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The vlogging phenomena: a deaf perspective

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Ellen S. Hibbard,

Deb I. FelsAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 59 - 66

https://doi.org/10.1145/2049536.2049549

Published: 24 October 2011 Publication History

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Highly textual websites present barriers to Deaf people, primarily using American Sign Language for communication. Deaf people have been posting ASL content in form of vlogs to YouTube and specialized websites such as Deafvideo.TV. This paper presents some of the first insights into the use of vlogging technology and techniques among the Deaf community. The findings suggest that there are differences between YouTube and Deafvideo.TV due to differences between mainstream and specialized sites. Vlogging technology seems to influence use of styles that are not found or are used differently in face-to-face communications. Examples include the alteration of vloggers' signing space to convey different meanings on screen.

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Index Terms

The vlogging phenomena: a deaf perspective
1. Information systems
  1. Information storage systems
    1. Storage management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        File systems management
        Memory management

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ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

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ISBN:9781450309202

DOI:10.1145/2049536

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