The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media

Herausgeber: Ellis, Katie; Haller, Beth; Goggin, Gerard

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Produktbeschreibung

An authoritative and indispensable guide to disability and media, this thoughtfully curated collection features varied and provocative contributions from distinguished scholars alongside next-generation research leaders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1039g
• ISBN-13: 9781138884588
• ISBN-10: 1138884588
• Artikelnr.: 43677162

Autorenporträt

Katie Ellis is Associate Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University (Australia). She has worked with people with disabilities in government, academia and the community. She has authored and edited 15 books and numerous articles on the topic, including two award-winning papers on digital access and social inclusion. Gerard Goggin is Wee Kim Wee Chair in Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Since 2011, he has been Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. With Christopher Newell, he authored the highly influential Digital Disability (2003) and Disability in Australia (2005; winner of the Australian Human Rights Commission Arts Nonfiction Award). Other key books include Normality and Disability: Intersections Among Norms, Laws and Culture (2018; with Linda Steele and Jess Cadwallader), and Listening to Disability: Voices of Democracy (2020; with Cate Thill and Rosemary Kayess). Beth Haller is the author of Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media (2010) and the editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (2015). She has been researching news and entertainment media images of disability since 1991. She is currently Professor of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland (USA), where she also teaches in the University's Applied Adult Disability Studies minor. She is an adjunct disability studies professor at City University of New York and York University (Canada). Rosemary Curtis is a researcher with over 40 years experience specialising in the screen industries. Following ten years in the library at the Australian Film, TV and Radio School, Rosemary managed the research unit at the Australian Film Commission and Screen Australia from 1990 to 2009. In 2000 Rosemary was awarded the Australian Communications Research Forum award for Outstanding Contribution to Research in an area of Communications.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Disability and Media--an Emergent Field PART I Imagining and
Representing Disability 1 Disability Imaginaries in the News 2 What's It
All Worth? The Political Economy of Disability Representation in Indian
Media 3 Decolonizing the Dynamics of Media Power and Media Representation
Between 1830 and 1930: Australian Indigenous Peoples with Disability 4
Featuring Disabled Women in Advertisements: The Commodification of
Diversity? 5 Still Playing It Safe: A Comparative Analysis of Disability
Narratives in The Sessions, Breathing Lessons and "On Seeing A Sex
Surrogate" 6 Mental Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films:
Greenberg and Silver Linings Playbook 7 Still Julianne: Projecting Dementia
on the Silvering Screen 8 Authentic Disability Representation on US
Television Past and Present 9 The Spectacularization of Disability Sport:
Brazilian and Australian Newspaper photographs of 2012 London Paralympic
Athletes 10 George R. R. Martin and the Two Dwarfs 11 Embodying Metaphors:
Disability Tropes in Political Cartoons 12 Resisting Erasure: Reading
(Dis)ability and Race in Speculative Media PART II Audience, Participation,
and Making Media 13 Producerly Disability Popular Culture: The Collision of
Critical and Receptive Attitudes 14 The Bodies of Film Club: Disability,
Identity and Empowerment 15 Disability Narratives in the News Media: A
Spotlight on Africa 16 Disabled Media Creators in Afghanistan, China and
Somalia 17 Youth with Disabilities in Africa: Bridging the Disability
Divide 18 Engaging Accessibility Issues Through Mobile Videos in Montréal
19 Pages of Life: Using a Telenovela to Promote the Inclusion of Students
with Disabilities in Brazil 20 How Do You Write That in Sign Language?: A
Graphic Signed Novel as Source of Epistemological Reflection on Writing
PART III Media Technologies of Disability 21 GimpGirl: Insider Perspectives
on Technology and the Lives of Disabled Women 22 Digital Media
Accessibility: An Evolving Infrastructure of Possibility 23 Making the Web
More Interactive and Accessible for Blind People 24 Social Media and
Disability: It's Complicated 25 When Face-to-Face Is Screen-to-Screen:
Reconsidering Mobile Media as Communication Augmentations and Alternatives
26 Mobile Phones and Visual Impairment in South Africa: Experiences from a
Small Town 27 Video on Demand: Is this Australia's New Disability Divide?
28 Individuals with Physical Impairments as Life Hackers?: Analyzing Online
Content to Interrogate Dis/Ability and Design 29 Interdependence in
Collaboration with Robots PART IV Innovations, Challenges and Future
Terrains of Transformation 30 Dropping the Disability Beat: Why Specialized
Reporting Doesn't Solve Disability (Mis)representation 31 Advertising
Disability and the Diversity Directive 32 Disability Advocacy in BBC's Ouch
and ABC's 33 Representing Difference: Disability, Digital Storytelling and
Public Pedagogy 34 Needs Must: Digital Innovations in Disability Rights
Advocacy 35 Disability Media Work 36 Books and People with Print
Disabilities: Public Value and the International Disability Human Rights
Agenda