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"This 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 Pokémon Go. The book asks how game developers can attempt to represent diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as examples. A significant collection for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of digital games, this volume will be of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game design and development, internet, visual, cultural, communication and media studies, as well as 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.

As COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, universities acted quickly to move their core business of teaching and research online. Classes shifted to platforms such as Zoom, Webex, Collaborate and Microsoft Teams and teachers and students alike were expected to adapt. And they did. While there has been much discussion of the unpaid labour involved in making this shift and the difficulties inherent in merging work, study and domestic life, there has been little acknowledgement or analysis of inherent notions of the preferred user in this rapid shift to technology. This paper draws on critical disability studies to offer a conceptual and theoretical analysis of a deeply problematic aspect of the rapid move to online education in response to COVID-19: the reliance of notions of the preferred user. The preferred user is simply the type of person technology creators or institutions envision using their product or service. Within critical disability studies the preferred user is often recognised as white, male and able bodied (see Ellcessor, 2017). In other words, the preferred user often excludes people with disability and other forms of disadvantage. Accordingly, in this paper we offer a preliminary overview, conceptualisation, and reflection on students with disability (and by extension other non-preferred users), their experiences and perspectives in relation to what might be described as disabling approaches to online learning, for example synchronous learning, video conferencing. Firstly, we introduce the concept of disability, as it has been redefined in the past two decades, as social, political, cultural, and rights-based – rather than some kind of biomedical condition or charity topic. We also give an overview of universal design for learning to reflect on the importance of adapting learning environments for all students. Secondly, we discuss the disconnect between students, teachers and support staff. From these cases, there are some significant challenges to key questions, such as how we understand students with ...

Introduction: Disability and media -- an emergent field / Gerard Goggin, Katie Ellis, Beth Haller, and Rosemary Curtis -- 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 -- 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 -- GimpGirl : insider perspectives on technology and the lives of disabled women / Jennifer Cole and Jason Nolan -- Digital media accessibility : an evolving vinfrastructure 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 -- 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.

Review of: Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste, Jonathan Gray (2021)
New York: New York University Press, 270 pp.,
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AbstractThis article describes research undertaken in 2018 in a therapeutic residential home for young women with multiple and complex needs in out‐of‐home care in England. Based on qualitative interviews with five young women, aged 16–18, and four professionals working with the home, the article analyses the under‐researched leaving care needs and experiences of this group of young women. The findings highlight the tensions between notions of childhood and expectations of adulthood surrounding this group of young people. These converge around reaching the age of 18 and foreground vulnerability on the one side, and responsibility on the other.

AbstractObjectivesProviders who work closely with ethnic minority people with dementia and their families are pivotal in helping them access services. However, few studies have examined how these providers actually do this work. Using the concept of "boundary crossers," this article investigates the strategies applied by these providers to facilitate access to dementia services for ethnic minority people with dementia and their families.MethodsBetween 2017 and 2020, in-depth video-recorded interviews were conducted with 27 health, aged care, and community service providers working with ethnic minority people living with dementia across Australia. Interviews were conducted in one of seven languages and/or in English, then translated and transcribed verbatim into English. The data were analyzed thematically.ResultsFamily and community stigma associated with dementia and extra-familial care were significant barriers to families engaging with services. To overcome these barriers, participants worked at the boundaries of culture and dementia, community and systems, strategically using English and other vernaculars, clinical and cultural terminology, building trust and rapport, and assisting with service navigation to improve access. Concurrently, they were cognizant of familial boundaries and were careful to provide services that were culturally appropriate without supplanting the families' role.DiscussionIn negotiating cultural, social, and professional boundaries, providers undertake multidimensional and complex work that involves education, advocacy, negotiation, navigation, creativity, and emotional engagement. This work is largely undervalued but offers a model of care that facilitates social and community development as well as service integration across health, aged care, and social services.