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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- 7.1 Typology of Characters -- 8.1 Analysed Articles From 31 January 2013 To 31 January 2018 -- 9.1 Personal Use of Media at Least Once A Week (Data In %) -- 9.2 Media Equipment of Persons With Disabilities Depending on Living Conditions (In %) -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 'The Stuff of Nightmares': Representations of Disability on the Online Bulletin Board Reddit -- 3 Madeline Stuart as Disability Advocate and Brand: Exploring the Affective Economies of Social Media -- 4 Losing Someone Like Us: Memetic Logics and Coping with Brain Tumours on Social Media -- 5 Inscribing Comedy in the Breast Cancer Narrative. Disease, Autoethnography and Black Humour -- 6 Knowing North Korea through Photographs of Abled/ Disabled Bodies in Western News -- 7 Disabled Heroines: Representations of Female Disability in Japanese Television Dramas -- 8 The Education of Children with Disabilities in South African Online News Reports -- 9 Mass Media Use by Individuals with Disabilities in Germany Compared to the United Kingdom -- Index.

An approachable but critical introduction to the complex relationship between disability and the media, bringing together prominent theoretical work and research on disability internationally, with analysis and examples of a range of contemporary media issues in news, the press, broadcasting and new media.

"Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions. It contains thirteen newly written chapters drawing on representations of disability in popular culture from film, television and print media in both the global north and the global south, including the USA, Canada, India and Kenya. Although disability is often framed using a limited range of stereotypical tropes such as victims, supercrips or suffering patients, this book shows how disability and neurodiversity are making their way into more mainstream media productions and publications with movies, television shows and books featuring prominent and even lead characters with disabilities or neurodiversity. Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, cultural studies, film studies, gender studies and sociology more broadly"--

1. Introduction : producerly disability -- 2. Our moment in time : the transitory and concrete value of disability toys -- 3. Contemporary beauty-ism -- 4. Spaces of cultural mediation : the science fiction cinema of the third stage of disability -- 5. Among the leading characters on television -- 6. Enfreaking popular music : making us think by making us feel -- 7. Controlling the body : sport, disability and the construction of ability -- 8. Disability and spreadable media : access, representation and inspiration porn -- 9. Conclusion : focusing passion, creating community, expressing defiance.

The paper differentiates three dimensions of access for eInclusion instruments: Firstly, digital media are understood as environments that offer multiple channels for interaction between persons with disabilities and their environments. This dimension is challenged by barriers that hinder people to use digital media. Peer support could be understood as a second dimension: Social media can empower people to act as social innovators and help people with disabilities. Barriers are identified in the effort that has to be done or in unsuitable ICT applications. On a third dimension, the advantages of "space" that offers ICT access, support for individual needs and competences, facilitated by specialized staff. The high costs, missing political backing and need for competences could be understood as main barriers here. The paper suggests to capitalize on social innovation approaches to design new support instruments for eInclusion.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Folded Time and the Presence of Disability -- 1. Unmothering Disability -- 2. Cure by Proxy -- 3. Violence as a Way of Loving -- 4. Uninhabiting Family -- 5. Curing Virginity -- Conclusion: How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"Embodied Archive focuses on perceptions of disability and racial difference in Mexico's early post-revolutionary period, from the 1920s to the 1940s. In this period, Mexican state-sponsored institutions charged with the education and health of the population sought to strengthen and improve the future of the nation, and to forge a more racially homogeneous sense of collective identity and history. Influenced by regional and global movements in eugenics and hygiene, Mexican educators, writers, physicians, and statesmen argued for the widespread physical and cognitive testing and categorization of schoolchildren, so as to produce an accurate and complete picture of "the Mexican child," and to carefully monitor and control forms of unwanted difference, including disability and racialized characteristics. Differences were not generally marked for eradication-as would be the case in eugenics movements in the US, Canada, and parts of Europe-but instead represented possible influences from a historically distant or immediate reproductive past, or served as warnings of potential danger haunting individual or collective futures. Weaving between the historical context of Mexico's post-revolutionary period and our present-day world, Embodied Archive approaches literary and archival documents that include anti-alcohol and hygiene campaigns; projects in school architecture and psychopedagogy; biotypological studies of urban schoolchildren and indigenous populations; and literary approaches to futuristic utopias or violent pasts. It focuses in particular on the way disability is represented indirectly through factors that may have caused it in the past or may cause it in the future, or through perceptions and measurements that cannot fully capture it. In engaging with these narratives, the book proposes an archival encounter, a witnessing of past injustices and their implications for the disability of our present and future"--

"This series explores disability in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. This book explores disability in the media and how people with disabilities are represented. Engaging inquiry-based sidebars encourage students to LOOK, THINK, MAKE A GUESS, ASK QUESTIONS, and CREATE. Books are authored by writers with disabilities and the series has been developed in partnership with Easterseals who is leading the way to full equity, inclusion, and access through life-changing disability and community services. Books include table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, and sidebars"-- Provided by publisher.

The Building Blocks of Blindness: Hi, I'm Elsa -- We Need to Talk about Helen: Breaking Gibson's Mythology -- Language Acquisition Through the Sound Barrier and Other Deafblind Mysteries -- My Body and Other Histories -- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Identify Ableism: A Lesson in Radiation Poisoning -- Your Vision of Blindness is Impaired: The Monolith of Blindness in Media -- How I Learned to Drive, Play With Swords, And Other Things You Shouldn't Do At Home -- Yes, Virginia, Even Blind Men Can Be Assholes: The Intersection of Disability and Gender -- The Call is Coming from Inside the House: Surviving Ableist Violence Through the Lens of Horror -- Cripping My Dance Card: Required Reading for People Who Want to Date Me (But my Relatives Should Close the Book) -- Coming Out of the Closet: But Only If It's ADA Compliant -- There Are No Blind Moms on TV: Disability & Parenthood Stigma -- I Am Not a Teaching Tool: Medicalizing the Disabled Body -- Welcome to the Cyberpunk Future, It's In My Ears: Disability and Science Fiction -- We Have Always Thrived in the Castle: Defying Ableism to Become Yourself -- Cane in One Hand, Protest Sign in the Other: A View of Police Brutality and Disability -- Hindsight is 20/20, Except if You're Me and then it's [REDACTED].

The matter of subjectivity. Returning the social to the social model / Tobin Siebers -- Disability ecology and the rematerialization of literary disability studies / Joshua Kupetz -- Unique mattering: a new materialist approach to William Gibson's Pattern recognition / Olga Tarapata -- The matter of meaning. Hannah Weiner's transversal poetics: collaboration, disability, and clairvoyance / Patrick Durgin -- Dis-affection: disability effects and disabled moves at the movies / Angela M. Smith -- The matter of mortality. Spider-man's designer genes: hypercapacity and transhumanism in a DIY world / Samuel Yates -- An arm up or a leg down? grounding the prosthesis and other instabilities / Chris Ewart -- Breeding aliens, breeding AIDS: male pregnancy, disability, and viral materialism in "Bloodchild" / Matt Franks -- Why Lennie can teach us new tricks: reading for idiocy, caninity, and tropological confusion in Of mice and men / David Oswald -- The matter of memory. Informal economies in Mexico City transit: the matter of disappearance / Susan Antebi -- Posthumanist T4 memory / David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder.

While recognizing the difficulties of such an endeavor, an examination fo the politics of attendant care for the physically handicapped calls for an alliance between union activists & those who organize personal assistance services & consumers as a way to improve care for people with disabilities. A historical review of the disabilities rights movement is provided before exploring how the social model of disablement & the independent living movement have deeply influenced the demands for attendant care services; attention is given to the politics surrounding the thus far not enacted Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Support Act. Problems hampering coalition building between disability rights activists as well as for advocates for the rights of attendants are outlined. D. Edelman