An authoritative and indispensable guide to disability and media, this thoughtfully curated collection features varied and provocative contributions from distinguished scholars globally, alongside next-generation research leaders.
Disability and media has emerged as a dynamic and exciting area of contemporary culture and social life. Media especially digital technologyplay a vital role in disability transformations, with widespread implications for global societies and how we understand communications. This book addresses this development, from representation and audience through technologies, innovations and challenges of the field. Through the varied and global perspectives of leading researchers, writers, and practitioners, including many authors with lived experience of disability, it covers a wide range of traditional, emergent and future media forms and formats.
International in scope and orientation, The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media offers students and scholars alike a comprehensive survey of the intersections between disability studies and media studies
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An authoritative and indispensable guide to disability and media, this thoughtfully curated collection features varied and provocative contributions from distinguished scholars alongside next-generation research leaders.
Introduction: Disability and Mediaan Emergent Field PART I Imagining
and Representing Disability 1 Disability Imaginaries in the News 2 Whats It
All Worth? The Political Economy of Disability Representation in Indian Media
3 Decolonizing the Dynamics of Media Power and Media Representation Between
1830 and 1930: Australian Indigenous Peoples with Disability 4 Featuring
Disabled Women in Advertisements: The Commodification of Diversity? 5 Still
Playing It Safe: A Comparative Analysis of Disability Narratives in The
Sessions, Breathing Lessons and "On Seeing A Sex Surrogate" 6 Mental
Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films: Greenberg and Silver
Linings Playbook 7 Still Julianne: Projecting Dementia on the Silvering
Screen 8 Authentic Disability Representation on US Television Past and
Present 9 The Spectacularization of Disability Sport: Brazilian and
Australian Newspaper photographs of 2012 London Paralympic Athletes 10 George
R. R. Martin and the Two Dwarfs 11 Embodying Metaphors: Disability Tropes in
Political Cartoons 12 Resisting Erasure: Reading (Dis)ability and Race in
Speculative Media PART II Audience, Participation, and Making Media 13
Producerly Disability Popular Culture: The Collision of Critical and
Receptive Attitudes 14 The Bodies of Film Club: Disability, Identity and
Empowerment 15 Disability Narratives in the News Media: A Spotlight on Africa
16 Disabled Media Creators in Afghanistan, China and Somalia 17 Youth with
Disabilities in Africa: Bridging the Disability Divide 18 Engaging
Accessibility Issues Through Mobile Videos in Montréal 19 Pages of Life:
Using a Telenovela to Promote the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in
Brazil 20 How Do You Write That in Sign Language?: A Graphic Signed Novel as
Source of Epistemological Reflection on Writing PART III Media Technologies
of Disability 21 GimpGirl: Insider Perspectives on Technology and the Lives
of Disabled Women 22 Digital Media Accessibility: An Evolving Infrastructure
of Possibility 23 Making the Web More Interactive and Accessible for Blind
People 24 Social Media and Disability: Its Complicated 25 When Face-to-Face
Is Screen-to-Screen: Reconsidering Mobile Media as Communication
Augmentations and Alternatives 26 Mobile Phones and Visual Impairment in
South Africa: Experiences from a Small Town 27 Video on Demand: Is this
Australias New Disability Divide? 28 Individuals with Physical Impairments
as Life Hackers?: Analyzing Online Content to Interrogate Dis/Ability and
Design 29 Interdependence in Collaboration with Robots PART IV Innovations,
Challenges and Future Terrains of Transformation 30 Dropping the Disability
Beat: Why Specialized Reporting Doesnt Solve Disability (Mis)representation
31 Advertising Disability and the Diversity Directive 32 Disability Advocacy
in BBCs Ouch and ABCs 33 Representing Difference: Disability, Digital
Storytelling and Public Pedagogy 34 Needs Must: Digital Innovations in
Disability Rights Advocacy 35 Disability Media Work 36 Books and People with
Print Disabilities: Public Value and the International Disability Human
Rights Agenda
Katie Ellis is Associate Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University (Australia). She has worked with people with disabilities in government, academia and the community. She has authored and edited 15 books and numerous articles on the topic, including two award-winning papers on digital access and social inclusion.
Gerard Goggin is Wee Kim Wee Chair in Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Since 2011, he has been Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. With Christopher Newell, he authored the highly influential Digital Disability (2003) and Disability in Australia (2005; winner of the Australian Human Rights Commission Arts Nonfiction Award). Other key books include Normality and Disability: Intersections Among Norms, Laws and Culture (2018; with Linda Steele and Jess Cadwallader), and Listening to Disability: Voices of Democracy (2020; with Cate Thill and Rosemary Kayess).
Beth Haller is the author of Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media (2010) and the editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (2015). She has been researching news and entertainment media images of disability since 1991. She is currently Professor of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland (USA), where she also teaches in the Universitys Applied Adult Disability Studies minor. She is an adjunct disability studies professor at City University of New York and York University (Canada).
Rosemary Curtis is a researcher with over 40 years experience specialising in the screen industries. Following ten years in the library at the Australian Film, TV and Radio School, Rosemary managed the research unit at the Australian Film Commission and Screen Australia from 1990 to 2009. In 2000 Rosemary was awarded the Australian Communications Research Forum award for Outstanding Contribution to Research in an area of Communications.