Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies
New York; London: Routledge (2020), 197 pp.
Contains index
Series: Routledge Research in Disability and Media Studies
ISBN 978-0-429-89018-5 (ebook); 978-1-138-60301-1 (phbk)
"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." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction / Diana Garrisi and Jacob Johanssen, 1
2 'The stuff of nightmares': Representations of Disability on the online bulletin board Reddit / Leah Burch, 19
3 Madeline Stuart as disability advocate and brand: Exploring the affective economies of social media / Maria Bee Christensen-Strynø and Camilla Bruun Eriksen, 35
4 Losing Someone Like Us: Memetic Logics and Coping with Brain Tumors on Social Media / Samira Rajabi, 51
5 Re-inscribing the Feminine in Breast Cancer: Dis/Ability, Autoethnography and Black Humour / Rachel Velody, 75
6 Knowing North Korea through photographing abled/disabled bodies for the western news / Micky Lee, 94
7 Disabled heroines: Representations of female disability in Japanese television dramas / Anne-Lise Mithout, 114
8 The education of children with disabilities in South African online news reports / Elizabeth Walton and Judith McKenzie, 135
9 Mass Media Use by Persons with Disabilities in Germany and Comparison with the United Kingdom / Ingo Bosse and Annegret Haage, 156
2 'The stuff of nightmares': Representations of Disability on the online bulletin board Reddit / Leah Burch, 19
3 Madeline Stuart as disability advocate and brand: Exploring the affective economies of social media / Maria Bee Christensen-Strynø and Camilla Bruun Eriksen, 35
4 Losing Someone Like Us: Memetic Logics and Coping with Brain Tumors on Social Media / Samira Rajabi, 51
5 Re-inscribing the Feminine in Breast Cancer: Dis/Ability, Autoethnography and Black Humour / Rachel Velody, 75
6 Knowing North Korea through photographing abled/disabled bodies for the western news / Micky Lee, 94
7 Disabled heroines: Representations of female disability in Japanese television dramas / Anne-Lise Mithout, 114
8 The education of children with disabilities in South African online news reports / Elizabeth Walton and Judith McKenzie, 135
9 Mass Media Use by Persons with Disabilities in Germany and Comparison with the United Kingdom / Ingo Bosse and Annegret Haage, 156
