The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media

An authoritative and indispensable guide to disability and media, this thoughtfully curated collection features varied and provocative contributions from distinguished scholars globally, alongside next-generation research leaders.

Disability and media has emerged as a dynamic and exciting area of contemporary culture and social life. Media–– especially digital technology––play a vital role in disability transformations, with widespread implications for global societies and how we understand communications. This book addresses this development, from representation and audience through technologies, innovations and challenges of the field. Through the varied and global perspectives of leading researchers, writers, and practitioners, including many authors with lived experience of disability, it covers a wide range of traditional, emergent and future media forms and formats.

International in scope and orientation, The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media offers students and scholars alike a comprehensive survey of the intersections between disability studies and media studies

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Katie Ellis is Associate Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University (Australia). She has worked with people with disabilities in government, academia and the community. She has authored and edited 15 books and numerous articles on the topic, including two award-winning papers on digital access and social inclusion.

Gerard Goggin is Wee Kim Wee Chair in Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Since 2011, he has been Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. With Christopher Newell, he authored the highly influential Digital Disability (2003) and Disability in Australia (2005; winner of the Australian Human Rights Commission Arts Nonfiction Award). Other key books include Normality and Disability: Intersections Among Norms, Laws and Culture (2018; with Linda Steele and Jess Cadwallader), and Listening to Disability: Voices of Democracy (2020; with Cate Thill and Rosemary Kayess).

Beth Haller is the author of Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media (2010) and the editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (2015). She has been researching news and entertainment media images of disability since 1991. She is currently Professor of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland (USA), where she also teaches in the University’s Applied Adult Disability Studies minor. She is an adjunct disability studies professor at City University of New York and York University (Canada).

Rosemary Curtis is a researcher with over 40 years experience specialising in the screen industries. Following ten years in the library at the Australian Film, TV and Radio School, Rosemary managed the research unit at the Australian Film Commission and Screen Australia from 1990 to 2009. In 2000 Rosemary was awarded the Australian Communications Research Forum award for Outstanding Contribution to Research in an area of Communications.