ABSTRACT

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-responsibility/accessibility-at-taylor-francis/.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Disability and Media—An Emergent Field

part I|2 pages

Imagining and Representing Disability

chapter 2|12 pages

What’s It All Worth?

The Political Economy of Disability Representation in Indian Media

chapter 3|15 pages

Decolonizing the Dynamics of Media Power and Media Representation Between 1830 and 1930

Australian Indigenous Peoples with Disability

chapter 4|9 pages

Featuring Disabled Women in Advertisements

The Commodification of Diversity?

chapter 5|8 pages

Still Playing It Safe

A Comparative Analysis of Disability Narratives in The Sessions, Breathing Lessons and “On Seeing a Sex Surrogate”

chapter 6|11 pages

Mental Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films

Greenberg and Silver Linings Playbook

chapter 7|10 pages

Still Julianne

Projecting Dementia on the Silvering Screen

chapter 9|12 pages

The Spectacularization of Disability Sport

Brazilian and Australian Newspaper Photographs of 2012 London Paralympic Athletes

chapter 11|15 pages

Embodying Metaphors

Disability Tropes in Political Cartoons

chapter 12|10 pages

Resisting Erasure

Reading (Dis)Ability and Race in Speculative Media

part II|2 pages

Audience, Participation and Making Media

chapter 13|9 pages

Producerly Disability Popular Culture

The Collision of Critical and Receptive Attitudes

chapter 14|11 pages

The Bodies of Film Club

Disability, Identity and Empowerment

chapter 15|8 pages

Disability Narratives in the News Media

A Spotlight on Africa

chapter 17|10 pages

Youth with Disabilities in Africa

Bridging the Disability Divide

chapter 19|11 pages

Pages of Life

Using a Telenovela to Promote the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Brazil

chapter 20|11 pages

How Do You Write That in Sign Language?

A Graphic Signed Novel as a Source of Epistemological Reflection on Writing

part III|2 pages

Media Technologies of Disability

chapter 21|10 pages

GimpGirl

Insider Perspectives on Technology and the Lives of Disabled Women

chapter 22|9 pages

Digital Media Accessibility

An Evolving Infrastructure of Possibility

chapter 24|11 pages

Social Media and Disability

It’s Complicated

chapter 25|10 pages

When Face-to-Face Is Screen-to-Screen

Reconsidering Mobile Media as Communication Augmentations and Alternatives

chapter 26|10 pages

Mobile Phones and Visual Impairment in South Africa

Experiences from a Small Town

chapter 27|11 pages

Video on Demand

Is This Australia’s New Disability Digital Divide?

chapter 28|10 pages

Individuals with Physical Impairments as Life Hackers?

Analyzing Online Content to Interrogate Dis/Ability and Design

part IV|2 pages

Innovations, Challenges and Future Terrains of Transformation

chapter 30|12 pages

Dropping the Disability Beat

Why Specialized Reporting Doesn’t Solve Disability (Mis)representation

chapter 33|10 pages

Representing Difference

Disability, Digital Storytelling and Public Pedagogy

chapter 34|10 pages

Needs Must

Digital Innovations in Disability Rights Advocacy

chapter 35|13 pages

Disability Media Work

chapter 36|11 pages

Books and People with Print Disabilities

Public Value and the International Disability Human Rights Agenda