The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media

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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 This book is available as an accessible eBook. For more information, please visit https: //taylorandfrancis.com/about/corporate-.... Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Foreword by Faye Ginsburg Introduction: Disability and Media—An Emergent Field Introduction Disability and Media in Research and Teaching User’s Guide to Disability and Media Companion Conclusion Notes PART I: Imagining and Representing Disability 1. Disability Imaginaries in the News Introduction Imagine Disability; Now Imagine Life with This Problem Disability and the Social Imaginary Human Imaginary Disability Imaginaries and Rethinking Normalcy Conclusion Notes 2. What’s It All Worth? The Political Economy of Disability Representation in Indian Media Introduction Uncovering Meaning in Disability News Production Framing Disability in News Political Economy The Idea of Inclusion Ambivalence and Skepticism Conclusion Notes 3. Decolonizing the Dynamics of Media Power and Media Representation Between 1830 and 1930: Australian Indigenous Peoples with Disability Introduction Print News Media and Minority Groups Critical Disability Studies at the Cultural Interface Indigenous People with Disability in the Colonial Press The Future of Disability and the News Media Notes 4. Featuring Disabled Women in Advertisements: The Commodification of Diversity? Introduction Disability, Gender and Advertising: Taking aFeminist Disability Studies Approach Advertisements Featuring Representations of Mobility Impairment Conclusion Notes 5. Still Playing It Safe: A Comparative Analysis of Disability Narratives in The Sessions, Breathing Lessons and “On Seeing A Sex Surrogate” Introduction The Sessions Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien “On Seeing aSex Surrogate” Conclusion Notes 6. Mental Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films: Greenberg and Silver Linings Playbook Greenberg Silver Linings Playbook Conclusion Notes 7. Still Julianne: Projecting Dementia on the Silvering Screen The Dementia Plot Defying Age Promotes Ageism: Awards and Older Actresses Conclusion Notes 8. Authentic Disability Representation on US Television Past and Present Research About the Impact of TV Stars with Disabilities Disability Issues in the News Influencing TV Content Disabled Actors Shift from Guest Starring Roles to Principal Character Roles Disabled People and the Birth of Reality TV Conclusion Notes 9. The Spectacularization of Disability Sport: Brazilian and Australian Newspaper Photographs of 2012 London Paralympic Athletes Introduction Prior Research: AStory of Disparity Method Results Discussion Conclusion Notes 10. George R. R. Martin and the Two Dwarfs Introduction The Function of Disability in Narrative Fiction Intersectional Disability Politics Conclusion Notes 11. Embodying Metaphors: Disability Tropes in Political Cartoons Cartoons as Cultural Communication Analysis of Tropes about Disability in Political Cartoons The Power of Disability Metaphors Conclusion Notes 12. Resisting Erasure: Reading (Dis)Ability and Race in Speculative Media Conclusion Notes PART II: Audience, Participation and Making Media 13. Producerly Disability Popular Culture: The Collision of Critical and Receptive Attitudes Defining Culture and Popular Culture Popular Culture and the Social Model of Disability Popular Culture in the Cultural Model of Disability Disability Arts as Disability Culture Disability and Producerly Popular Culture Conclusion Notes 14. The Bodies of Film Club: Disability, Identity and Empowerment Introduction Creating Connections Methodology Group Discussions Keeping Connected IAm Sam Acknowledgments Notes 15. Disability Narratives in the News Media: A Spotlight on Africa Introduction Why the News Media Ignore Disability Stories News Media Workers’ Economy in Africa Narratives that Shape Disability Stories in the News Media Making Right the Wrongs of Several Decades of Disability Misrepresentation in the News Media in Africa Conclusion Notes 16. Disabled Media Creators in Afghanistan, China and Somalia Introduction Afghanistan: Qahir-e-Qahraman Radio Program China: ARadio Station and Disability Rights Organization Founded and Operated by People with Disabilities Somalia: Working with the Media Conclusion Notes 17. Youth with Disabilities in Africa: Bridging the Disability Divide Introduction Methodology African Youth with Disabilities Network ICT in Africa Disability in the African Context and among AYWDN Members Seray and Frank: African Youth with Disabilities Defining Digital Activism Conclusion Notes 18. Engaging Accessibility Issues Through Mobile Videos in Montréal ANew Weapon of Resistance in My Activist Toolkit Cripping Mobile Filmmaking The Bumpy Road to Anti-Ableist Mobile Video Practices and Social Media Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes 19. Pages of Life: Using a Telenovela to Promote the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Brazil Inclusive Education in Brazil MetaSocial Institute34 Documentary: “From Grief to Struggle” The Pages of Life Storyline about Down Syndrome Exploding Myths about Down Syndrome The Influence of Pages of Life Media Representations and Disability Rights Notes 20. How Do You Write That in Sign Language? A Graphic Signed Novel as a Source of Epistemological Reflection on Writing AGraphic Novel in LSQ The Many Ways of Writing Sign Languages The Milan Congress and the Oppression of Sign Languages Three-Dimensional Writing for a Three-Dimensional Language Transforming the Writing Process Transforming Situated Perspectives The Graphic Novel, Agency and Digital Media Episteme and LSQ: What Does the Future Hold? Acknowledgments Notes PART III: Media Technologies of Disability 21.GimpGirl: Insider Perspectives on Technology and the Lives of Disabled Women The Beginning History of ICT Use: ATale of Many Platforms Language Governance Access to Technology Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes 22. Digital Media Accessibility: An Evolving Infrastructure of Possibility Introduction Early Standardization, Specificity and Audiences Harmonization and aProfessional Context Variety and Digital Media Accessibility Conclusion Notes 23. Making the Web More Interactive and Accessible for Blind People Introduction Background on Information Technology Accessibility Areas of Web Media Where Inaccessibility Has an Exclusionary Impact Emerging Technology That Could Have aPositive Impact Conclusion Notes 24. Social Media and Disability: It’s Complicated Introduction Why Social Media Matters Disability, Social Media and Activism Social Media, Disclosure and Privacy The Evolution of Social Media Accessibility Future Trends in Social Media Conclusion Notes 25. When Face-to-Face Is Screen-to-Screen: Reconsidering Mobile Media as Communication Augmentations and Alternatives Introduction Defining Augmentative and Alternative Communication Developing Communication Theory Through The Theory Of Everything Communication Augmentations and Alternatives Conclusion Notes 26.Mobile Phones and Visual Impairment in South Africa: Experiences from a Small Town Disability in South Africa Being Visually Impaired in aSmall South African Town The Town Experience The Township Experience The Campus Experience Reflections and Discussion Conclusions and Recommendations Acknowledgments Notes 27. Video on Demand: Is This Australia’s New Disability Digital Divide? Introduction VOD Down Under Viewing VOD Through aCritical Disability Theory Lens Digital Divide Video on Demand Policy Discourse Conclusion Notes 28. Individuals with Physical Impairments as Life Hackers? Analyzing Online Content to Interrogate Dis/Ability and Design Life Hacking: The Confluence of Disability, Technology and Daily Living Methodology and Data Sources What Activities Constitute Life Hacking by Individuals with Impairments? Reflections and Discussion Conclusions and Implications Notes 29. Interdependence in Collaboration with Robots Introduction Autonomous Assistive Robots and Robot Carers Semi-Autonomous Assistive Robots Independence, Autonomy and Care Robots Interdependence, Partnership and Collaboration with Robots as Agents Leaning and Lifting with Robots in the Future Notes PART IV: Innovations, Challenges and Future Terrains of Transformation 30. Dropping the Disability Beat: Why Specialized Reporting Doesn’t Solve Disability (Mis)representation Working Through Newsroom Norms #Redirecting: New Disability Journalism Shape-Shifting Through Writing Blurring the Beat: Emergent Disability Journalism Disappearances and Backstories: Making Something Our Own Notes 31. Advertising Disability and the Diversity Directive Introduction The Shifting Nature of Advertising, Inspiration and Identity Economic Impact Lack of Disability Visibility in Ads and in Agencies An Industry Moving from Discrimination Towards Diversity and Inclusion Commercials and Controversy: Inspiration Porn Supercrips, Paralympics and the Super Bowl Realistic Portrayals and Inclusion Becoming the Norm in Advertising Watershed Moment with Consumer-Generated Media Social Media’s Rising Chorus of Disabled Voices Embracing Disability Inclusion in Online Experiences Conclusion Notes 32. Disability Advocacy in BBC’s Ouch and ABC’s Ramp Up Disability and Advocacy Journalism Background Ouch33 Ramp Ups And Downs Save ABC Ramp Up Conclusion Notes 33. Representing Difference: Disability, Digital Storytelling and Public Pedagogy Why Media Matters The Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice Audience Reactions Conclusion Notes 34. Needs Must: Digital Innovations in Disability Rights Advocacy Introduction Crisis as aCatalyst of Digital Disability Advocacy Beyond Tactics: New Disability Rights Networks and Leaders Digital Storytelling and Disability Advocacy Counter-Narratives Conclusion Notes 35. Disability Media Work Introduction Background Employers’ Concerns Disabled Employees’ Concerns Now Media: Web Series and Disability Acting The Effluent Citizen Conclusion Notes 36. Books and People with Print Disabilities: Public Value and the International Disability Human Rights Agenda Introduction The Social Model of Disability Politics Culture and Citizenship The CRPD The Marrakesh Treaty Conclusion Notes Index