The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media
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London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxvi, 423 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-1-138-88458-8 (hbk); 978-1-315-71600-8 (ebook)
"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." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Disability and media, an emergent field / Gerard Goggin, Katie Ellis, Beth Haller, and Rosemary Curtis, 1
I. IMAGINING AND REPRESENTING DISABILITY
1 Disability imaginaries in the news / Tanya Titchkosky, 13
2 What's it all worth? The political economy of disability representation in Indian media / Nookaraju Bendukurthi and Usha Raman, 23
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, 35
4 Featuring disabled women in advertisements: the commodification of diversity? / Ella Houston, 50
5 Still playing it safe: a comparative analysis of disability narratives in the sessions, breathing lessons, and "On seeing a sex surrogate" / Jonathan Bartholomy, 59
6 Mental distress, romance and gender in contemporary films: Greenberg and Silver linings playbook / Alison Wilde, 67
7 Still Julianne: projecting dementia on the silvering screen / Sally Chivers, 78
8 Authentic disability representation on U.S. Television past and present / Beth Haller, 88
9 The spectacularization of disability sport: Brazilian and Australian newspaper photographs of 2012 London Paralympic athletes / Tatiane Hilgemberg, Katie Ellis and Madison Magladry, 101
10 George R.R. Martin and the two dwarfs / Mia Harrison, 113
11 Embodying metaphors: disability tropes in political cartoons / Beth Haller, 122
12 Resisting erasure: reading (dis)ability and race in speculative media / Sami Schalk, 137
II. AUDIENCE, PARTICIPATION AND MAKING MEDIA
13 Producerly disability popular culture: the collision of critical and receptive attitudes / Katie Ellis, 149
14 The Bodies of Film Club: disability, identity, and empowerment / Fiona Whittington-Walsh, and Kya Bezanson, Christian Burton, Jaci Mackendrick, Katie Miller, Emma Sawatzky, Colton Turner, 158
15 Disability Narratives in the News Media: A Spotlight on Africa / Olusola Ogundola, 169
16 Disabled media creators in Afghanistan, China and Somalia / Patricia Chadwick, 177
17 Youth with disabilities in Africa: bridging the disability divide / Kimberly O'Haver, 189
18 Engaging accessibility issues through mobile videos in Montréal / Laurence Parent, 199
19 Pages of life: using a telenovela to promote the inclusion of students with disabilities in Brazil / Patricia Almeida, 209
20 How do you write that in sign language? A graphic signed novel as source of epistemological reflection on writing / Véro Leduc, 220
III. MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES OF DISABILITY
21 GimpGirl: insider perspectives on technology and the lives of disabled women / Jennifer Cole and Jason Nolan, 233
22 Digital media accessibility: an evolving vinfrastructure of possibility / Elizabeth Ellcessor, 243
23 Making the web more interactive and accessible for blind people / Jonathan Lazar and Brian Wentz, 252
24 Social media and disability-it's complicated / Mike Kent, 264
25 When Face-to-face is screen-to-screen: reconsidering mobile media as communication augmentations and alternatives / Meryl Alper, 275
26 Mobile phones and visual impairment in South Africa: experiences from a small town / Lorenzo Dalvit, 285
27 Video on demand: is this Australia's new disability divide? / Wayne Hawkins, 295
28 Individuals with physical impairments as life hackers? Analyzing online content to interrogate dis/ability and design / Jerry Robinson, 306
29 Interdependence in collaboration with robots / Eleanor Sandry, 316
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, 329
31 Advertising disability and the diversity directive / Josh Loebner, 341
32 Disability advocacy in BBC's Ouch and ABC's Ramp up / Shawn Burns, 356
33 Representing difference: disability, digital storytelling, and public pedagogy / Carla Rice and Eliza Chandler, 367
34 Needs must: digital innovations in disability rights advocacy / Filippo Trevisan, 377
35 Disability media work / Katie Ellis and Melissa Merchant, 387
36 Books and people with print disabilities: public value and the international disability human rights agenda / David Adair and Paul Harpur, 400
I. IMAGINING AND REPRESENTING DISABILITY
1 Disability imaginaries in the news / Tanya Titchkosky, 13
2 What's it all worth? The political economy of disability representation in Indian media / Nookaraju Bendukurthi and Usha Raman, 23
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, 35
4 Featuring disabled women in advertisements: the commodification of diversity? / Ella Houston, 50
5 Still playing it safe: a comparative analysis of disability narratives in the sessions, breathing lessons, and "On seeing a sex surrogate" / Jonathan Bartholomy, 59
6 Mental distress, romance and gender in contemporary films: Greenberg and Silver linings playbook / Alison Wilde, 67
7 Still Julianne: projecting dementia on the silvering screen / Sally Chivers, 78
8 Authentic disability representation on U.S. Television past and present / Beth Haller, 88
9 The spectacularization of disability sport: Brazilian and Australian newspaper photographs of 2012 London Paralympic athletes / Tatiane Hilgemberg, Katie Ellis and Madison Magladry, 101
10 George R.R. Martin and the two dwarfs / Mia Harrison, 113
11 Embodying metaphors: disability tropes in political cartoons / Beth Haller, 122
12 Resisting erasure: reading (dis)ability and race in speculative media / Sami Schalk, 137
II. AUDIENCE, PARTICIPATION AND MAKING MEDIA
13 Producerly disability popular culture: the collision of critical and receptive attitudes / Katie Ellis, 149
14 The Bodies of Film Club: disability, identity, and empowerment / Fiona Whittington-Walsh, and Kya Bezanson, Christian Burton, Jaci Mackendrick, Katie Miller, Emma Sawatzky, Colton Turner, 158
15 Disability Narratives in the News Media: A Spotlight on Africa / Olusola Ogundola, 169
16 Disabled media creators in Afghanistan, China and Somalia / Patricia Chadwick, 177
17 Youth with disabilities in Africa: bridging the disability divide / Kimberly O'Haver, 189
18 Engaging accessibility issues through mobile videos in Montréal / Laurence Parent, 199
19 Pages of life: using a telenovela to promote the inclusion of students with disabilities in Brazil / Patricia Almeida, 209
20 How do you write that in sign language? A graphic signed novel as source of epistemological reflection on writing / Véro Leduc, 220
III. MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES OF DISABILITY
21 GimpGirl: insider perspectives on technology and the lives of disabled women / Jennifer Cole and Jason Nolan, 233
22 Digital media accessibility: an evolving vinfrastructure of possibility / Elizabeth Ellcessor, 243
23 Making the web more interactive and accessible for blind people / Jonathan Lazar and Brian Wentz, 252
24 Social media and disability-it's complicated / Mike Kent, 264
25 When Face-to-face is screen-to-screen: reconsidering mobile media as communication augmentations and alternatives / Meryl Alper, 275
26 Mobile phones and visual impairment in South Africa: experiences from a small town / Lorenzo Dalvit, 285
27 Video on demand: is this Australia's new disability divide? / Wayne Hawkins, 295
28 Individuals with physical impairments as life hackers? Analyzing online content to interrogate dis/ability and design / Jerry Robinson, 306
29 Interdependence in collaboration with robots / Eleanor Sandry, 316
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, 329
31 Advertising disability and the diversity directive / Josh Loebner, 341
32 Disability advocacy in BBC's Ouch and ABC's Ramp up / Shawn Burns, 356
33 Representing difference: disability, digital storytelling, and public pedagogy / Carla Rice and Eliza Chandler, 367
34 Needs must: digital innovations in disability rights advocacy / Filippo Trevisan, 377
35 Disability media work / Katie Ellis and Melissa Merchant, 387
36 Books and people with print disabilities: public value and the international disability human rights agenda / David Adair and Paul Harpur, 400
