Autistic culture online: virtual communication and cultural expression on the spectrum
Autistic culture online: virtual communication and cultural expression on the spectrum
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DOI：
10.1080/14649360802382586
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Davidson, Joyce
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作者：
Davidson, Joyce
根据自闭症谱系（AS）的第一手资料，本文认为存在独特的自闭症沟通方式。这表明，这些差异可以用维特根斯坦的术语概念化为“语言游戏”，而且，这些差异与他们的实践（尤其是在线）中出现的自闭症文化有关。互联网被证明是一种适当的、包容的媒介，对于那些在社会空间距离上进行交流的人来说。互联网对AS社会排斥/包容有潜在的影响，并且在AS作品中表达了很高的希望；一位作者声称“有一天，互联网对自闭症患者的影响可能会与手语在聋哑人中的传播相提并论”（辛格1999:67）。本文调查了这样的说法，以及自闭症患者描述的使用互联网与相似的他人联系的程度，不仅仅是为了社会支持，而是为了组织和倡导对自闭症文化差异的认识。
Drawing on first-hand accounts of the Autism Spectrum (AS), this paper argues that that there are distinctive autistic styles of communication. It suggests that these differences can usefully be conceptualized in Wittgensteinian terms as 'language games', and further, that these are associated with an autistic culture emerging alongside their practice, particularly online. The Internet is shown to be an appropriate, accommodating medium for those on the spectrum, given characteristic preferences for communication at a socio-spatial distance. The Internet has potential implications for AS social exclusion/inclusion, and hopes expressed in AS writings are high; one author claims that '[t]he impact of the Internet on autistics may one day be compared to the spread of sign language among the deaf' (Singer 1999: 67). This paper investigates such claims, and the extent to which those with autism describe using the Internet to connect with similar Others, not just for social support, but to organize and advocate for recognition of autistic cultural difference.