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.
International in scope and orientation, The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media offers students and scholars alike a comprehensive survey of the intersections between disability studies and media studies
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"Introduction: Disability and Media––an Emergent Field KATIE ELLIS, GERARD GOOGIN, BETH HALLER AND ROSEMARY CURTIS PART I Imagining and Representing Disability 1 Disability Imaginaries in the News TANYA TITCHKOSKY 2 What’s It All Worth? The Political Economy of Disability Representation in Indian Media NOOKARAJU BENDUKURTHI AND USHA RAMAN 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 4 Featuring Disabled Women in Advertisements: The Commodification of Diversity? ELLA HOUSTON 5 Still Playing It Safe: A Comparative Analysis of Disability Narratives in The Sessions, Breathing Lessons and ""On Seeing A Sex Surrogate"" JONATHAN BARTHOLOMY 6 Mental Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films: Greenberg and Silver Linings Playbook ALISON WILDE 7 Still Julianne: Projecting Dementia on the Silvering Screen SALLY CHIVERS 8 Authentic Disability Representation on US Television Past and Present BETH HALLER 9 The Spectacularization of Disability Sport: Brazilian and Australian Newspaper photographs of 2012 London Paralympic Athletes TATIANE HILGEMBERG, KATIE ELLIS AND MADISON MAGLADRY 10 George R. R. Martin and the Two Dwarfs MIA HARRISON 11 Embodying Metaphors: Disability Tropes in Political Cartoons BETH HALLER 12 Resisting Erasure: Reading (Dis)ability and Race in Speculative Media SAMI SCHALK PART II Audience, Participation, and Making Media 13 Producerly Disability Popular Culture: The Collision of Critical and Receptive Attitudes KATIE ELLIS 14 The Bodies of Film Club: Disability, Identity and Empowerment FIONA WHITTINGTON-WALSH, AND KYA BEZANSON, CHRISTIAN BURTON, JACI MACKENDRICK, KATIE MILLER, EMMA SAWATZKY and COLTON TURNER 15 Disability Narratives in the News Media: A Spotlight on Africa OLUSOLA OGUNDOLA 16 Disabled Media Creators in Afghanistan, China and Somalia PATRICIA CHADWICK 17 Youth with Disabilities in Africa: Bridging the Disability Divide KIMBERLY O’HAVER 18 Engaging Accessibility Issues Through Mobile Videos in Montréal LAURENCE PARENT 19 Pages of Life: Using a Telenovela to Promote the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Brazil PATRICIA ALMEIDA 20 How Do You Write That in Sign Language?: A Graphic Signed Novel as Source of Epistemological Reflection on Writing VÉRO LEDUC PART III Media Technologies of Disability 21 GimpGirl: Insider Perspectives on Technology and the Lives of Disabled Women JENNIFER COLE AND JASON NOLAN 22 Digital Media Accessibility: An Evolving Infrastructure of Possibility ELIZABETH ELLCESSOR 23 Making the Web More Interactive and Accessible for Blind People JONATHAN LAZAR AND BRIAN WENTZ 24 Social Media and Disability: It’s Complicated MICHAEL KENT 25 When Face-to-Face Is Screen-to-Screen: Reconsidering Mobile Media as Communication Augmentations and Alternatives MERYL ALPER 26 Mobile Phones and Visual Impairment in South Africa: Experiences from a Small Town LORENZO DALVIT 27 Video on Demand: Is this Australia’s New Disability Divide? WAYNE HAWKINS 28 Individuals with Physical Impairments as Life Hackers?: Analyzing Online Content to Interrogate Dis/Ability and Design JERRY ROBINSON 29 Interdependence in Collaboration with Robots ELEANOR SANDRY PART 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 31 Advertising Disability and the Diversity Directive JOSH LOEBNER 32 Disability Advocacy in BBC’s Ouch and ABC’s SHAWN BURNS 33 Representing Difference: Disability, Digital Storytelling and Public Pedagogy CARLA RICE AND ELIZA CHANDLER 34 Needs Must: Digital Innovations in Disability Rights Advocacy FILIPPO TREVISAN 35 Disability Media Work KATIE ELLIS AND MELISSA MERCHANT 36 Books and People with Print Disabilities: Public Value and the International Disability Human Rights Agenda DAVID ADAIR AND PAUL HARPUR"
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.
