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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Mediating Emergency, Maintaining Normalcy -- 1. Alarm! The Intensified Affect of Emergency -- 2. Maps and the Affective Surveillance of "Safety -- 3. Alert: Interruptions, Instructions, and Authority -- 4. What Is Your Emergency? Reports and Responses -- 5. Help! Social Media Testimony and Emergency Bids -- Conclusion: From Emergency to Engagement -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

"While digital media can offer many opportunities for civic and cultural participation, this technology is not equally easy for everyone to use. Hardware, software, and cultural expectations combine to make some technologies an easier fit for some bodies than for others. A YouTube video without closed captions or a social network site that is incompatible with a screen reader can restrict the access of users who are hard of hearing or visually impaired. Often, people with disabilities require accommodation, assistive technologies, or other forms of aid to make digital media accessible--usable--for them. Restricted Access investigates digital media accessibility--the processes by which media is made usable by people with particular needs--and argues for the necessity of conceptualizing access in a way that will enable greater participation in all forms of mediated culture. Drawing on disability and cultural studies, Elizabeth Ellcessor uses an interrogatory framework based around issues of regulation, use, content, form, and experience to examine contemporary digital media. Through interviews with policy makers and accessibility professionals, popular culture and archival materials, and an ethnographic study of internet use by people with disabilities, Ellcessor reveals the assumptions that undergird contemporary technologies and participatory cultures. Restricted Access makes the crucial point that if digital media open up opportunities for individuals to create and participate, but that technology only facilitates the participation of those who are already privileged, then its progressive potential remains unrealized. Engagingly written with powerful examples, Ellcessor demonstrates the importance of alternate uses, marginalized voices, and invisible innovations in the context of disability identities to push us to rethink digital media accessibility."--Provided by publisher

Celebrity activism, online celebrity, and online activism are all growing areas of research, but have received relatively little integration. This article argues that connected celebrity activism deploys social media to forge a variety of connections, enabling activist values to pervade a celebrity persona, reinforcing perceptions of authenticity and recirculating those values to disparate audiences. In the case of Deaf American actor Marlee Matlin, media reform activism serves as a unifying feature, expressed via technologically-facilitated connections between her acting, activist, and online activities, creating a cohesive star text that is seemingly authentic in respect to both Deaf and celebrity identities without being stereotypical. Such centrality and unification via connected celebrity activism stands in contrast to more traditional celebrity activism, and draws upon the specific dynamics of digital media, online activism, and contemporary celebrity culture.

This article examines academic and popular examples of a "cyborg hoax"—an articulation of gender, dis/ability, and technology that is deceptive, reinforces an ideology of ability, and prevents users and scholars alike from seeing the value of disability for digital media cultures. The article uses cyborg theory, cyberculture studies, literature on online deception, and critical disability studies to argue that cyborg hoaxes are a dominant but stereotypical representation. This is contrasted with ethnographic data about disabled peoples' online experiences, which suggest that alternative linkages of disability, gender, and technology can provide valuable insights into the critical study of online cultures.

Review of Nancy Baym. Personal connections in the digital age. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2010. Paperback, $19.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0745643328.

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

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