Para-Sports
The highest level of sports for para-athletes.
What is the Paralympic Games?
The term “Cripvertising combines “crip” and what other word?
What is “advertising”?
Sharing your life online to create an image or "brand" is called this.
What is self-branding?
Showing disability as part of personal branding on social media.
What is Cripvertising?
What system is commodification most connected to?
What is capitalism?
This para-sport involves a ball and a net.
What is wheelchair basketball?
The self-promotion of athletes is often called this.
What is self-branding?
What is self-representation?
The action or process of treating something as a mere commodity.
What is commodification?
Turning public goods into private ownership is called what?
What is privatization?
Racing chairs and prosthetic legs are described as?
What are assistive technologies?
Cripvertising connects disability with this social media trend.
What is influencer culture?
People who promote themselves online are called this.
What are influencers?
What is disability pride or queer representation?
When workers are treated like machines or numbers, what is this called?
What is dehumanization?
Prosthetics can act as both a necessity and a symbol of this kind of social mobility.
What is upward (economic) social mobility?
Paralympians use this platform to control their image and promote brands.
What is instagram?
Sharing messages of strength and confidence shows this idea.
What is empowerment?
The authors say visibility can help people see disability as what?
What is normal or positive?
What word describes when people are valued by what they own?
What is materialism?
The combination of prosthetics and fashion in Paralympians’ posts.
What is a “prosthetic aesthetic”?
Cripvertising can both challenge stereotypes and support this system.
The influencer-like fame achieved through personal branding and visibility on Social Media.
What is a Microcelebrity?
What do the authors want to see more of on social media?
What is authentic and inclusive representation?
Which theorist is known for the idea of "McDonaldization"?
Who is George Ritzer?