Consuming Image: How Mass Media Impact the Identity of People with Disabilities

Zhang, Lingling; Haller, Beth

doi:10.1080/01463373.2013.776988

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“…Research examining news media framing of people with disabilities has long revealed problematic media representations (Zhang & Haller, 2013), such as the use of images and words that are stereotypical (Haller, 2000;Haller, 2010;O'Malley, 2009). Zhang and Haller (2013) found that media portrayals such as the victim frame negatively impact the perceived self-identity of people with disabilities.…”

Section: Framing Of People With Disabilitiesmentioning

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Journalism and Mass Communication Textbook Representations of Verbal Media Skills: Implications for Students with Speech Disabilities

Powers¹,

Haller²

2017

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This study examines representation of disabilities by conducting a qualitative content analysis of how 41 journalism/mass communication textbooks frame the ideal standards of verbal communication for media professionals. Textbooks are integral to students' understanding of professional norms and may influence career decisions. Results show that textbooks rarely address the topic of speech disabilities, describing them as "roadblocks to success." Instead, authors often address best practices in broadcast voicing and the value of projecting confidence in interviews and press conferences. What are the explicit and implicit messages for students with speech disabilities such as stuttering? We argue that such framing is a critical media literacy issue because it addresses media diversity and access.

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Section: Framing Of People With Disabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Zhang and Haller (2013) found that media portrayals such as the victim frame negatively impact the perceived self-identity of people with disabilities.…”

Section: Framing Of People With Disabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Journalism and Mass Communication Textbook Representations of Verbal Media Skills: Implications for Students with Speech Disabilities

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Haller²

2017

JMLE

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“…The notion that images of and narratives about disability can influence people's thinking is widely accepted (Moody 2008;Harnett 2000;Wohl 2017;Zhang and Haller 2013;Black and Pretes 2007;Van Kraayenoord 2011), but that influence is interpreted in a variety of ways.…”

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“…Among the most persistent is the association of disability with malevolence. Deformity of body symbolizes 1 Zhang and Haller (2013) argue, in an article discussed below, that stories about disability in news media not only provide frameworks for able-bodied people in their understanding of disability, but shape the self-understanding of people with disabilities as well. 2 See one very recent example of the first trope, the character Dr. Maru (also known as Dr.…”

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Television Dramas, Disability, and Religious Knowledge: Considering Call the Midwife and Grey’s Anatomy as Religiously Significant Texts

Wilder¹

2017

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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.

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“…When media portrays people with disabilities as "sickly and helpless victims", it implies that a "disabled person's life is inferior to […] an able-bodied person's life" (Zhang & Haller, 2013). In addition, physical and mental disabilities have been negatively affected by portrayals of insane or murderous characters in media.…”

Section: How We Learn: the Problem With Stereotypesmentioning

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Portrayals of mental illness and physical disability in 21st century children's animation.

Miller

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The objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of mental and physical disability in children's animation, and to understand image of mental or physical disability the animation portrayed. Three animated movies and one 61 episode animated series were coded for verbal references to mental illness and physical disability. Visual images and thematic elements portraying disability were also examined. All of the animations contained verbal as well as visual references to disability. Verbal references appeared with an average of 13.2 references per hour of animation. The connotations of these references often went against negative stereotypes of disability. These findings have implications for the viewers of these animations in terms of possible learned attitudes and stereotypes toward disability that these references may facilitate over time.

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Consuming Image: How Mass Media Impact the Identity of People with Disabilities

Cited by 101 publications

References 26 publications

Journalism and Mass Communication Textbook Representations of Verbal Media Skills: Implications for Students with Speech Disabilities

Journalism and Mass Communication Textbook Representations of Verbal Media Skills: Implications for Students with Speech Disabilities

Television Dramas, Disability, and Religious Knowledge: Considering Call the Midwife and Grey’s Anatomy as Religiously Significant Texts

Portrayals of mental illness and physical disability in 21st century children's animation.

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