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

GERARD GOGGIN, KATIE ELLIS, BETH HALLER, AND ROSEMARY CURTIS



 

PART I

Imagining and Representing Disability



Disability Imaginaries in the News

TANYA TITCHKOSKY



What’s It All Worth? The Political Economy of Disability Representation in Indian Media

NOOKARAJU BENDUKURTHI AND USHA RAMAN



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



Featuring Disabled Women in Advertisements: The Commodification of Diversity?

ELLA HOUSTON



Still Playing It Safe: A Comparative Analysis of Disability Narratives in The Sessions, Breathing Lessons, and "On Seeing A Sex Surrogate"

JONATHAN BARTHOLOMY



Mental Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films: Greenberg and Silver Linings Playbook

ALISON WILDE



Still Julianne: Projecting Dementia on the Silvering Screen

SALLY CHIVERS



Authentic Disability Representation on U.S. Television Past and Present

BETH HALLER



The Spectacularization of Disability Sport: Brazilian and Australian Newspaper photographs of 2012 London Paralympic Athletes

TATIANE HILGEMBERG, KATIE ELLIS AND MADISON MAGLADRY



George R. R. Martin and the Two Dwarfs

MIA HARRISON



Embodying Metaphors: Disability Tropes in Political Cartoons

BETH HALLER



Resisting Erasure: Reading (Dis)ability and Race in Speculative Media

SAMI SCHALK



 

PART II

Audience, Participation, and Making Media



Producerly Disability Popular Culture: The collision of critical and receptive attitudes

KATIE ELLIS



The Bodies of Film Club: Disability, Identity, and Empowerment

FIONA WHITTINGTON-WALSH, AND KYA BEZANSON, CHRISTIAN BURTON, JACI MACKENDRICK, KATIE MILLER, EMMA SAWATZKY, COLTON TURNER



Disability Narratives in the News Media: A Spotlight on Africa

OLUSOLA OGUNDOLA



Disabled Media Creators in Afghanistan, China and Somalia

PATRICIA CHADWICK



Youth with Disabilities in Africa: Bridging the Disability Divide

KIMBERLY O’HAVER



Engaging Accessibility Issues through Mobile Videos in Montréal

LAURENCE PARENT



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

PATRICIA ALMEIDA



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



GimpGirl: Insider Perspectives on Technology and the Lives of Disabled Women

JENNIFER COLE AND JASON NOLAN



Digital Media Accessibility: An Evolving Infrastructure of Possibility

ELIZABETH ELLCESSOR



Making the Web More Interactive and Accessible for Blind People

JONATHAN LAZAR AND BRIAN WENTZ



Social Media and Disability—It’s Complicated

MICHAEL KENT



When Face-to-Face is Screen-to-Screen: Reconsidering Mobile Media as Communication Augmentations and Alternatives

MERYL ALPER



Mobile Phones and Visual Impairment in South Africa: Experiences from a Small Town

LORENZO DALVIT



Video on Demand: Is this Australia’s New Disability Divide?

WAYNE HAWKINS



Individuals with Physical Impairments as Life Hackers?: Analyzing Online Content to Interrogate Dis/Ability and Design

JERRY ROBINSON



Interdependence in Collaboration with Robots

ELEANOR SANDRY



 

PART IV

Innovations, Challenges, and Future Terrains of Transformation



Dropping the Disability Beat: Why Specialized Reporting Doesn’t Solve Disability (Mis)representation

CHELSEA TEMPLE JONES



Advertising Disability and the Diversity Directive

JOSH LOEBNER



Disability Advocacy in BBC’s Ouch and ABC’s Ramp Up

SHAWN BURNS



Representing Difference: Disability, Digital Storytelling, and Public Pedagogy

CARLA RICE AND ELIZA CHANDLER



Needs Must: Digital Innovations in Disability Rights Advocacy

FILIPPO TREVISAN



Disability Media Work

KATIE ELLIS AND MELISSA MERCHANT



Books and People with Print Disabilities: Public Value and the International Disability Human Rights Agenda

DAVID ADAIR AND PAUL HARPUR