“Tell Me You Have ADHD Without Telling Me You Have ADHD”: Neurodivergent Identity Performance on TikTok

AD Leveille - Social Media+ Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
User-generated content about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the
most popular health topics on TikTok. Because most creators are lay people, yet they attract …

Social media sha** autism perception and identity

I Skafle, E Gabarron, A Nordahl-Hansen - Autism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this study was to explore how autistic adults experienced using social media to
find information about autism, and how they experienced online autistic communities. There …

Co-occurring autism, ADHD, and gender dysphoria in children, adolescents, and young adults with eating disorders: an examination of pre-vs. post-COVID pandemic …

TR Brown, MO Jansen, AN Zhou, D Moog, H **e… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Incidence rates of autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and
gender dysphoria (GD) are rising not only in the general population, but particularly among …

" I Am Human, Just Like You": What Intersectional, Neurodivergent Lived Experiences Bring to Accessibility Research

L Le - Proceedings of the 26th International ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The increasing prevalence of neurodivergence has led society to give greater recognition to
the importance of neurodiversity. Yet societal perceptions of neurodivergence continue to be …

Hands labouring for safety: Mediated intimacy in influencer communities on Instagram

M Heřmanová - Anthropology of consciousness, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The article explores how digital images of hands are used as a symbolic representation of
intimacy and intimate emotions in influencer communication on Instagram. Based on digital …

TikTok-inspired self-diagnosis and its implications for educational psychology practice

A Foster, N Ellis - Educational Psychology in Practice, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines, from a psychological perspective, why some young people may
diagnose themselves with a mental health condition or neurodevelopmental difference after …

Disability Expertise and Large Language Models: A Qualitative Study of Autistic TikTok Creators' Use of ChatGPT

K McNally, K Wright, L Goldkind… - Social Media+ …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this study was to describe how autistic TikTok creators are using ChatGPT
across various domains of their lives, their motivations for doing so, and resulting impacts …

“Caption It in an Accessible Way That Is Also Enjoyable”: Characterizing User-Driven Captioning Practices on TikTok

EJ McDonnell, T Eagle, P Sinlapanuntakul… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As user-generated video dominates media landscapes, it poses an accessibility challenge.
While disability advocacy groups globally have secured hard-won accessibility regulations …

'Tumblr didn't really give me sex ed, it more gave me like, Queer ed': how 2SLGBTQ+ people with developmental disabilities use social media for information

AS Martino, T Tri, DJ Kinitz, E Brennand, A Hughes… - Sex …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and diverse gender and
sexual identifying (2SLGBTQ+) individuals with developmental disabilities often face unique …

(Re) Designing the Public Sphere? Doing Political Theory After the Empirical Turn

A Longo - Philosophy & Technology, 2024 - Springer
This article critically addresses current debates on the digital transformation of the public
sphere. It responds to two contrasting responses to this transformation: the school of …