How can social media change to benefit Deaf/HoH Culture?

[JJireh]

Hi everyone, I am a hearing student studying Sign Language and American Deaf Culture. I am working on a project where I have been asked "How can social media be changed to benefit Deaf Culture?". I would love some insight and ideas on what works and/or doesn't work for Deaf/HoH on social media sites. Any thoughts on your own/friends/family experiences are welcome. Thank You!!

 

[Bottesini]

Hi everyone, I am a hearing student studying Sign Language and American Deaf Culture. I am working on a project where I have been asked "How can social media be changed to benefit Deaf Culture?". I would love some insight and ideas on what works and/or doesn't work for Deaf/HoH on social media sites. Any thoughts on your own/friends/family experiences are welcome. Thank You!!

It's working fine now. There are even Facebook groups that do a lot of communication by ASL in video format.

 

[Frisky Feline]

Deaf social/media networking is pretty solid. I am not sure why you think that way..

 

[JJireh]

I wasn't sure myself. The question was already created for me on ways to make social media more "deaf-friendly". I chose that topic from a list. Most recently I have been thinking over things like videos on either Facebook or YouTube. Is the idea of having more videos caption accessible even feasible and might that help make a broader form of information/entertainment available to more people. I realize I am an outsider, which is why I am trying to look for things I'm probably missing from inside sources. I see social media a not having a huge deficit when it comes to communication between anyone able to read, but like I said I could be missing what others see as obvious.

 

[A Nihilist]

Yes captioning on videos would be a great assistance. I know that Youtube offers automatic captioning but it's not accurate at all.

 

[deafdyke]

Yes captioning on videos would be a great assistance. I know that Youtube offers automatic captioning but it's not accurate at all.

Good point.... This question almost reminded me of some dude who was really into sailing, and posted a question about how to make sailing more accessible to dhh people.

 

[dereksbicycles]

I wish that ASL students would quite interacting with deaf students just for the sake of getting classroom credit.

 

[deafdyke]

I wish that ASL students would quite interacting with deaf students just for the sake of getting classroom credit.

bUt DoN't U nO? wE'rE lIkE sO fUn aNd KeWlz and all we exist for is research papers.

 

[ncff07]

bUt DoN't U nO? wE'rE lIkE sO fUn aNd KeWlz and all we exist for is research papers.

And surveys!