Temptations of fluency and dilemmas of self definition: Stutterers' usage and avoidance of new media technologies

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Highlights：

• New media helps to improve stammers' quality of life.

• At the same time it might lead them to reduce their social life to an alternative “verbal ghetto”.

• Online forums enable individuals with social inhibitions to develop and discover their “true selves”.

• It grants stammers the very ability to be heard for the first time “speaking” in a clear (virtual) voice in a public space.

• The forum serves as a platform to discuss the characteristics of the stammers' as a unique community.

摘要

•New media helps to improve stammers' quality of life.•At the same time it might lead them to reduce their social life to an alternative “verbal ghetto”.•Online forums enable individuals with social inhibitions to develop and discover their “true selves”.•It grants stammers the very ability to be heard for the first time “speaking” in a clear (virtual) voice in a public space.•The forum serves as a platform to discuss the characteristics of the stammers' as a unique community.

论文关键词：Forums,New media,Social media avoidance,Technology use,Mobile phones,Verbal fluency disorders

论文评审过程：Received 9 September 2015, Revised 22 March 2016, Accepted 1 April 2016, Available online 22 April 2016, Version of Record 22 April 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.04.008