TY - BOOK ID - 14473660 TI - Disability media work : opportunities and obstacles PY - 2016 SN - 1137528710 1137603437 134957211X PB - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, DB - UniCat KW - Culture KW - Communication. KW - Social structure. KW - Social inequality. KW - Cultural and Media Studies. KW - Media and Communication. KW - Film/TV Industry. KW - Disability Studies. KW - Social Structure, Social Inequality. KW - Cultural Policy and Politics. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Sociology of disability. KW - People with disabilities in mass media. KW - Handicapped in mass media KW - Disabilities KW - Sociology of disablement KW - Sociology of impairment KW - Sociological aspects KW - People with disabilities KW - Mass media KW - Motion pictures. KW - People with disabilities. KW - Cultural policy. KW - Cripples KW - Disabled KW - Disabled people KW - Disabled persons KW - Handicapped KW - Handicapped people KW - Individuals with disabilities KW - People with physical disabilities KW - Persons with disabilities KW - Physically challenged people KW - Physically disabled people KW - Physically handicapped KW - Persons KW - Sociology of disability KW - Intellectual life KW - State encouragement of science, literature, and art KW - Popular culture KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Performing arts KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - Government policy KW - History and criticism KW - Organization, Social KW - Social organization KW - Anthropology KW - Social institutions KW - Egalitarianism KW - Inequality KW - Social equality KW - Social inequality KW - Political science KW - Democracy KW - Liberty KW - Equality. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14473660 AB - 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. 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. ER -