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dc.contributor.authorMantilla, Stephanie Luz
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-21T04:46:29Z
dc.date.available2022-12-21T04:46:29Z
dc.date.issued2022en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2123/29830
dc.descriptionIncludes publication
dc.description.abstractPeople with disability are routinely excluded from public health campaigns (Kavanagh, 2020) despite that they account for approximately one in six Australians (ABS, 2019). People with invisible disability are an often-overlooked sub-group despite that they account for an estimated 90% of people with disability (Attitude Foundation, 2018) and that many invisible disabilities overlap with ill health. This thesis illuminates how a critical focus on invisible disability can improve the representation of people with invisible disability and forge new pathways for their inclusion in health campaigns on visual social media. It offers a conceptualisation and an operational definition of invisible disability that it uses as a critical lens. The thesis grapples with how to represent invisible disabilities on Instagram before drawing on two Australian government Instagram health campaigns as case studies: the NSW Healthy Eating Active Living (2020) campaign and national Girls Make Your Move (2016) campaign. It draws on elements of Briggs and Hallin’s (2016) biocommunicability theory and the concept of economies of visibility to examine both campaigns and to demonstrate how people with invisible disability are often excluded from Instagram health advice. It highlights how some of these exclusions may be underscored by broader tensions between certain invisible disabilities and biomedical knowledge and/or biomedical professionals. In response, it offers theoretical and practical suggestions about how to improve the representation and inclusion of people with invisible disability in visual social media health communications. Ultimately, the thesis demonstrates that a critical focus on invisible disability can challenge normative conceptions of health and encourage creative representation and inclusion strategies on visual social media beyond straightforwardly visually representing invisible disabilities.en_AU
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dc.subjectInvisible disabilityen_AU
dc.subjecthealth communicationsen_AU
dc.subjectinclusionen_AU
dc.subjectvisual social mediaen_AU
dc.subjectInstagramen_AU
dc.titleInvisible disability, public health, and visual social media communicationen_AU
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.thesisDoctor of Philosophyen_AU
dc.rights.otherThe author retains copyright of this thesis. It may only be used for the purposes of research and study. It must not be used for any other purposes and may not be transmitted or shared with others without prior permission.en_AU
usyd.facultySeS faculties schools::Faculty of Medicine and Health::School of Health Sciencesen_AU
usyd.departmentParticipation Sciencesen_AU
usyd.degreeDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_AU
usyd.awardinginstThe University of Sydneyen_AU
usyd.advisorSmith-Merry, Jennifer
usyd.include.pubYesen_AU


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