Overview
- Elevates disability media discussions beyond representation and access by considering employment and discriminatory attitudes in the media industry
- Investigates structural limitations that exclude people with disability from participation in the media workforce
- Provides workers' biographical stories and insights of success and failure
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book interrogates trends in training and employment of people with disabilities in the media through an analysis of people with disabilities’ self-representation in media employment. Improving disability representations in the media is vital to improving the social position of people with disability, and including people with lived experience of disability is integral to this process. While the media industry has changed significantly as a result of digital and participatory media, discriminatory attitudes around fear and pity continue to impact whether people with disability find work in the media. The book demonstrates no significant changes in attitudes towards employing disabled media workers since the 1990s when the last major research into this topic took place. By focusing on the employment of people with disability in media industries, Katie Ellis addresses a neglected area of media diversity, appealing to researchers in media and cultural studies as well as critical disability studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Katie Ellis is Senior Research Fellow and Convenor of the Critical Disability Studies Research Network in the Internet Studies Department at Curtin University, Australia. She has published widely in the area of disability, and digital and networked media, extending across both issues of representation and active possibilities for social inclusion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disability Media Work
Book Subtitle: Opportunities and Obstacles
Authors: Katie Ellis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52871-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60343-2Published: 09 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52871-1Published: 08 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 131
Topics: Media and Communication, Film/TV Industry, Disability Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Cultural Policy and Politics