"This book seeks to expand some of the existing, often western and Global North facing, scholarship in the area of Disability and Media Studies to include African perspectives. Featuring predominantly Africa-based contributors, it studies an array of topics on disability and media in Africa, includi
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ng issues of social media, media ethics, including marginalised voices in the media, and disability representation in the media." (Publisher description)
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"This Practical Manual advances Disability Equality in the Media. It offers handy recommendations for all industry professionals - from editors and reporters to content producers and technical teams, as well as human resources officers and managers. The manual supports the adoption of more inclusive
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and equitable editorial policies and programming, including in emergency response and investigations. It also offers recommendations to produce accessible media content, which is invaluable in the digital transition. Finally, it aims to inspire innovation and creativity in ensuring diversity, equality, and inclusion of media professionals with disabilities in media organizations." (Back cover)
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"En un mundo globalizado donde la información fluye, los medios de comunicación tienen un papel esencial en moldear opiniones y actitudes. En El discurso de odio en los medios de Ecuador: percepciones y soluciones, estudiantes del sexto ciclo de Comunicación en la Universidad Politécnica Salesia
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na, sede Cuenca, abordan un tema de gran relevancia en nuestra sociedad actual. Utilizando su formación académica como base enriquecedora, estos jóvenes investigadores exploran el fenómeno del discurso de odio en los medios de comunicación ecuatorianos. A través de estudios de caso y análisis críticos rigurosos, examinan cómo ciertas expresiones mediáticas pueden perpetuar estereotipos dañinos, promover la división y socavar los pilares de una sociedad diversa y plural. Este libro no solo arroja luz sobre los desafíos que enfrenta nuestra sociedad respecto al discurso de odio, sino que también destaca la importancia de una comunicación responsable y ética mediante propuestas para mitigar la misoginia, homofobia, racismo, xenofobia y disablismo en los medios de comunicación en el contexto ecuatoriano." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"The Namibia Media Trust (NMT) has launched a project to empower persons with disabilities in Namibia. The project aims to help enable them to actively participate in democratic processes and develop critical media production and literacy skills for self-advocacy. The NMT believes that decisions con
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cerning persons with disabilities are legitimate only if those affected by them have an equal opportunity to participate in the decision-making process. The project will establish an inclusive and accessible information-sharing platform to help beneficiaries exercise their rights to access information. Over a period of three months, the NMT plans to create a newsletter run by persons with disabilities, in which they can share multimedia content, address relevant issues, and advocate for the rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities in Namibian society. The project focuses on skills development and aims to ensure the long-term sustainability of the platform for promoting access to information and self-advocacy." (Page 1)
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"This guide seeks to help journalists report on issues impacting people with disabilities in a way that is informed and without prejudice. It includes information on some of the various definitions of disability, important data and resources, and key issues for journalists to investigate. It also di
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scusses how disability can differ between the medical world and the communities themselves and offers tips on how journalists can avoid getting tripped up on language, as well as tips on interview accessibility and finding the right sources." (https://www.comminit.com)
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"Es reconocida la influencia que tienen los medios de comunicación en la construcción y reproducción de estas representaciones sociales. Los contenidos comunicativos contribuyen a la creación o refuerzo de estereotipos, que en algunos casos generan valoraciones inadecuadas que fomentan la exclus
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ión o la estigmatización de determinados grupos poblacionales. Es por esto que la Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones - CRC - consideró primordial conocer los elementos que caracterizan a las representaciones sociales que se emiten en los contenidos audiovisuales, ya que los medios de comunicación y, en especial, la televisión tiene gran incidencia en la manera en que los colombianos nos identificamos y nos reconocemos cultural y socialmente. Por lo tanto, conocer los roles y los comportamientos que se les asignan a los diferentes grupos poblacionales en los contenidos televisivos es fundamental para evidenciar cómo la diversidad y el pluralismo son tenidos en cuenta en estos." (Introducción, página 4)
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"This article examines the discursive construction of male disability in Los informantes, a national Colombian TV show. By combining critical discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, and queer linguistics with (critical) disability studies and crip theory, it examines three TV reports that
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narrate the lives of a physically disabled Venezuelan migrant, a young Colombian with Down syndrome, and a physically disabled Colombian living in Great Britain. The analysis shows that Los informantes relies on inspirational and individualistic imagery that conceals the role of the neoliberal state in debilitating the lives of these men. By using a set of linguistic, visual, and discursive strategies (the supercrip figure, narrative prosthesis, and inclusionist profitability, among others), the reports mask the social and political aspects of disability." (Abstract)
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"As part of the Inclusive Futures programme, BBC Media Action produced a radio drama, Story Story, and accompanying social media content, to tackle stigma and discrimination around disability in Nigeria. This content was broadcast from November 2020 to November 2021 through local radio partners in s
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ix states – Enugu, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kano, Kaduna, Kogi and Lagos. This briefing draws on a literature review and key insights from BBC Media Action’s mixed-methods evaluation of the drama conducted in June and July 2021. The evaluation included a large-scale quantitative household survey and qualitative research in the six states. It examines the evidence for using drama to address disability-related stigma, discusses lessons on how best to engage audiences on disability inclusion through media and evaluates the impact of the Story Story drama on audiences. It also includes examples of characters, storylines and dialogues to illustrate how the drama addressed disability inclusion and related stigma. The briefing concludes by reflecting on what the evaluation tells us about the role that media and communication, specifically drama, can play in supporting disability inclusion and tackling disability-related stigma and discrimination." (Page 2)
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"In this manual, we discuss key disability issues, key messages and principles for journalists wanting to support the human rights of Africans with disabilities. The manual also deals with terminology - it is about using words and that puts the person rather than the disability first. Jounalists wil
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l learn how to create disability programs that resonate with their audiences and encourage wider PwDs (Persons with Disability) participation at every level of the society despite the barriers they must deal with [...] This manual has been developed for handling the workshops based on the contents of the guide. It provides guidelines and tools for a three-day workshop on the guide." (Pages 3-4)
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"La primera parte invita a reflexionar sobre los criterios de noticiabilidad y el uso de emociones en los contenidos comunicacionales, explora formas discursivas, propone una estructura de construcción de héroes y plantea algunas interrogantes para identificar estereotipos y falsos paradigmas en l
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as comunicaciones. La segunda parte está orientada hacia el lenguaje, la evolución del concepto de discapacidad y sus diferentes modelos. Asimismo, se sugieren ejemplos para reflexionar respecto al contenido y abarca algunas pinceladas mínimas de análisis del discurso y fundamentos de lingüística. En la tercera parte se expone un análisis crítico sobre el tratamiento de informaciones relativas a personas con discapacidad en el contexto dominicano, se presentan los resultados de un levantamiento hecho por nuestro equipo en los periódicos El Nuevo Diario, Hoy, Listín Diario, El Caribe y Diario Libre sobre el caso de La Lotería. El abordaje del estudio es propositivo, analiza conceptos y las interpretaciones narrativas que estos sugieren, invita a reflexionar respecto a cómo se construyen los relatos sociales a través de los canales de comunicación utilizados en los espacios periodísticos y organizacionales." (Página 7)
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"Rights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea’s increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today
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it is not unusual to see a big-budget production about the pursuit of social justice or the protection of civil liberties contending for the top spot at the box office. With that cultural shift has come a diversification of film subjects, which range from undocumented workers’ rights to the sexual harassment experienced by women to high-school bullying to the struggles among people with disabilities to gain inclusion within a society that has transformed significantly since winning democratic freedoms three decades ago. Combining in-depth textual analyses of films such as Bleak Night, Okja, Planet of Snail, Repatriation, and Silenced with broader historical contextualization, Movie Minorities offers the first English-language study of South Korean cinema’s role in helping to galvanize activist social movements across several identity-based categories." (Publisher description)
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"This handbook aims at helping Macedonian CSOs that work with people with disabilities to deal with some of the challenges they face on daily basis: the absence of quality reporting on people with disabilities; the perception of people with disabilities which is often burdened with negative stereoty
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pes and prejudice; and the lack of practical guidance on how to deal with those challenges." (Introduction, page 5)
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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 globally, alongside next-generation research leaders. Disability and media has emerged as a dynamic and exciting area of c
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ontemporary 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." (Publisher description)
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"This book, the first to specifically focus on disability hate speech, explains what disability hate speech is, why it is important, what laws regulate it (both online and in person) and how it is different from other forms of hate. Unfortunately, disability is often ignored or overlooked in academi
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c, legal, political, and cultural analyses of the broader problem of hate speech. Its unique personal, ideological, economic, political and legal dimensions have not been recognized - until now. Disability hate speech is an everyday experience for many people, leaving terrible psycho-emotional scars. This book includes personal testimonies from victims discussing the personal impact of disability hate speech, explaining in detail how such hatred affects them. It also presents legal, historical, psychological, and cultural analyses, including the results of the first surveys and in-depth interviews ever conducted on this topic in some countries." (Publisher description)
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"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
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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." (Publisher description)
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"Es clara la desconexión que hay entre los periodistas, la sociedad y el concepto de Sordedad para referirse o visibilizar a las personas sordas. Precisamente, tal desunión se impulsa por la simplicidad con que se toma el diagnóstico médico, es decir, el vago conocimiento sobre esta discapacidad
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El recuadro en Lengua de Señas Colombiana es la mejor forma de comunicarse o dirigirse a esta población, el problema es que solo está presente en eventos importantes como debates o alocuciones presidenciales y/o épocas electorales. Por lo tanto, es mínimo su uso aun pudiendo hacerlo en diferido a través de sus plataformas digitales. Durante el tiempo de investigación ningún medio privado usó esta herramienta en noticias de Última Hora y solo algunos medios públicos lo hicieron poniéndolo detrás del titular, es decir, cubriendo la mitad de este.
Las principales barreras que tienen los prosumidores sordos con discapacidad auditiva para ejercer este oficio es que no existe una relación que se crea a través de la interacción. En el sentido de que este no se dirige a ellos y, por ende, no es un campo relevante, tampoco genera el deseo por estudiarlo. ¿Cuántos periodistas sordos aparecen a diario en los medios de comunicación? La respuesta es un mensaje subliminal hacia la persona sorda que representa la inaccesibilidad es estos.
Desde el lenguaje se construyen realidades, por ende, emplearlo erróneamente es segregar a esta población. Términos como lenguaje de señas o sordomudos son excluyentes para esta población. Entonces, el Periodismo no solo no ha sido un campo real y posible para ellos sino también discriminativo. Se dice que el comunicador es lo que es porque sabe comunicar, pero ya no basta con decirlo, es obligatorio hacerlo.
En el caso de Bogotá, que solo hasta hace poco una universidad pública incluyó esta carrera dentro de sus programas, los costos para estudiarla son desproporcionales si se tienen en cuenta los datos demográficos o condiciones socioeconómicas en las que se ubica esta población." (Conclusiones, página 153-154)
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"UNICEF and the Government of Montenegro implemented a communication strategy "It's about ability" to challenge the existing, exclusionary practices and promote new, inclusive social norms for children with disability. Drawing on communication for development principles and social norms theory, a 20
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10-2013 nation-wide campaign mobilized disability rights NGOs, parents associations, media and private sector to stimulate inclusive attitudes and practices towards children with disabilities. As a result, the percentage of citizens who find it acceptable for a child with disability to attend the same class with theirs increased from 35 before the campaign to 80 percent at the end of it. Similarly, the percentage of Montenegrin citizens who find it acceptable for a child with disability to be the best friend of their child increased from 22 before the campaign to 51 percent at the end of it. The campaign was participatory, audience-centred and guided by the key communication planning principles." (Abstract)
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