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This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to
address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media,
internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the
Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections
between Chinese language social media and disability, celebrity,
sexuality, interpersonal communication, charity, diaspora, public
health, political activism and non-governmental organisations
(NGOs). The book is not only rich in its theoretical perspectives
but also in its methodologies. Contributors use both qualitative
and quantitative methods to study Chinese social media and its
social-cultural-political implications, such as case studies,
in-depth interviews, participatory observations, discourse
analysis, content analysis and data mining.
This book is an important collection for scholars and students
interested in the critical analysis of digital games, and will be
of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game
design and development, internet studies, visual studies, cultural
studies, communication studies, and media studies, as well as
disability studies The book explores the opportunities and
challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of
digital games from the perspective of three related areas:
representation, access and inclusion, and community Drawing on key
concerns in disability media studies, the book brings together
scholars from disability studies and game studies, alongside game
developers, educators, and disability rights activists, to reflect
upon the increasing visibility of disabled characters in digital
games Chapters explore the contemporary gaming environment as it
relates to disability on platforms such as Twitch, Minecraft, and
Tingyou, while also addressing future possibilities and pitfalls
for people with disabilities within gaming given the rise of
virtual reality applications, and augmented games such as Pokemon
Go The book also asks how game developers can attempt to represent
diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as
examples
This book is an important collection for scholars and students
interested in the critical analysis of digital games, and will be
of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game
design and development, internet studies, visual studies, cultural
studies, communication studies, and media studies, as well as
disability studies The book explores the opportunities and
challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of
digital games from the perspective of three related areas:
representation, access and inclusion, and community Drawing on key
concerns in disability media studies, the book brings together
scholars from disability studies and game studies, alongside game
developers, educators, and disability rights activists, to reflect
upon the increasing visibility of disabled characters in digital
games Chapters explore the contemporary gaming environment as it
relates to disability on platforms such as Twitch, Minecraft, and
Tingyou, while also addressing future possibilities and pitfalls
for people with disabilities within gaming given the rise of
virtual reality applications, and augmented games such as Pokemon
Go The book also asks how game developers can attempt to represent
diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as
examples
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 studies This book is available as an accessible
eBook. For more information, please visit
https://taylorandfrancis.com/about/corporate-responsibility/accessibility-at-taylor-francis/.
As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture
reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the
capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central
theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies,
this book examines disability across a number of internationally
recognised texts and objects from popular culture, including film,
television, magazines and advertising campaigns, children’s toys,
music videos, sport and online spaces, to attend to the social and
cultural construction of disability. While acknowledging that
disability features in popular culture in ways that reinforce
stereotypes and stigmatise, Disability and Popular Culture
celebrates and complicates the increasing visibility of disability
in popular culture, showing how popular culture can focus passion,
create community and express defiance in the context of disability
and social change. Covering a broad range of concerns that lie at
the intersection of disability and cultural studies, including
media representation, identity, the beauty myth, aesthetics,
ableism, new media and sport, this book will appeal to scholars and
students interested in the critical analysis of popular culture,
across disciplines such as disability studies, sociology and
cultural and media studies.
How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our
understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies,
aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history?
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability (the companion volume to
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies)
identifies both the practical and theoretical implications of such
an interdisciplinary dialogue and challenges people in disability
studies as well as other disciplinary fields to critically reflect
on their professional praxis in terms of theory, practice, and
methods. Topics covered include interdisciplinary outlooks ranging
from media studies, games studies, education, performance, history
and curation through to theology and immunology. Perspectives are
drawn from different regions from the European Union to the Global
South with chapters that draw on a range of different national
backgrounds. Our contributors who write as either disabled people
or allies do not proceed from a singular approach to disability,
often reflecting different or even opposing positions. The
collection features contributions from both established and new
voices in international disability studies outlining their own
visions for the future of the field. Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Disability will be of interest to all scholars and students
working within the fields of disability studies, cultural studies,
sociology, law history and education. The concerns raised here are
further in Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability
Studies.
This collection identifies the key tensions and conflicts being
debated within the field of critical disability studies and
provides both an outline of the field in its current form and
offers manifestos for its future direction. Traversing a number of
disciplines from science and technology studies to maternal
studies, the collection offers a transdisciplinary vision for the
future of critical disability studies. Some common thematic
concerns emerge across the book such as digital futures, the
usefulness of anger, creativity, family as disability allies,
intersectionality, ethics, eugenics, accessibility and
interdisciplinarity. However, the contributors who write as either
disabled people or allies do not proceed from a singular approach
to disability, often reflecting different or even opposing
positions on these issues. Containing contributions from
established and new voices in disability studies outlining their
own manifesto for the future of the field, this book will be of
interest to all scholars and students working within the fields of
disability studies, cultural studies, sociology, law, history and
education. The concerns introduced here are further explored in its
sister volume Interdisciplinary approaches to disability: looking
towards the future.
This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to
address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media,
internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the
Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections
between Chinese language social media and disability, celebrity,
sexuality, interpersonal communication, charity, diaspora, public
health, political activism and non-governmental organisations
(NGOs). The book is not only rich in its theoretical perspectives
but also in its methodologies. Contributors use both qualitative
and quantitative methods to study Chinese social media and its
social-cultural-political implications, such as case studies,
in-depth interviews, participatory observations, discourse
analysis, content analysis and data mining.
Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important
addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and
media, examining disability in the context of digital television
access, representation and reception. Television, as a central
medium of communication, has marginalized people with disability
through both representation on screen and the lack of accessibility
to this medium. With accessibility options becoming available as
television is switched to digital transmissions, audience research
into television representations must include a corresponding
consideration of access. This book provides a comprehensive and
critical study of the way people with disability access and watch
digital TV. International case studies and media reports are
complimented by findings of a user-focused study into accessibility
and representation captured during the Australian digital
television switchover in 2013-2014. This book will provide a
reliable, independent guide to fundamental shifts in media access
while also offering insight from the disability community. It will
be essential reading for researchers working on disability and
media, as well as television, communications and culture;
upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in cultural
studies; along with general readers with an interest in disability
and digital culture.
This collection identifies the key tensions and conflicts being
debated within the field of critical disability studies and
provides both an outline of the field in its current form and
offers manifestos for its future direction. Traversing a number of
disciplines from science and technology studies to maternal
studies, the collection offers a transdisciplinary vision for the
future of critical disability studies. Some common thematic
concerns emerge across the book such as digital futures, the
usefulness of anger, creativity, family as disability allies,
intersectionality, ethics, eugenics, accessibility and
interdisciplinarity. However, the contributors who write as either
disabled people or allies do not proceed from a singular approach
to disability, often reflecting different or even opposing
positions on these issues. Containing contributions from
established and new voices in disability studies outlining their
own manifesto for the future of the field, this book will be of
interest to all scholars and students working within the fields of
disability studies, cultural studies, sociology, law, history and
education. The concerns introduced here are further explored in its
sister volume Interdisciplinary approaches to disability: looking
towards the future.
How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our
understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies,
aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history?
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability (the companion volume to
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies)
identifies both the practical and theoretical implications of such
an interdisciplinary dialogue and challenges people in disability
studies as well as other disciplinary fields to critically reflect
on their professional praxis in terms of theory, practice, and
methods. Topics covered include interdisciplinary outlooks ranging
from media studies, games studies, education, performance, history
and curation through to theology and immunology. Perspectives are
drawn from different regions from the European Union to the Global
South with chapters that draw on a range of different national
backgrounds. Our contributors who write as either disabled people
or allies do not proceed from a singular approach to disability,
often reflecting different or even opposing positions. The
collection features contributions from both established and new
voices in international disability studies outlining their own
visions for the future of the field. Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Disability will be of interest to all scholars and students
working within the fields of disability studies, cultural studies,
sociology, law history and education. The concerns raised here are
further in Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability
Studies.
Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new
area of pressing concern, analysing the way in which 'spurned'
identities are depicted and reacted to in televisual genres and
online forums. Examining the symbolic power of the media, this book
presents case studies from drama, situation comedies, reality and
documentary television programmes popular in the UK, USA and
Australia to shed light on the representation of disability,
obesity and ageing, and the manner in which their status as
unwanted and unwelcome identities is perpetuated. A theoretically
sophisticated exploration of television as a translator of
identity, and the exploration of identity categories in allied
virtual spaces, this book will be of interest to sociologists, as
well as scholars of popular culture, and cultural and media
studies.
Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new
area of pressing concern, analysing the way in which 'spurned'
identities are depicted and reacted to in televisual genres and
online forums. Examining the symbolic power of the media, this book
presents case studies from drama, situation comedies, reality and
documentary television programmes popular in the UK, USA and
Australia to shed light on the representation of disability,
obesity and ageing, and the manner in which their status as
unwanted and unwelcome identities is perpetuated. A theoretically
sophisticated exploration of television as a translator of
identity, and the exploration of identity categories in allied
virtual spaces, this book will be of interest to sociologists, as
well as scholars of popular culture, and cultural and media
studies.
Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering
disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now
play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of
protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing
complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for
individual users to control how the content is displayed has been
diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely
technical decisions but they are highly political and betray a
disturbing trend of ableist assumption that serve to exclude people
with disability. It has been argued that the Internet will not be
fully accessible until disability is considered a cultural identity
in the same way that class, gender and sexuality are. Kent and
Ellis build on this notion using more recent Web 2.0 phenomena,
social networking sites, virtual worlds and file sharing. Many of
the studies on disability and the web have focused on the early
web, prior to the development of social networking applications
such as Facebook, YouTube and Second Life. This book discusses an
array of such applications that have grown within and alongside Web
2.0, and analyzes how they both prevent and embrace the inclusion
of people with disability.
Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering
disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now
play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of
protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing
complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for
individual users to control how the content is displayed has been
diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely
technical decisions but they are highly political and betray a
disturbing trend of ableist assumption that serve to exclude people
with disability. It has been argued that the Internet will not be
fully accessible until disability is considered a cultural identity
in the same way that class, gender and sexuality are. Kent and
Ellis build on this notion using more recent Web 2.0 phenomena,
social networking sites, virtual worlds and file sharing. Many of
the studies on disability and the web have focused on the early
web, prior to the development of social networking applications
such as Facebook, YouTube and Second Life. This book discusses an
array of such applications that have grown within and alongside Web
2.0, and analyzes how they both prevent and embrace the inclusion
of people with disability.
Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important
addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and
media, examining disability in the context of digital television
access, representation and reception. Television, as a central
medium of communication, has marginalized people with disability
through both representation on screen and the lack of accessibility
to this medium. With accessibility options becoming available as
television is switched to digital transmissions, audience research
into television representations must include a corresponding
consideration of access. This book provides a comprehensive and
critical study of the way people with disability access and watch
digital TV. International case studies and media reports are
complimented by findings of a user-focused study into accessibility
and representation captured during the Australian digital
television switchover in 2013-2014. This book will provide a
reliable, independent guide to fundamental shifts in media access
while also offering insight from the disability community. It will
be essential reading for researchers working on disability and
media, as well as television, communications and culture;
upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in cultural
studies; along with general readers with an interest in disability
and digital culture.
Social media is popularly seen as an important media for people
with disability in terms of communication, exchange and activism.
These sites potentially increase both employment and leisure
opportunities for one of the most traditionally isolated groups in
society. However, the offline inaccessible environment has, to a
certain degree, been replicated online and particularly in social
networking sites. Social media is becoming an increasingly
important part of our lives yet the impact on people with
disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while
social media and disability are often both observed through a focus
on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different
global perspectives are often overlooked. This collection explores
the opportunities and challenges social media represents for the
social inclusion of people with disabilities from a variety of
different global perspectives that include Africa, Arabia and Asia
along with European, American and Australasian perspectives and
experiences.
Scholars have long recognized the media's role in shaping and
reflecting the way we see the world, ourselves, and others. In
particular, they have understood that the media plays a vital part
in the social and cultural construction of disability. Moreover, as
new types of media proliferate, and become increasingly important
in our daily lives, addressing the sometimes difficult questions
surrounding the relationship between disability and the media is
more important than ever. In particular, what is the media's role
in the disablement of people with impairments and can it also act
as a powerful agent of change? And how are attitudes towards people
with disabilities constantly reinscribed through media such as
television, film, and the Internet? Now, this new four-volume
collection from Routledge's acclaimed Critical Concepts in Media
and Cultural Studies series enables users readily to access and
make sense of the essential texts of disability-and-media
scholarship. The collection is organized into four principal parts:
Disability and the Mass Media; Disability and Film; Disability and
Popular Culture; and Disability, the Internet, and New Media. Fully
indexed and with an introduction newly written by the editors,
Disability and the Media is an indispensable reference resource for
researchers and students.
As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture
reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the
capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central
theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies,
this book examines disability across a number of internationally
recognised texts and objects from popular culture, including film,
television, magazines and advertising campaigns, children's toys,
music videos, sport and online spaces, to attend to the social and
cultural construction of disability. While acknowledging that
disability features in popular culture in ways that reinforce
stereotypes and stigmatise, Disability and Popular Culture
celebrates and complicates the increasing visibility of disability
in popular culture, showing how popular culture can focus passion,
create community and express defiance in the context of disability
and social change. Covering a broad range of concerns that lie at
the intersection of disability and cultural studies, including
media representation, identity, the beauty myth, aesthetics,
ableism, new media and sport, this book will appeal to scholars and
students interested in the critical analysis of popular culture,
across disciplines such as disability studies, sociology and
cultural and media studies.
This book interrogates trends in training and employment of people
with disabilities in the media through an analysis of people with
disabilities' self-representation in media employment. Improving
disability representations in the media is vital to improving the
social position of people with disability, and including people
with lived experience of disability is integral to this process.
While the media industry has changed significantly as a result of
digital and participatory media, discriminatory attitudes around
fear and pity continue to impact whether people with disability
find work in the media. The book demonstrates no significant
changes in attitudes towards employing disabled media workers since
the 1990s when the last major research into this topic took place.
By focusing on the employment of people with disability in media
industries, Katie Ellis addresses a neglected area of media
diversity, appealing to researchers in media and cultural studies
as well as critical disability studies.
Social media is popularly seen as an important media for people
with disability in terms of communication, exchange and activism.
These sites potentially increase both employment and leisure
opportunities for one of the most traditionally isolated groups in
society. However, the offline inaccessible environment has, to a
certain degree, been replicated online and particularly in social
networking sites. Social media is becoming an increasingly
important part of our lives yet the impact on people with
disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while
social media and disability are often both observed through a focus
on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different
global perspectives are often overlooked. This collection explores
the opportunities and challenges social media represents for the
social inclusion of people with disabilities from a variety of
different global perspectives that include Africa, Arabia and Asia
along with European, American and Australasian perspectives and
experiences.
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 studies This book is available as an accessible
eBook. For more information, please visit
https://taylorandfrancis.com/about/corporate-responsibility/accessibility-at-taylor-francis/.
This book explores the inter-relationship of disability and trauma
in the Mad Max films (1979-2015). George Miller's long-running
series is replete with narratives and imagery of trauma, both
physical and emotional, along with major and minor characters who
are prominently disabled. The Mad Max movies foreground
representations of the body - in devastating injury and its lasting
effects - and in the broader social and historical contexts of
trauma, disability, gender and myth. Over the franchise's
four-decade span significant social and cultural change has
occurred globally. Many of the images of disability and trauma
central to Max's post-apocalyptic wasteland can be seen to
represent these societal shifts, incorporating both decline and
rejuvenation. These shifts include concerns with social, economic
and political disintegration under late capitalism, projections of
survival after nuclear war, and the impact of anthropogenic climate
change. Drawing on screen production processes, textual analysis
and reception studies this book interrogates the role of these
representations of disability, trauma, gender and myth to offer an
in-depth cultural analysis of the social critiques evident within
the fantasies of Mad Max.
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