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The Day After. Access to the Final 2016 US Presidential Debate After its Live Broadcast

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

The final presidential debate in the US was one of the most widely followed programs of 2016. The main broadcasters aired it live on television and streamed it through social media with closed captioning so that all Americans could access this highly awaited political event. After the debate night, most networks uploaded the full program or fragments of it to their websites in order to make it available to viewers who had missed the original transmission. This paper focuses on the closed captioning provided in the videos of the final debate available on the websites and YouTube channels of the most prominent networks that televised the event. Drawing on literature from Media Accessibility, Communication and Internet Studies, an analysis of the availability and functionality of the online captions in those clips was performed, which proved that the accessibility services offered after the debate night to audiences with hearing loss could be substantially improved.

First Page

33

Last Page

57

Publication Title

SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation

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