Disability Media Work

Ellis, Katie; Merchant, Melissa

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-52871-1

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“…Access to employment is a particularly pronounced issue facing people with disabilities despite the passing of legislation and policy focused on disability inclusion in the workplace (Barnes and Mercer, 2005). This is particularly the case in a visual medium such as television where a 'preferred' body politic holds significant capital, and where disabled people have been historically underrepresented (Ellis, 2016); in the UK, only 3% of employees across the five main broadcaster networks are disabled compared to 18% of the UK population (Ofcom, 2017a). Under the 2003 Communications Act, the communications regulator in the UK, Ofcom, is required to promote equality between men and women, people of different racial groups, and importantly for this paper, for disabled people.…”

Section: The Mediation Of Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-presenting the Paralympics: (contested) philosophies, production practices and the hypervisibility of disability

Pullen

Jackson

Silk

et al. 2018

Media, Culture & Society

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Studies that have engaged parasport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens, have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games as the source of cultural critique. We know far less about the decisions taken inside Paralympic broadcasters that have led to such representations. In this study – based on interviews with senior production and promotion staff at the United Kingdom’s Paralympic broadcaster, Channel 4 – we provide the first detailed examination of mediated parasport from this vantage point. We explore the use of promotional devices such as athletes’ backstories – the ‘Hollywood treatment’ – to both hook audiences and serve as a vehicle for achieving its social enterprise mandate to change public attitudes towards disability. In so doing, we reveal myriad tensions that coalesce around representing the Paralympics, with respect to the efforts made to balance the competing goals of key stakeholders and a stated desire to make the Paralympics both a commercial and socially progressive success.

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Section: The Mediation Of Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-presenting the Paralympics: (contested) philosophies, production practices and the hypervisibility of disability

Pullen

Jackson

Silk

et al. 2018

Media, Culture & Society

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Is the internet the game changer? Disabled people and digital work in China

2020

Disability & Society

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Is the internet the game changer? Disabled people and digital work in ChinaABSTRACT：The marginalisation of disabled people in paid employment has been a longstanding issue. This article examines whether the recent proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can change the employment challenges for disabled people. It focuses on China, where digitalisation has happened almost simultaneously with industrialisation, and where a special disability employment trajectory is developing. Based on an exploratory study of the economic activities of Chinese disabled people, the article presents three types of digital work, in which physical labour, social relations and ICTs-related knowledge are commodified. These types of work are in general loosely organised, self-managed and unprotected. They have both empowering and debilitating effects. The article thus argues that the personal use of the Internet is just an entry point to disability employment, and it will be more effective if combined with policy interventions and broader structural changes.

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