Disability In The Media

Author : Jacob Johanssen,Diana Garrisi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429890185

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Disability, Media, and Representations by Jacob Johanssen,Diana Garrisi Pdf

Bringing together scholars from around the world to research the intersection between media and disability, this edited collection aims to offer an interdisciplinary exploration and critique of print, broadcast and online representations of physical and mental impairments. Drawing on a wide range of case studies addressing how people can be ‘othered’ in contemporary media, the chapters focus on analyses of hateful discourses about disability on Reddit, news coverage of disability and education, media access of individuals with disabilities, the logic of memes and brain tumour on Twitter, celebrity and Down Syndrome on Instagram, disability in TV drama, the metaphor of disability for the nation; as well as an autoethnography of treatment of breast cancer. Providing a much-needed global perspective, Disability, Media, and Representations examines the relationship between self-representation and representations in either reinforcing or debunking myths around disability, and ways in which academic discourse can be differently articulated to study the relationship between media and disability. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of disability studies and media studies as well as activists and readers engaged in debates on diversity, inclusivity and the media.

Author : Charles A. Riley, II,II Charles a Riley
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611683936

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Disability and the Media by Charles A. Riley, II,II Charles a Riley Pdf

A journalist's passionate expose of the media's portrayal of the disabled.

Author : Elizabeth Ellcessor,Bill Kirkpatrick
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479867349

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Disability Media Studies by Elizabeth Ellcessor,Bill Kirkpatrick Pdf

Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of study, based in the rich traditions of media, cultural, and disability studies. Necessarily interdisciplinary and diverse, this collection weaves together work from scholars from a variety of disciplinary homes, into a broader conversation about exploring media artifacts in relation to disability. The book provides a comprehensive overview for anyone interested in the study of disability and media today. Case studies include familiar contemporary examples—such as Iron Man 3, Lady Gaga, and Oscar Pistorius—as well as historical media, independent disability media, reality television, and media technologies. The contributors consider disability representation, the role of media in forming cultural assumptions about ability, the construction of disability via media technologies, and how disabled audiences respond to particular media artifacts. The volume concludes with afterwords from two different perspectives on the field—one by disability scholar Rachel Adams, the other by media scholars Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne—that reflect upon the collection, the ongoing conversations, and the future of disability media studies. Disability Media Studies is a crucial text for those interested in this flourishing field, and will pave the way for a greater understanding of disability media studies and its critical concepts and conversations.

Author : Michael S. Jeffress
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000435061

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Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media by Michael S. Jeffress Pdf

Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions. It contains 13 newly written chapters drawing on representations of disability in popular culture from film, television, and print media in both the Global North and the Global South, including the United States, Canada, India, and Kenya. Although disability is often framed using a limited range of stereotypical tropes such as victims, supercrips, or suffering patients, this book shows how disability and neurodiversity are making their way into more mainstream media productions and publications with movies, television shows, and books featuring prominent and even lead characters with disabilities or neurodiversity. Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, and sociology more broadly.

Author : Tracy R. Worrell
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498561556

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Disability in the Media by Tracy R. Worrell Pdf

Disability in the Media: Examining Stigma and Identity looks at how disabilities are portrayed within the media and how individuals with disabilities are affected by their representation. The effects of media representation can be seen both at the level of the individual, with effects on self-identity for those with a disability, and at the level of society as a whole, with these portrayals playing a role in the social construction of disability, often further stigmatizing individuals with disabilities. On all levels, research has ended with a call to media producers, asking those in the entertainment industry to think about how they are portraying disability, to hire actors with disabilities, and to realize that the “supercrip” may not always be the most positive portrayal of disability. This book looks at the current status of disability representation in television and the popular press, offering case studies that examine their effect on individuals with disabilities and making suggestions for improving media representation and battling the perpetuation of social stigmas.

Author : Katie Ellis,Mike Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136832659

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Disability and New Media by Katie Ellis,Mike Kent Pdf

Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for individual users to control how the content is displayed has been diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely technical decisions but they are highly political and betray a disturbing trend of ableist assumption that serve to exclude people with disability. It has been argued that the Internet will not be fully accessible until disability is considered a cultural identity in the same way that class, gender and sexuality are. Kent and Ellis build on this notion using more recent Web 2.0 phenomena, social networking sites, virtual worlds and file sharing. Many of the studies on disability and the web have focused on the early web, prior to the development of social networking applications such as Facebook, YouTube and Second Life. This book discusses an array of such applications that have grown within and alongside Web 2.0, and analyzes how they both prevent and embrace the inclusion of people with disability.

Author : Carolyn Jackson-Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000095548

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Disability, the Media and the Paralympic Games by Carolyn Jackson-Brown Pdf

This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK’s publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 network, coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities. It sheds important new light on our understanding of media production and its complex interactions with sport and wider society. Drawing on political economy and cultural studies, the book explores why and how a marginalised group was brought into the mainstream by the media, and the key influencing factors and decision-making processes. Featuring interviews with key people involved in the television and digital production structures, as well as organisational archives, it helps us to understand the interplay between creativity and commerce, between editorial and marketing workflows, and about the making of meaning. The book also looks at coverage of the Rio Paralympics, and ahead to the Tokyo Games, and at changing global perceptions of disability through sport. This is fascinating reading for any advanced students, researchers, or sport management or media professionals looking to better understand the media production process or the significance of sport and disability in wider society.

Author : Katie Ellis,Mike Kent
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317150282

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Disability and Social Media by Katie Ellis,Mike Kent Pdf

Social media is popularly seen as an important media for people with disability in terms of communication, exchange and activism. These sites potentially increase both employment and leisure opportunities for one of the most traditionally isolated groups in society. However, the offline inaccessible environment has, to a certain degree, been replicated online and particularly in social networking sites. Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while social media and disability are often both observed through a focus on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different global perspectives are often overlooked. This collection explores the opportunities and challenges social media represents for the social inclusion of people with disabilities from a variety of different global perspectives that include Africa, Arabia and Asia along with European, American and Australasian perspectives and experiences.

Author : Colin Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Handicapped
ISBN : 1853310425

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Disabling Imagery and the Media by Colin Barnes Pdf

Author : Ann Pointon,Chris Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015041757959

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Framed by Ann Pointon,Chris Davies Pdf

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Author : Elizabeth Ellcessor
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479867431

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Restricted Access by Elizabeth Ellcessor Pdf

How reconsidering digital media and participatory cultures from the standpoint of disability allows for a full understanding of accessibility. While digital media can offer many opportunities for civic and cultural participation, this technology is not equally easy for everyone to use. Hardware, software, and cultural expectations combine to make some technologies an easier fit for some bodies than for others. A YouTube video without closed captions or a social network site that is incompatible with a screen reader can restrict the access of users who are hard of hearing or visually impaired. Often, people with disabilities require accommodation, assistive technologies, or other forms of aid to make digital media accessible—useable—for them. Restricted Access investigates digital media accessibility—the processes by which media is made usable by people with particular needs—and argues for the necessity of conceptualizing access in a way that will enable greater participation in all forms of mediated culture. Drawing on disability and cultural studies, Elizabeth Ellcessor uses an interrogatory framework based around issues of regulation, use, content, form, and experience to examine contemporary digital media. Through interviews with policy makers and accessibility professionals, popular culture and archival materials, and an ethnographic study of internet use by people with disabilities, Ellcessor reveals the assumptions that undergird contemporary technologies and participatory cultures. Restricted Access makes the crucial point that if digital media open up opportunities for individuals to create and participate, but that technology only facilitates the participation of those who are already privileged, then its progressive potential remains unrealized. Engagingly written with powerful examples, Ellcessor demonstrates the importance of alternate uses, marginalized voices, and invisible innovations in the context of disability identities to push us to rethink digital media accessibility.

Author : Judith Heumann,Kristen Joiner
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807019504

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Being Heumann by Judith Heumann,Kristen Joiner Pdf

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction "...an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.

Author : Mike Kent,Katie Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : People with disabilities in mass media
ISBN : 1138848085

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Disability and the Media by Mike Kent,Katie Ellis Pdf

Author : Alice Wong
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984899422

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Disability Visibility by Alice Wong Pdf

“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” —Chicago Tribune One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.

Author : Beth A. Haller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Disabilities
ISBN : 0972118934

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Representing Disability in an Ableist World by Beth A. Haller Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.