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The psychological and socio-economic implications of digital technologies call for scholarship that engages questions about the nature of human consciousness, the construction of the self and the ethics of technical development. In this article, I outline a framework for an approach called contemplative media studies. This approach incorporates several different scholarly threads, namely: via critical political-economic media scholarship, a focus on achieving social and economic justice through policy initiatives and structural reform ; via media and religious scholarship, an interest in the religious dimensions of digital culture and the role of media in shaping religious identity ; and via contemplative studies, an appreciation of the applicability of contemplative principles to research methods and theory. This framework allows us to examine the spiritual ideology that drives the construction of commercial digital platforms and to ask whether alternative platforms might better catalyze human development. Anchored in a critical commitment to socio-economic justice, contemplative media studies is aimed at articulating an ethically-responsive and economically-sustainable architecture of human flourishing.

Introduction to intersectional feminist media studies -- Feminist media critique -- Representing gender -- Transnational feminist media studies -- Feminist digital media studies -- Gendered media work -- Conclusion: the future of feminist media studies and action.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapters by Topic (Medium) -- Introduction -- 1. Kickstarting Community -- 2. After School Special Education -- 3. Throw Yo' Voice Out -- 4. How to Stare at Your Television -- 5. Prosthetic Heroes -- 6. "It's Not Just Sexism" -- 7. One of Us? -- 8. Disability, Global Popular Media, and Injustice in the Trial of Oscar Pistorius -- 9. Autism in Translation -- 10. How to Get through the Day with Pain and Sadness -- 11. Any Day Now -- 12. The Price of the Popular Media Is Paid by the Effluent Citizen -- 13. Disability and Biomediation -- 14. "A Blessed Boon" -- 15. Afterword I -- 16. Afterword II -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index

Introduction: toward a disability media studies / Elizabeth Ellcessor, Mack Hagood, and Bill Kirkpatrick -- Access and media production -- Kickstarting community : disability, access, and participation in my gimpy life / Elizabeth Ellcessor -- After school special education : sex, tolerance, and rehabilitative television / Julie Passanante Elman -- Disability and race -- Throw yo' voice out : disability as a desirable practice in hip-hop vocal performance / Alex S. Porco -- How to stare at your television : the ethics of consuming race and disability on / Freakshow, Lori Kido Lopez -- Disability and gender -- Prosthetic heroes : curing disabled veterans in Iron man 3 and beyond / Ellen Samuels -- "It's not just sexism" : feminization and (ab)normalization in the commercialization of anxiety disorders / D. Travers Scott and Meagan Bates -- Disability and celebrity culture -- One of us? : disability drag and the Gaga enfreakment of fandom / Krystal Cleary -- Disability, global popular media, and injustice in the trial of Oscar Pistorius / Katie Ellis and Gerard Goggin -- Autism in translation : temple grandin as the autistic subject / Tasha Oren -- Disability and temporality -- How to get through the day with pain and sadness : temporality and disability in graphic novels / Shoshana Magnet and Amanda Watson -- Any day now : queerness, disability, and the trouble with homonormativity / Robert McRuer -- Disability and technology -- The price of the popular media is paid by the effluent citizen / Toby Miller -- Disability and biomediation : tinnitus as phantom disability / Mack Hagood -- "A blessed boon" : radio, disability, governmentality, and the discourse of the "shut-in," 1920-1930 / Bill Kirkpatrick -- Afterwords -- Afterword I: Disability in disability media studies / Rachel Adams -- Afterword II: Dismediation: three proposals, six tactics / Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne -- Bibliography -- Contributors.

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The designs of media -- From broadsheet to broadband: the news -- The pitch: advertising -- Music in every room: radio and recorded music -- Watching tv -- Movies and film -- Digital spaces