The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media

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.

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