Volume I: Disability Studies Meets Media Studies
Critical Analysis of Print Media and Radio, from Representation to
Reception
Representation: Print Media, Radio and Advertising
1. M. Johnson and S. Elkins, Reporting on Disability: Approaches and Issue. Section II: Trends and Issues, (LY: Advocado Press, 1989), pp.40-57.
2. C. Barnes, ‘Disabling Imagery and the Media: An Exploration of the Principles for Media Representations of Disabled People’, 1992, http://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/files/library/Barnes-disabling-imagery.pdf, pp.1-29
3. David Hevey, ‘The Creatures Time Forgot: Into the Grotto of Charity Advertising’, in The Creatures Time Forgot, (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 18-29.
4. J. Clogston, ‘Disability Coverage in American Newspapers’, in Jack A. Nelson (ed.), The Disabled, the Media, and the Information Age, (CN: Greenwood Press, 1994), pp. 45-57.
5. B. Haller, ‘If They Limp, They Lead? News Representations and the Hierarchy of Disability Images’, in Dawn Braithwaite and T. Thompson (eds.), Handbook of Communication and People with Disabilities, (NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000), pp. 225-237.
6. D. Mitchell and S. Snyder, ‘Chapter 1: Representation and its Discontents: The Uneasy Home of Disability in Literature and Film’, in Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse, (MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2000), pp. 15-46.
7. Brian J. Sweeney and Sheila Riddell, ‘Mainstreaming Disability on Radio 4’, in Sheila Riddell and Nick Watson (eds.), Disability, Culture and Identity, (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 143-160.
8. D. Parashar and N. Devanathan, ‘Still Not in Vogue: The Portrayal of Disability in Magazine Advertising’, Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counselling, 37, 1, 2006, pp.13-20.
9. B. Haller and S. Ralph, ‘Are Disability Images in Advertising Becoming Bold And Daring? An Analysis of Prominent Themes in US and UK Campaigns’, Disability Studies Quarterly, 26, 3, 2006, http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/716/893
10. M. P. O’Malley, ‘Voices of Disability on the Radio’, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 43, S1, 2008, pp.18-29.
11. P. Wilkinson and P. McGill, ‘Representation of People with Intellectual Disabilities in a British Newspaper in 1983 and 2001’, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 22, 1, 2009, pp.65-76.
12. S. Jones and V. Harwood, ‘Representations of Autism in Australian Print Media’, Disability and Society, 24, 1, 2009, pp.5-18.
13. E. Briant, N. Watson and G. Philo, ‘Reporting Disability in the Age of Austerity: The Changing Face of Media Representation of Disability and Disabled People in the United Kingdom and the Creation of New "Folk Devils"’, Disability & Society, 28, 6, 2013, pp. 874-889.
Reception and Audiences
14. G. Philo, J. Secker, S. Platt, L. Henderson, G. McLaughlin and J. Burnside, ‘The Impact of the Mass Media on Public Images of Mental Illness: Media Content and Audience Belief’, Health Education Journal, 53, 1994, pp.271-81.
15. K. Ross, ’All Ears: Radio, Reception and Discourses of Disability’, Media, Culture & Society, 23, 4, 2001, pp.419-473.
16. Z. S. Panol and M. McBride, ‘Disability Images in Print Advertising: Exploring Attitudinal Impact Issues’, Disability Studies Quarterly, 21, 2, 2001, http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/279/307
17. T. Titchkosky, ‘Disability in the News: A Reconsideration of Reading’, Disability & Society, 20, 6, 2005, pp.655-668.
18. L. Zhang and B. Haller, ‘Consuming Image: How Mass Media Impact the Identity of People with Disabilities’, Communication Quarterly, 61, 3, 2013, pp.319-334.
19. S. B. Kamenetsky et al., ‘Eliciting Help Without Pity: The Effect of Changing Media Images on Perceptions of Disability’, Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 2015, pp.1-21.
Behind the Scenes
20. Joseph D. Keefer and Michael R. Smith, ‘Newspaper Employment of Journalists with Disabilities’, Newspaper Research Journal, 13 & 14, 4 & 1, 1992, pp.40-49.
21. Charles A. Riley II, ‘Chapter Seven: We: The Short Happy Life of an Independent Magazine’, in Disability and the Media, (NH: University Press of New England, 2005), pp. 157-195.
22. C. Jones, ‘Why This Story Over a Hundred Others of the Day? Five Journalists’ Backstories About Writing Disability in Toronto’, Disability & Society, 29, 8, 2014, pp.1206-1220.
23. M. Sgroi, ‘"I Should At Least Be Given a Chance to Try": The Experience of Media Workers with Disabilities in the United States during Postsecondary Education and Early Career’, Disability & Society, 31, 1, 2016, pp.64-83.
Volume II: Film and Television
Identity, Representation and Access
Screen: Film and Television
24. P. Longmore, ‘Screening Stereotypes: Images of Disabled People in Television and Motion Pictures’, in A. Gartner and T. Joe (eds.), Images of the Disabled, Disabling Images, (NY: Praeger, 1987), pp. 65-78.
25. O. Farnall and K. Smith, ‘Reactions to People with Disabilities: Personal Contact Versus Viewing of Specific Media Portrayals’, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 76, 4, 1999, pp.659-672.
26. J. Valentine, ‘Disabled Discourse: Hearing Accounts of Deafness Constructed Through Japanese Television and Film’, Disability & Society, 16, 5, 2001, pp.707-721.
27. R. Mallett, ‘Choosing "Stereotypes": Debating the Efficacy of (British) Disability-Criticism’, Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 9, 1, 2009, pp.4-11.
Film
28. M. Norden, ‘Chapter 1: Emergence of An Impoverished Image’, in The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies, (NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994), pp. 14-48.
29. T. Shakespeare, ‘Art and Lies? Representations of Disability on Film’, in M. Corker and S. French (eds.), Disability Discourse, (UK: Open University Press, 1999), pp. 164-172.
30. Sallie Baxendale, ‘Epilepsy at the Movies: Possession to Presidential Assassination’, The Lancet Neurology, 2, 12, 2003, pp.764-70.
31. D. S. Knight, ’Madness and Disability in Contemporary Chinese Film’, The Journal of Medical Humanities, 27, 2, 2006, pp.93-103.
32. S. Snyder and D. Mitchell, ‘Body Genres: An Anatomy of Disability in Film’, in S. Chivers and N. Markotić (eds.), The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film, (OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2010), pp. 179-206.
33. M. Davidson, ‘Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body’, in S. Chivers and N. Markotić (eds.), The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film, (OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2010), pp. 43-66.
Television
34. G. Cumberbatch and R. Negrine, ‘Part II: The Portrayal of People with Disability on Television: A Commentary’, in Images of Disability on Television, (London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 87-121.
35. K. Ross, ‘But Where’s Me In It? Disability, Broadcasting and the Audience’, Media, Culture & Society, 19, 4, 1997, pp.669-677.
36. K. LeBesco, ‘Disability, Gender and Difference on The Sopranos’, Women‘s Studies in Communication, 29, 1, 2006, pp.39-59.
37. A. Wilde, ‘Are You Sitting Comfortably? Soap Operas, Disability and Audience’, Dis: cover!, 2, 2004, http://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/files/library/wilde-Alison-Wilde-Dis-cover-2-Adapted-Paper.pdf, pp. 1-37
38. P. Longmore, ‘The Cultural Framing of Disability: Telethons as a Case Study’, PMLA, 120, 2, 2005, pp.502-08.
39. R. McRuer, ‘Chapter 5: Crip Eye For the Normate Guy: Queer Theory, Bob Flannagan and the Disciplining of Disability Studies’, in Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, (NY / London: New York University Press, 2006), pp. 171-198.
40. R. Belt, ‘"And Then Comes Life": The Intersection of Race, Poverty, and Disability in HBO’s The Wire’, Rutgers Race and the Law Review, 13, 2, 2012, pp.1-28.
41. S. Walters, ‘Cool Aspie Humor: Cognitive Difference and Kenneth Burke’s Comic Corrective in The Big Bang Theory and Community’, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 7, 3, 2013, pp.271-288.
42. B. J. Bond, ‘Physical Disability on Children’s Television Programming: A Content Analysis’, Early Educational Development, 24, 3, 2013, pp.408-418.
Digital Media Perspectives
43. G. Goggin and C. Newell, ‘Chapter 5: Getting the Picture on Disability: Digital Broadcasting Futures’, in Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media, (MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2003), pp. 89-108.
44. M. Quinlan and B. Bates, ‘Dances and Discourses of (Dis)Ability: Heather Mills’s Embodiment of Disability on Dancing with the Stars’, Text and Performance Quarterly, 28, 1-2, 2008, pp.64-80.
45. E. Ellcessor, ‘Captions On, Off, on TV, Online: Accessibility and Search Engine Optimization in Online Closed Captioning’, Television & New Media, 13, 4, 2012, pp.329-352.
46. F. Utray et al., ‘Monitoring Accessibility Services in Digital Television’, International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, 2012, pp.1-9.
47. K. Ellis, ‘Netflix Closed Captions Offer an Accessible Model for the Streaming Video Industry, But What about Audio Description?’, Communication, Politics & Culture, 47, 3, 2015, https://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=113665255090751;res=IELHSS, pp. 1-20
Volume III: Culture
Important Theory
48. R. Bogdan and D. Biklen, ‘Handicapism’, Social Policy, 7, 1977, pp.14-19.
49. E. Goffman, ‘‘Stigma and Social Identity’ ,in Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, (NY: J. Aronson, 1974), pp. 1-40.
50. R. Garland-Thomson, ‘Chapter 1: Introduction’, in Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body, (NY: New York University Press, 1996), pp. 1-19.
51. D. Reeve, ‘Cyborgs, Cripples and iCrip: Reflections on the Contribution of Haraway to Disability Studies’, in D. Goodley, B. Hughes and L. Davis (eds.), Disability and Social Theory: New Developments and Directions, (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 91-111.
52. F. Kumari Campbell, ‘Chapter 1: The Project of Ableism’, in Contours of Ableism: The Production of Disability and Abledness, (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 3-15.
Social Model to Cultural Model
53. M. Oliver, ‘Chapter 5: The Structuring of Disabled Identities’, in The Politics of Disablement, (UK: Macmillan Education, 1990), pp.60-77.
54. T. Shakespeare, ‘Cultural Representation of Disabled People: Dustbins for Disavowal?’, Disability & Society, 9, 3, 1994, pp.283-299.
55. S. Snyder and D. Mitchell, ‘Chapter 1: Cultural Locations of Disability’, in Cultural Locations of Disability, (IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. 3-36.
56. T. Siebers, ‘Chapter 3: What Can Disability Studies Learn From the Culture Wars?’, in Disability Aesthetics, (MI: University of Michigan Press, 2010), pp. 57-82.
57. David Bolt, ‘Social Encounters, Cultural Representation, and Critical Avoidance’, in N. Watson, A. Roulstone and C. Thomas (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies, (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 287-297.
Popular Culture Case Studies
58. C. J. Kokaska, ‘Disabled Superheroes in Comic Books’, Rehabilitation Literature, 45, 9/10, 1984, pp.286-88.
59. R. Garland-Thomson, ‘The Politics of Staring: Visual Rhetorics of Disability in Popular Photography’, in S. Snyder, B. J. Brueggmann and R. Garland-Thomson (eds.), Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, (NY: The Modern Language Association of America, 2002), pp. 56-85.
60. R. Bogdan, ‘Chapter 4: Exotic and Aggrandized: Modes of Presenting Freaks’, in Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit, (IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990), pp. 94-118.
61. G. McKay, ‘Chapter 3: Corpus Crippus: Performing Disability in Pop and Rock’, in Shakin’ All Over: Popular Music and Disability, (MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013), pp. 87-119.
62. P. Kuppers, ‘Chapter 1: Practices of Reading Difference’, in Disability and Contemporary Performance, Bodies on Edge, (NY: Routledge, 2013), pp. 12-30.
63. K. Ellis, ‘Chapter 2: Our Moment in Time: The Transitory and Concrete Value of Disability Toys’, in Disability and Popular Culture: Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance, (UK: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 15-35.
64. J. Dolmage and D. Jacobs, ‘Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium’, in C. Foss, J. Gray and Z. Whalan (eds.), Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives, (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 14-28.
65. D. Peers, ‘Disempowering Paralympic Histories: Absent Athletes and Disabling Discourses’, Disability & Society, 24, 5, 2009, pp.653-665.
66. N. Carter and J. Williams, ‘"A Genuinely Emotional Week": Learning Disability, Sport and Television – Notes on the Special Olympics GB National Summer Games 2009’, Media, Culture & Society, 34, 2, 2012, pp.211-227.
Volume IV: New Technology, New Media
Early Criticism
67. V. Finkelstein, ‘Attitudes and Disabled People: Issues For Discussion’, Disability Archive UK, 1980, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/finkelstein/attitudes.pdf, 1-28
68. A. Roulstone, ‘Enabling Technology: Disabled People, Work, and New Technology’, in Enabling Technology: The Benefits of New Technology, (UK: Open University Press, 1998), pp. 82-87.
69. G. Goggin and C. Newell, ‘The Business of Digital Disability’, The Information Society, 23, 3, 2007, pp.159-168.
Web 2.0: Representation, Access and Disabling Environments
70. G. Goggin, ’Chapter 5: Cellular Disability: Consumption, Design and Access’, in Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life, (NY / London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 89-106.
71. E. Thoreau, ‘Ouch!: An Examination of the Self-Representation of Disabled People on the Internet’, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11, 2, 2006, pp.442-468, http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue12/thoreau.html
72. G. Annable et al., ‘Accessibility, Disability, and Inclusion in Information Technologies: Introduction’, The Information Society, 23, 3, 2007, pp.145-147.
73. A. Foley and B. A. Ferri, ‘Technology for People, Not Disabilities: Ensuring Access and Inclusion’, Journal of Research in Special Education Needs, 12, 4, 2012, pp.192-200.
74. B. Wentz et al., ‘Retrofitting Accessibility: The Legal Inequality of After-the-Fact Online Access for Persons with Disabilities in the United States’, First Monday, 16, 11, 2013, http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3666/3077.
75. Sarah Lewthwaite, ‘Web Accessibility Standards and Disability: Developing Critical Perspectives on Accessibility’, Disability and Rehabilitation, 36, 16, 2014, pp.1375-1383, DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2014.938178
76. K. Ellis and M. Kent, ‘Introduction: The Great Potential of Digital Technology’, in Disability and New Media, (NY: Routledge, 2011), pp. 1-10.
77. B. Haller, ‘Chapter 1: The Changing Landscape of Disability News: Blogging and Social Media Lead to More Diverse Sources of Information’, in Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media, (KY: Advocado Press, 2010), pp. 1-24.
78. M. Kent, ‘Disability and eLearning: Opportunities and Barriers’, Disability Studies Quarterly, 35, 1, 2015, http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3815/3830
New Screen Identity
79. D. Power et al., ‘German Deaf People Using Text Communication: Short Message Service, TTY, Relay Services, Fax, and E-mail’, American Anals of the Deaf, 152, 3, 2007, pp.291-301.
80. S. Hollier, ‘Sociability: Social Media for People with a Disability’, 2012, http://mediaaccess.org.au/online-media/social-media, pp. 1-36
81. J. Cole et al., ‘GimpGirl Grows Up: Women with Disabilities Rethinking, Redefining, and Reclaiming Community’, New Media & Society, 13, 7, 2011, pp.1161-1179.
82. K. Best and S. Butler, ‘Disability and Communication: A Consideration of Cross-Disability Communication and Technology’, Disability Studies Quarterly, 2012, http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3290/3179.
83. F. Ginsburg, ‘Disability in the Digital Age’, in H. Horst and D. Miller (eds.), Digital Anthropology, (UK: Berg, 2012), pp. 101-126.
84. E. Ellcessor, ‘Chapter 2: You Already Know How to Use It: Technology, Disability and Participation’, in Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation, (New York: NYU Press, 2012), pp. 61-88.
85. Charlotte Pearson & Filippo Trevisan, ‘Disability Activism in the New Media Ecology: Campaigning Strategies in the Digital Era’, Disability & Society, 30, 6, 2015, pp.924-940, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1051516
86 M. Alper, ‘Augmentative, Alternative, and Assistive: Reimagining the History of Mobile Computing and Disability’, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 37, 1, 2015, pp.93-96.
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