Annamária Fábián-Trost, Igor Trost (Bayreuth/ Passau): “Inclusion” and “accessibility” in Computer-Mediated-Communication for an inclusive transformation in digital societies – An approach from Human-Centered Data Science

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Annamária Fábián-Trost, Igor Trost (Bayreuth/ Passau): » “Inclusion” and “accessibility” in Computer-Mediated-Communication for an inclusive transformation in digital societies – An approach from Human-Centered Data Science«

Abstract:

Diversity and inclusion are crucial elements in building equitable and thriving digital societies. While digitalization provides a number of opportunities to diversity and diverse individuals via digital visibility, it is also connected with discrimination, digital divide, and exclusion. Research on computer-mediated-communication enables the monitoring of accessibility, inclusion as well as the digital divide by examining digital corpora of diverse groups and their comments on inclusion and accessibility. This contribution portrays therefore disability-related diversity and inclusion in computer-mediated communication for social benefits in digital societies. One of the main focus is the interpretation of concordances for gaining a deeper understanding of inclusion essential to diverse societies. For the study, we use a multi-faceted integrative research design (data-driven and databased) implementing methods from computer-mediated communication research and human-centered data science, which will be used for empirical observations on digital societies concerning inclusion, accessibility, and discrimination.

Keywords: #Inclusion, #Accessibility, #DigitalSociety, #Corpuslinguistics, #LinguisticsofInclusion, #ComputerMediatedCommunication, #HumanCenteredDataScience