Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies (Routledge Research in Disability and Media Studies)

Routledge

ISBN 10: 1138603015 / ISBN 13: 9781138603011

Published by Routledge, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies (Routledge Research in Disability and Media Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138603015
• ISBN 13: 9781138603011
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very good

About this title

Synopsis

Bringing together scholars from around the world to research the intersection between media and disability, this edited collection aims to offer an interdisciplinary exploration and critique of print, broadcast and online representations of physical and mental impairments.

Drawing on a wide range of case studies addressing how people can be ‘othered’ in contemporary media, the chapters focus on analyses of hateful discourses about disability on Reddit, news coverage of disability and education, media access of individuals with disabilities, the logic of memes and brain tumour on Twitter, celebrity and Down Syndrome on Instagram, disability in TV drama, the metaphor of disability for the nation; as well as an autoethnography of treatment of breast cancer. Providing a much-needed global perspective, Disability, Media, and Representations examines the relationship between self-representation and representations in either reinforcing or debunking myths around disability, and ways in which academic discourse can be differently articulated to study the relationship between media and disability.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers of disability studies and media studies as well as activists and readers engaged in debates on diversity, inclusivity and the media.

About the Author

Jacob Johanssen is Senior Lecturer in Communications, St. Mary's University (London, UK). His research interests include audience research, social media, media and the body, psychoanalysis and the media, affect theory, as well as digital culture.

Diana Garrisi is lecturer in journalism, Xi’An Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Suzhou, China). Her research interests include: body image and the media, rhetorical theory, cultural history and science communication.