The Voice Australia (2012): Disability, social media and collective intelligence

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The Voice Australia (2012): Disability, social media and collective intelligence

This paper examines themes that emerge in discussion of Season 1 The Voice Australia's vision-impaired contestant Rachael Leahcar on The Voice Australia's official YouTube channel. The essay uses Pierre Lévy's conception of information utopia characterized by collective intelligence a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ellis, Katie
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2014
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35521

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