Related Papers
“Stigma or empowerment? What do disabled people say about their representation in news and entertainment media?” (with Lingling Zhang, Towson University). Review of Disability Studies, Fall 2013 issue.
Beth Haller
“Consuming Image: How Mass Media Impact the Identity of People with Disabilities” (with Lingling Zhang, Towson University) in Communication Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 3, July/August 2013.
Beth Haller
Communication Quarterly
Consuming Image: How Mass Media Impact the Identity of People with Disabilities
2013 •
Beth Haller
Puzzled Representations: Popular Media and How Educators Come to Know Autism
2017 •
Vanessa Keener
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
The Place of News Media Analysis within Canadian Disability Studies
2012 •
Mihaela Dinca
Beth Haller
Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej
Changing the Narrative: Self-Representations of Disabled People in Social Media
Iwona Leonowicz-Bukała
The problem of inadequate media representation of disabled people has been changed in recent years by social media, owing to which disabled people can gain at least partial control over their image in public space and thus influence how non-disabled people see them. The article aims to discuss the results of the research on how disabled people use social media to create their image and how this image is different from the one present in traditional media. The study used a qualitative content analysis of the most popular Instagram profiles created by disabled people and addressing disability-related issues. The analysis shows that disabled Instagram users create their image effectively and actively, and the portrayal that emerges from their narratives differs significantly from the dominant ways of presenting disabled people in the mass media, i.e. as “victims” and “supercrips”.
Religion
Television Dramas, Disability, and Religious Knowledge: Considering Call the Midwife and Grey’s Anatomy as Religiously Significant Texts
2017 •
Courtney Wilder
Images and narratives of people with disabilities in popular culture shape the perceptions of people with and without disabilities. When these narratives raise philosophical and religious questions emerging from the lives of people with disabilities, and depict meaningful engagements between people with disabilities and religious practices, an underexamined body of knowledge emerges. The television series Call the Midwife and Grey’s Anatomy both have episodes that depict families responding to a disability diagnosis in a newborn infant, and each offers a potentially significant account of what it means to be a person born with a disability. While popular culture depictions of disability often reinscribe stigmatizing stereotypes, they can also disrupt those stereotypes and identify people with disabilities as authoritative, underrecognized sources of knowledge and experience, including religious understanding.
The Misrepresentation of the Disability Media Narrative
2020 •
Stephen Ippolito
The imagery and information presented in our media is a significant part of our everyday life. My article will explore how misrepresented disability narratives in media reinforce negative stereotypes and labeling in society against those with disabilities. The media's narrative shares information with the public, where people with disabilities (PWD) are depicted as broken and in need of a cure to be "normal." Also, PWD is excluded from the portrayal of the characters in the disability narrative. People who write most films and literature have never experienced having a disability. Their information comes from secondary sources and may include stereotypes. These narratives silence the voices of the disability community and cause both misrepresentation and under-representation. PWD represent the silent majority in the U.S. but have the lowest representation in the media of all minority classes. Therefore, false narratives and under-representation create a never-ending cy...
Framing Disability: A Content Analysis of Newspapers in Nigeria
2013 •
Olusola Ogundola
This study examined how the media in Nigeria framed people with disabilities and issues concerning them with a view to appreciating how news media frames impact society’s perception of people with disabilities. A textual analysis method was used to examine newspapers’ reports of disability within the period of a decade – 2001 to 2010. The sample was drawn from two major newspapers in Nigeria – Daily Trust based in Abuja, north-central Nigeria and Nigerian Tribune based in Ibadan, south-western Nigeria. This was done to ascertain whether cultural and religious differences between the north (predominantly Islam) and south (predominantly Christian) impact news reports on disability. Results of the analysis revealed a similarity between the media in both regions as they often employ stereotypically offensive language when reporting disability stories. Media frames that emphasize frailty, charity, disparity and derogatory labels leave room for stereotype, prejudice and stigma. This, no d...
