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THE RANGE OF COMMUNICATION TOPICS OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN THE INTERNET COMMUNITIES
Corresponding Author(s) : Gennadi B. Pronchev
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews,
Vol. 8 No. 4 (2020): July
Abstract
Purpose of the study: This study discusses questions associated with the analysis of the most relevant communication topics of sight-disabled people in the Internet communities. According to the World Health Organization, there are about 1.3 billion people worldwide who live with a form of vision disorder. For solving a broad range of social problems of the sight-disabled, interest-based virtual social communities are created in the global internet network. By analyzing the content of these communities, one can judge about the most relevant topics of interest for sight-disabled people.
Methodology: In this work, search and study of the Internet communities of sight-disabled people have been conducted in the VK (Russia)] social network. Using the Popsters service of analytics of social network posts and pages, the authors have analyzed the content of the said communities and identified the most relevant topics for this category of citizens. In the research, the hypothesis was used about a stable and significant statistical relation existing between the activity of users in the Internet communities associated with a particular topic and the level of significance of the selected topic for them.
Main Findings: The development of information and communication technologies promotes socialization and integration of sight-disabled people into the civic society. The Internet communities of sight-disabled people focused on various topics are registered in the VK social network. The state has to more extensively support and develop technologies contributing to socialization and integration of sight-disabled people into the civic society.
Applications of this study: The research findings can be of interest for specialists dealing with problems of socialization and social adaptation of people having vision limitations.
Novelty/Originality of this study: It has been found that the Internet communities with the user-supplemented content have the highest quantity of users registered. The topics range of posts in these Internet communities is quite diverse. Posts asserting the traditional life principles: compassion, assistance, overcoming difficulties – win the highest users' response.
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Goncharova, I. V., Pronchev, G. B., Pronchev, K. G., & Krichever, E. I. (2018). Information and communication technologies as a tool for expanding the socio-cultural sphere for people with disabilities. Bulletin of the Krasnodar State Institute of Culture, 1(14). Retrieved from http://vestnikkguki.esrae.ru/16-302.
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Legal information center for the disabled (1998). Kemerovo regional special library for the blind and visually impaired. Retrieved from http://www.kemosb.ru/club.php?event=linkname511.
Lotoreva, E. V. (2011). Integration of visually impaired people into information society. Society: Sociology, Psychology, Pedagogics, 1-2, 94-98.
Petrov, A. P. & Pronchev, G. B. (2017). Collection of empirical data for the model of dynamics of interest in a political event. In Mathematical Modeling of Social Processes, 19, 75-79. Moscow: Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics RAS. Retrieved from http://keldysh.ru/social/2016.
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World Health Organization (2019). Blindness and vision impairment. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/blindness-and-visual-impairment.
Yakovleva A. V. (2012). Studying of personal features of visually impaired teenagers depending on their sex and gender. Systems Psychology and Sociology, 6, 129-133.
Yandex (2014). New Yandex.Browser 14.12 has become more accessible and secure. Yandex: browser club. Retrieved from https://browser.yandex.ru/blog/5105
Zamiralova, T. A., Molchanov, K. V., Karpunina, A. V., Kvitkovskaya, A. A., Akhtyan, A. G., & Bereza, N. A. (2019). On the question of inclusive education in higher school: problems and prospects. Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 8(2), 261-266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ajis-2019-0037