ABSTRACT
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 technology––play 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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Introduction: Disability and Media––an Emergent Field
KATIE ELLIS, GERARD GOOGIN, BETH HALLER AND ROSEMARY CURTIS
PART I
Imagining and Representing Disability
1 Disability Imaginaries in the News
TANYA TITCHKOSKY
2 What’s It All Worth? The Political Economy of Disability Representation in Indian Media
NOOKARAJU BENDUKURTHI AND USHA RAMAN
3 Decolonizing the Dynamics of Media Power and Media Representation Between 1830 and 1930: Australian Indigenous Peoples with Disability
JOHN GILROY, JO RAGEN AND HELEN MEEKOSHA
4 Featuring Disabled Women in Advertisements: The Commodification of Diversity?
ELLA HOUSTON
5 Still Playing It Safe: A Comparative Analysis of Disability Narratives in The Sessions, Breathing Lessons and "On Seeing A Sex Surrogate"
JONATHAN BARTHOLOMY
6 Mental Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films: Greenberg and Silver Linings Playbook
ALISON WILDE
7 Still Julianne: Projecting Dementia on the Silvering Screen
SALLY CHIVERS
8 Authentic Disability Representation on US Television Past and Present
BETH HALLER
9 The Spectacularization of Disability Sport: Brazilian and Australian Newspaper photographs of 2012 London Paralympic Athletes
TATIANE HILGEMBERG, KATIE ELLIS AND MADISON MAGLADRY
10 George R. R. Martin and the Two Dwarfs
MIA HARRISON
11 Embodying Metaphors: Disability Tropes in Political Cartoons
BETH HALLER
12 Resisting Erasure: Reading (Dis)ability and Race in Speculative Media
SAMI SCHALK
PART II
Audience, Participation, and Making Media
13 Producerly Disability Popular Culture: The Collision of Critical and Receptive Attitudes
KATIE ELLIS
14 The Bodies of Film Club: Disability, Identity and Empowerment
FIONA WHITTINGTON-WALSH, AND KYA BEZANSON, CHRISTIAN BURTON, JACI MACKENDRICK, KATIE MILLER, EMMA SAWATZKY and COLTON TURNER
15 Disability Narratives in the News Media: A Spotlight on Africa
OLUSOLA OGUNDOLA
16 Disabled Media Creators in Afghanistan, China and Somalia
PATRICIA CHADWICK
17 Youth with Disabilities in Africa: Bridging the Disability Divide
KIMBERLY O’HAVER
18 Engaging Accessibility Issues Through Mobile Videos in Montréal
LAURENCE PARENT
19 Pages of Life: Using a Telenovela to Promote the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Brazil
PATRICIA ALMEIDA
20 How Do You Write That in Sign Language?: A Graphic Signed Novel as Source of Epistemological Reflection on Writing
VÉRO LEDUC
PART III
Media Technologies of Disability
21 GimpGirl: Insider Perspectives on Technology and the Lives of Disabled Women
JENNIFER COLE AND JASON NOLAN
22 Digital Media Accessibility: An Evolving Infrastructure of Possibility
ELIZABETH ELLCESSOR
23 Making the Web More Interactive and Accessible for Blind People
JONATHAN LAZAR AND BRIAN WENTZ
24 Social Media and Disability: It’s Complicated
MICHAEL KENT
25 When Face-to-Face Is Screen-to-Screen: Reconsidering Mobile Media as Communication Augmentations and Alternatives
MERYL ALPER
26 Mobile Phones and Visual Impairment in South Africa: Experiences from a Small Town
LORENZO DALVIT
27 Video on Demand: Is this Australia’s New Disability Divide?
WAYNE HAWKINS
28 Individuals with Physical Impairments as Life Hackers?: Analyzing Online Content to Interrogate Dis/Ability and Design
JERRY ROBINSON
29 Interdependence in Collaboration with Robots
ELEANOR SANDRY
PART IV
Innovations, Challenges and Future Terrains of Transformation
30 Dropping the Disability Beat: Why Specialized Reporting Doesn’t Solve Disability (Mis)representation
CHELSEA TEMPLE JONES
31 Advertising Disability and the Diversity Directive
JOSH LOEBNER
32 Disability Advocacy in BBC’s Ouch and ABC’s
SHAWN BURNS
33 Representing Difference: Disability, Digital Storytelling and Public Pedagogy
CARLA RICE AND ELIZA CHANDLER
34 Needs Must: Digital Innovations in Disability Rights Advocacy
FILIPPO TREVISAN
35 Disability Media Work
KATIE ELLIS AND MELISSA MERCHANT
36 Books and People with Print Disabilities: Public Value and the International Disability Human Rights Agenda
DAVID ADAIR AND PAUL HARPUR
