthropology (Ginsburg 2013) suggest, social media, or Internet in a broader context, allow disabled people a ‘bigger’ life. For example, allowing people to express themselves better, to communicate with friends more conveniently, and even gain a ‘second life’. Even though I have...
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