The role of social media in integrating the disabled in society

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Educational Media, Faculty of Specific Education - Tanta University

Abstract

           The importance of communication sites is evident in the lives of the disabled, as it plays a major role in integrating and enabling their integration, informing them of local and international news easily and keeping up with the latest developments. In addition to breaking out of isolation and introversion, where societal and cultural integration and breaking the feeling of boredom, routine and monotony by investing leisure time in a positive way .
Thus, I created a society without disabilities, without discrimination, without borders, a society of equal opportunities among its members, as everyone has the opportunity to formulate policies, express opinions, learn and qualify, work and rely on themselves.
It is not hidden from anyone of this amazing spread that social media has achieved in a short period of time and its superior ability to reach the largest number of individuals, including the handicapped. The handicapped represent one of the categories of Egyptian society, and in view of the progress in their scientific and cultural level and their increasing importance as a component in society, and as they constitute a class of groups that use these sites and the lack of media studies with them. The problem of the study is to know the motives and justifications for the use of social media by the handicapped, the satisfaction achieved from this use and the relationship of that to their integration into society.

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