The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media

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 studiesThis book is available as an accessible eBook. For more information, please visit https://taylorandfrancis.com/about/corporate-responsibility/accessibility-at-taylor-francis/.

Introduction: Disability and Media––an Emergent Field GERARD GOGGIN, KATIE ELLIS, BETH HALLER, AND ROSEMARY CURTISPART IImagining and Representing Disability Disability Imaginaries in the NewsTANYA TITCHKOSKYWhat’s It All Worth? The Political Economy of Disability Representation in Indian MediaNOOKARAJU BENDUKURTHI AND USHA RAMANDecolonizing the Dynamics of Media Power and Media Representation Between 1830 and 1930: Australian Indigenous Peoples with DisabilityJOHN GILROY, JO RAGEN AND HELEN MEEKOSHAFeaturing Disabled Women in Advertisements: The Commodification of Diversity?ELLA HOUSTONStill Playing It Safe: A Comparative Analysis of Disability Narratives in The Sessions, Breathing Lessons, and "On Seeing A Sex Surrogate" JONATHAN BARTHOLOMYMental Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films: Greenberg and Silver Linings PlaybookALISON WILDEStill Julianne: Projecting Dementia on the Silvering ScreenSALLY CHIVERS Authentic Disability Representation on U.S. Television Past and PresentBETH HALLERThe Spectacularization of Disability Sport: Brazilian and Australian Newspaper photographs of 2012 London Paralympic Athletes TATIANE HILGEMBERG, KATIE ELLIS AND MADISON MAGLADRYGeorge R. R. Martin and the Two DwarfsMIA HARRISONEmbodying Metaphors: Disability Tropes in Political CartoonsBETH HALLERResisting Erasure: Reading (Dis)ability and Race in Speculative MediaSAMI SCHALKPART IIAudience, Participation, and Making MediaProducerly Disability Popular Culture: The collision of critical and receptive attitudes KATIE ELLISThe Bodies of Film Club: Disability, Identity, and EmpowermentFIONA WHITTINGTON-WALSH, AND KYA BEZANSON, CHRISTIAN BURTON, JACI MACKENDRICK, KATIE MILLER, EMMA SAWATZKY, COLTON TURNERDisability Narratives in the News Media: A Spotlight on AfricaOLUSOLA OGUNDOLADisabled Media Creators in Afghanistan, China and SomaliaPATRICIA CHADWICKYouth with Disabilities in Africa: Bridging the Disability DivideKIMBERLY O’HAVEREngaging Accessibility Issues through Mobile Videos in MontréalLAURENCE PARENTPages of Life: Using a Telenovela to Promote the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in BrazilPATRICIA ALMEIDAHow Do You Write That in Sign Language?: A Graphic Signed Novel as Source of Epistemological Reflection on WritingVÉRO LEDUCPART IIIMedia Technologies of DisabilityGimpGirl: Insider Perspectives on Technology and the Lives of Disabled WomenJENNIFER COLE AND JASON NOLANDigital Media Accessibility: An Evolving Infrastructure of PossibilityELIZABETH ELLCESSORMaking the Web More Interactive and Accessible for Blind PeopleJONATHAN LAZAR AND BRIAN WENTZSocial Media and Disability—It’s ComplicatedMICHAEL KENTWhen Face-to-Face is Screen-to-Screen: Reconsidering Mobile Media as Communication Augmentations and AlternativesMERYL ALPERMobile Phones and Visual Impairment in South Africa: Experiences from a Small TownLORENZO DALVITVideo on Demand: Is this Australia’s New Disability Divide?WAYNE HAWKINSIndividuals with Physical Impairments as Life Hackers?: Analyzing Online Content to Interrogate Dis/Ability and Design JERRY ROBINSONInterdependence in Collaboration with RobotsELEANOR SANDRYPART IVInnovations, Challenges, and Future Terrains of TransformationDropping the Disability Beat: Why Specialized Reporting Doesn’t Solve Disability (Mis)representationCHELSEA TEMPLE JONESAdvertising Disability and the Diversity DirectiveJOSH LOEBNERDisability Advocacy in BBC’s Ouch and ABC’s Ramp UpSHAWN BURNSRepresenting Difference: Disability, Digital Storytelling, and Public PedagogyCARLA RICE AND ELIZA CHANDLERNeeds Must: Digital Innovations in Disability Rights AdvocacyFILIPPO TREVISANDisability Media WorkKATIE ELLIS AND MELISSA MERCHANTBooks and People with Print Disabilities: Public Value and the International Disability Human Rights AgendaDAVID 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 edited15 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 Normalityand 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. Followingten yearsin 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.