Filippo Trevisan is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC, where is also Deputy Director of the Institute on Disability and Public Policy. His research interests include new media technologies, political participation, grassroots advocacy, disability and inequality.

• Chapter 1 – Disabled People, Citizenship and New MediaChapter 2 – Online Mobilisation in Times of CrisisChapter 3 – Keep Calm and Tweet On: British Disability Advocacy Goes DigitalChapter 4 – Policy Issues and Storytelling on FacebookChapter 5 – Communication Flows, Leadership and The Emergence of "Peer-Mediated" CitizenshipChapter 6 – One Size Fits All? British Innovators and American "Conservatives"Chapter 7 – New Directions in Disability Rights Advocacy

"Disability concerns us all – and this nuanced, rigorous, timely account charts for the first time the politics of disability advocacy and new media. Essential reading."—Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, Australia"Trevisan has produced a persuasive, empirically-rich study that makes an important contribution to how we understand the contemporary disability rights movement, not just in the UK, but around the world. This study illuminates the role of social media in formulating and advancing a rights-based policy agenda, and how the Internet can be used to combat the stigma sometimes still surrounding persons with disabilities. The result is a fascinating read for disability experts, but also more broadly for scholars of progressive political movements."—Derrick L. Cogburn, School of International Service, American University, USA"Filippo Trevisan’s Disability Rights Advocacy Online: Voice, Empowerment and Global connectivity (2017) is an especially timely study … It addresses gaps in disability Internet studies that tend to focus on barriers to access rather than the Internet use of the majority of disabled people who regularly go online. Case studies show how different e-advocacy strategies support different levels of inclusion. And the book’s detailed analyses offer a wealth of future directions for scholars and advocates. Given the urgency of crises faced by people with disabilities and others around the world, Trevisan’s nuanced account is essential reading for anyone interested in online mobilization for progressive social change."—Jessica M. F. Hughes, Information, Communication & Society"Disability Rights Advocacy Online is a book by Filippo Trevisan that has been badly missing from disability studies. […]Trevisan’s excellent book will inspire researchers to build on the best traditions of disability studies and do more work in this multidisciplinary, fertile area for inquiries."—Gabor Petri, Disability & Society

Filippo Trevisan is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC, where is also Deputy Director of the Institute on Disability and Public Policy. His research interests include new media technologies, political participation, grassroots advocacy, disability and inequality.

• Chapter 1 – Disabled People, Citizenship and New MediaChapter 2 – Online Mobilisation in Times of CrisisChapter 3 – Keep Calm and Tweet On: British Disability Advocacy Goes DigitalChapter 4 – Policy Issues and Storytelling on FacebookChapter 5 – Communication Flows, Leadership and The Emergence of "Peer-Mediated" CitizenshipChapter 6 – One Size Fits All? British Innovators and American "Conservatives"Chapter 7 – New Directions in Disability Rights Advocacy

"Disability concerns us all – and this nuanced, rigorous, timely account charts for the first time the politics of disability advocacy and new media. Essential reading."—Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, Australia"Trevisan has produced a persuasive, empirically-rich study that makes an important contribution to how we understand the contemporary disability rights movement, not just in the UK, but around the world. This study illuminates the role of social media in formulating and advancing a rights-based policy agenda, and how the Internet can be used to combat the stigma sometimes still surrounding persons with disabilities. The result is a fascinating read for disability experts, but also more broadly for scholars of progressive political movements."—Derrick L. Cogburn, School of International Service, American University, USA"Filippo Trevisan’s Disability Rights Advocacy Online: Voice, Empowerment and Global connectivity (2017) is an especially timely study … It addresses gaps in disability Internet studies that tend to focus on barriers to access rather than the Internet use of the majority of disabled people who regularly go online. Case studies show how different e-advocacy strategies support different levels of inclusion. And the book’s detailed analyses offer a wealth of future directions for scholars and advocates. Given the urgency of crises faced by people with disabilities and others around the world, Trevisan’s nuanced account is essential reading for anyone interested in online mobilization for progressive social change."—Jessica M. F. Hughes, Information, Communication & Society"Disability Rights Advocacy Online is a book by Filippo Trevisan that has been badly missing from disability studies. […]Trevisan’s excellent book will inspire researchers to build on the best traditions of disability studies and do more work in this multidisciplinary, fertile area for inquiries."—Gabor Petri, Disability & Society

Filippo Trevisan is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC, where is also Deputy Director of the Institute on Disability and Public Policy. His research interests include new media technologies, political participation, grassroots advocacy, disability and inequality.

• Chapter 1 – Disabled People, Citizenship and New MediaChapter 2 – Online Mobilisation in Times of CrisisChapter 3 – Keep Calm and Tweet On: British Disability Advocacy Goes DigitalChapter 4 – Policy Issues and Storytelling on FacebookChapter 5 – Communication Flows, Leadership and The Emergence of "Peer-Mediated" CitizenshipChapter 6 – One Size Fits All? British Innovators and American "Conservatives"Chapter 7 – New Directions in Disability Rights Advocacy

"Disability concerns us all – and this nuanced, rigorous, timely account charts for the first time the politics of disability advocacy and new media. Essential reading."—Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, Australia"Trevisan has produced a persuasive, empirically-rich study that makes an important contribution to how we understand the contemporary disability rights movement, not just in the UK, but around the world. This study illuminates the role of social media in formulating and advancing a rights-based policy agenda, and how the Internet can be used to combat the stigma sometimes still surrounding persons with disabilities. The result is a fascinating read for disability experts, but also more broadly for scholars of progressive political movements."—Derrick L. Cogburn, School of International Service, American University, USA"Filippo Trevisan’s Disability Rights Advocacy Online: Voice, Empowerment and Global connectivity (2017) is an especially timely study … It addresses gaps in disability Internet studies that tend to focus on barriers to access rather than the Internet use of the majority of disabled people who regularly go online. Case studies show how different e-advocacy strategies support different levels of inclusion. And the book’s detailed analyses offer a wealth of future directions for scholars and advocates. Given the urgency of crises faced by people with disabilities and others around the world, Trevisan’s nuanced account is essential reading for anyone interested in online mobilization for progressive social change."—Jessica M. F. Hughes, Information, Communication & Society"Disability Rights Advocacy Online is a book by Filippo Trevisan that has been badly missing from disability studies. […]Trevisan’s excellent book will inspire researchers to build on the best traditions of disability studies and do more work in this multidisciplinary, fertile area for inquiries."—Gabor Petri, Disability & Society