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L'internet au Maroc: Militantismes, sociabilités et solidarités numériques

Souad Souad Azizi (ed.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 211 pp.

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Accessible Digital Textbooks Using Universal Design for Learning: For Learners With and Without Disabilities

New York: UNICEF (2019), 95 pp.

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Leveraging the Potential of Mobile for Persons with Disabilities: Scoping Study

London: GSMA (2018), 40 pp.

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Mediennutzung von Menschen mit Behinderungen: Forschungsbericht

Ingo Bosse, Uwe Hasebrink et al.

Berlin; Bonn; Dortmund; Hamburg: Die Medienanstalten;Aktion Mensch;Technische Universität Dortmund;Hans-Bredow-Institut (2016), 150 pp.

"Insgesamt wird deutlich, dass mit einer Beeinträchtigung weiterhin spezifische Risiken in der Mediennutzung durch Zugangs- und Teilhabebarrieren einhergehen. Die bedeutsamsten Handlungsfelder für die Gestaltung von Inklusionsprozessen durch mediale Teilhabe und die größten Handlungsbedarfe aufg ... more

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Applied Cyberpsychology: Practical Applications of Cyberpsychological Theory and Research

Alison Attrill, Chris Fullwood (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvii, 266 pp.

"Cyberpsychology is an emerging area of psychological study that aims to understand and explain all facets of online behaviour. This book brings together overviews from a number of leading authorities in the field, to suggest how academic theory and research can be applied to a variety of online beh ... more

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Digital Anthropology

Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller (eds.)

London: Berg (2012), x, 316 pp.

"This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has already become. Through a range of case studies from Facebook to Second Life to Google Earth, Digital Anthropology explores how human ... more

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Guía práctica sobre producción de materiales accesibles para personas con discapacidad visual

Norma Toucedo, Alejandro Schinca

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2011), 46 pp.

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Disability and New Media

Katie Ellis, Mike Kent

New York; London: Routledge (2011), xii, 172 pp.

"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 ... more

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Media for All: Subtitling for the Deaf, Audio Description, and Sign Language

Jorge Díaz Cintas, Pilar Orero, Aline Remael (eds.)

Amsterdam: Rodopi (2007), 255 pp.

"This book, a first in its kind, offers a survey of the present state of affairs in media accessibility research and practice. It focuses on professional practices which are relative newcomers within the field of audiovisual translation and media studies, namely, audio description for the blind and ... more

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Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change

Charles A. Riley

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England (2005), xviii, 258 pp.

"In the past decade, the mass media discovered disability. Spurred by the box-office appeal of superstars such as the late Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Hawking, and others, and given momentum by the success of Oscar-winning movies, popular television shows, best-selling books, and prof ... itable websites, major media corporations have reversed their earlier course of hiding disability, bringing it instead to center stage. Yet depictions of disability have remained largely unchanged since the 1920s. Focusing almost exclusively on the medical aspect of injury or illness, the disability profile in fact and fiction leads inevitably to an inspiring moment of “overcoming.” According to Riley, this cliché plays well with a general audience, but such narratives, driven by prejudice and pity, highlight the importance of “fixing” the disability and rendering the “sufferer” as normal as possible. These stories are deeply offensive to persons with disabilities. Equally important, misguided coverage has adverse effects on crucial aspects of public policy, such as employment, social services, and health care. Powerful and influential, the media is complicit in this distortion of disability issues that has proven to be a factor in the economic and social repression of one in five Americans. Newspapers and magazines continue to consign disability stories to the “back of the book” health or human-interest sections, using offensive language that has long been proscribed by activists. Filmmakers compound the problem by featuring angry misfits or poignant heroes of melodramas that pair love and redemption. Publishers churn out self-help titles and memoirs that milk the disability theme for pathos. As Riley points out, all branches of the media are guilty of the same crude distillation of the story to serve their own, usually fiscal, ends. Riley’s lively inside investigation illuminates the extent of the problem while pinpointing how writers, editors, directors, producers, filmmakers, advertisers and the executives who give their marching orders go wrong, or occasionally get it right. Through a close analysis of the technical means of representation, in conjunction with the commentary of leading voices in the disability community, Riley guides future coverage to a more fair and accurate way of putting the disability story on screen or paper. He argues that with the “discovery” by Madison Avenue that the disabled community is a major consumer niche, the economic rationale for more sophisticated coverage is at hand. It is time, says Riley, to cut through the accumulated stereotypes and find an adequate vocabulary that will finally represent the disability community in all its vibrant and fascinating diversity." (Publisher description) more