Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and media, examining disability in the context of digital television access, representation and reception.
Associate Professor Katie Ellis is Senior Research Fellow in Internet Studies, convener of the Curtin University Critical Disability Research Network and Deputy Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. Her research explores the social and cultural dimensions of disability, television, and digital and networked media, extending across both issues of representation and active possibilities for social inclusion. She has authored and edited ten books and numerous articles on the topic, and is series editor of Routledge Research in Disability and Media Studies. Her most recent books include The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media with Gerard Goggin and Beth Haller, and Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies with Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Mike Kent and Rachel Robertson.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Part One Representation
Chapter 2: Screening stereotypes or cultural accessibility: stigma and the representation of disability on television
Chapter 3: Broadening definitions: A content analysis of disability on Australian television drama
Chapter 4: Culturally accessible online video: bringing television's shared-ness online
Chapter 5 Collective intelligence: Disability, Game of Thrones
Part 2 Access
Chapter 6: Digital diversity
Chapter 7: Audio description
Chapter 8: Captions
Chapter 9: Interpretive flexibility
Chapter 10: Conclusion