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 PART I Imagining and Representing Disability 1 Disability Imaginaries in the News 2 What’s It All Worth? The Political Economy of Disability Representation in Indian Media 3 Decolonizing the Dynamics of Media Power and Media Representation Between 1830 and 1930: Australian Indigenous Peoples with Disability 4 Featuring Disabled Women in Advertisements: The Commodification of Diversity? 5 Still Playing It Safe: A Comparative Analysis of Disability Narratives in The Sessions, Breathing Lessons and "On Seeing A Sex Surrogate" 6 Mental Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films: Greenberg and Silver Linings Playbook 7 Still Julianne: Projecting Dementia on the Silvering Screen 8 Authentic Disability Representation on US Television Past and Present 9 The Spectacularization of Disability Sport: Brazilian and Australian Newspaper photographs of 2012 London Paralympic Athletes 10 George R. R. Martin and the Two Dwarfs 11 Embodying Metaphors: Disability Tropes in Political Cartoons 12 Resisting Erasure: Reading (Dis)ability and Race in Speculative Media PART II Audience, Participation, and Making Media 13 Producerly Disability Popular Culture: The Collision of Critical and Receptive Attitudes 14 The Bodies of Film Club: Disability, Identity and Empowerment 15 Disability Narratives in the News Media: A Spotlight on Africa 16 Disabled Media Creators in Afghanistan, China and Somalia 17 Youth with Disabilities in Africa: Bridging the Disability Divide 18 Engaging Accessibility Issues Through Mobile Videos in Montréal 19 Pages of Life: Using a Telenovela to Promote the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Brazil 20 How Do You Write That in Sign Language?: A Graphic Signed Novel as Source of Epistemological Reflection on Writing PART III Media Technologies of Disability 21 GimpGirl: Insider Perspectives on Technology and the Lives of Disabled Women 22 Digital Media Accessibility: An Evolving Infrastructure of Possibility 23 Making the Web More Interactive and Accessible for Blind People 24 Social Media and Disability: It’s Complicated 25 When Face-to-Face Is Screen-to-Screen: Reconsidering Mobile Media as Communication Augmentations and Alternatives 26 Mobile Phones and Visual Impairment in South Africa: Experiences from a Small Town 27 Video on Demand: Is this Australia’s New Disability Divide? 28 Individuals with Physical Impairments as Life Hackers?: Analyzing Online Content to Interrogate Dis/Ability and Design 29 Interdependence in Collaboration with Robots PART IV Innovations, Challenges and Future Terrains of Transformation 30 Dropping the Disability Beat: Why Specialized Reporting Doesn’t Solve Disability (Mis)representation 31 Advertising Disability and the Diversity Directive 32 Disability Advocacy in BBC’s Ouch and ABC’s 33 Representing Difference: Disability, Digital Storytelling and Public Pedagogy 34 Needs Must: Digital Innovations in Disability Rights Advocacy 35 Disability Media Work 36 Books and People with Print Disabilities: Public Value and the International Disability Human Rights Agenda