Impact of a film portrayal of a police officer with spinal cord injury on attitudes towards disability: a media effects experiment

Reinhardt, Jan D.; Pennycott, Andrew; Fellinghauer, Bernd A. G.

doi:10.3109/09638288.2013.788219

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“…We obtained a convenience sample, which was accessible to us during the daytime at the university. The results of previous studies tended to support the notion that public media would have a general impact on viewers' attitudes toward PWDs regardless of their educational levels and fields of study (Farnall & Smith, 1999;Ferrara et al, 2015;Reinhardt et al, 2014;Safran, 1998). Accordingly, we believe that the results of this study are informative in regard to undergraduate and graduate education across various majors.…”

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confidence: 55%

Changing Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities Using Public Media: An Experimental Study

Webber

Romero

et al. 2017

Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

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Historically, public media has tended to portray PWDs as being miserable, helpless, unstable, or even dangerous (Maki & Tarvydas, 2012; Safran, 1998). In response, a growing number of studies are emerging that target the effects of positive portrayals of PWDs through public media on changing individuals' attitudes. In a retrospective study, Farnall and Smith (1999) noted that participants who reported having watched television shows (e.g., Life Goes On) or movies (e.g., Rainman) that optimistically portrayed PWDs tended to be less likely to report feeling negatively 700820R CBXXX10.

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confidence: 55%

Changing Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities Using Public Media: An Experimental Study

Webber

Romero

et al. 2017

Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

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“…The way media (television and film) portrays disabilities has been found to influence perceptions and understandings of disability (Samsel and Perepa 2013). The use of film to depict employed disabled persons (in the cited research the film featured a police officer with paraplegia) has been successful in increasing nondisabled participants' ratings of eligibility and employment rates of disabled persons (Reinhardt, Pennycott, and Fellinghauer 2014). An earlier study found that paid advertising could be used to successfully modify beliefs underlying racial discrimination in employment of indigenous peoples (Donovan and Leivers 1993).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…This article suggests an interrupter (Williams 2014) technique that is more in line with advertising (Reinhardt, Pennycott, and Fellinghauer 2014;Samsel and Perepa 2013;Donovan and Leivers 1993): such an approach uses media to perhaps more subtly overwrite mental models that may be held by the general population, thereby enriching and expanding what we hold to be prototypical members or employees of the library staff. In doing so we can make the invisible debilities of these models-"invisible" because they are unacknowledged-into visible abilities of underrepresented groups now visualized as a range of possible employees successfully fulfilling a range of positions in our country's libraries.…”

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confidence: 96%

Invisible Debility: Attitudes toward the Underrepresented in Library Workplaces

Brown

2015

Public Library Quarterly

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“…These include ethnic minorities, such as native Americans (Rollins & O'Connor, 1998), and various kinds of disabilities (Safran, 1998a(Safran, , 1998bArokiasamy, 1996), such as epilepsy (Kerson et al, 2000). There is also representation of some functional or occupational groups: female athletes (Wuestenberg & Todd, n.d.), archivists (Oliver & Daniel, 2015), lawyers (Beard, 2011) and policemen (Reinhardt et al, 2014), as well as political and religious groupings: Communism (Khouri, 2007), radical Islamists (Fachinger, 2011), and the Klu Klux Klan (Dessommes, 1999). More general themes include the tobacco industry (Dixon et al, 2001) and modernist architecture (Heathcote, 2000).…”

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“…More general themes include the tobacco industry (Dixon et al, 2001) and modernist architecture (Heathcote, 2000). In a few cases the research involves the testing of public response to the depiction of the theme (Dixon et al, 2001;Reinhardt et al, 2014), but in most studies the methodology consists simply of narrative content analysis. In several of the papers (Beard, 2011;Dessommes, 1999;Dixon et al, 2001) there is no explicit methodology, but the portrayal of the topic is clearly based on narrative aspects of the plot and the observed personality of the characters.…”

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Chapter 4 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: A Study of the Organization Through the Lens of Popular Films of the Western World

Lomas¹,

Broughton²

2018

Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations

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Purpose-This chapter examines portrayals of the morality of organizations using the lens of Western films. The work explores six decades of film analyzing the organizational contexts and their agents, in order to understand film makers' and audiences' perceptions of organizational settings. Methodology/approach-In order, to examine the organization as an entity within film this chapter provides a content analysis of plot summaries from a purposefully selected body of top grossing box office films spanning 60 years. The plot summaries constitute a strong basis for identifying the characteristics of the organization as they are largely descriptive in nature, and as such do not offer any evaluation or analysis of the film. Any assumptions about the character of organizations (or their members/employees) are unconscious, and as such they constitute a verbal description of what competent observers would say has occurred within the film. The plots were coded to reveal perceptions of positive, neutral or negative organizational contexts and actions. Findings-This approach exposed the film makers symbolic placing of the organization in order to provide backdrops for the narrative. The plot analysis revealed that throughout the decades there has been a sophisticated portrayal in film of the role of the organization and the agents therein. A generally negative view of organizational contexts is demonstrated, with only religion and education showing as positive within the films selected. Research limitations and implications-It is recognised that there would be value in extending this research to analyze a larger body of works. The selection criteria resulted in a wide but not comprehensive corpus of film genres. The body of works was sufficient to reveal the complexity of attitudes to organizational values and delivery which has evolved through time. Different selection criteria and more substantial narrative text could serve to confirm these results. Further implications for future research are discussed. Social/Practical implications-Whilst in the real-life sphere there has been an emphasis on organizational standards and 'corporate governance' delivering ethical exemplars, the film contexts highlight the complexities of delivering trusted organizations. The reality that there remains the potential for organizational corruption is well understood by the general public and clearly depicted within the film world. Originality-The conceptual contribution is original as limited work has been conducted on the organizational context in films. This work reveals the possibility of using this approach to further develop a greater understanding of perceptions of organizations.

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Impact of a film portrayal of a police officer with spinal cord injury on attitudes towards disability: a media effects experiment

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Changing Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities Using Public Media: An Experimental Study

Changing Attitudes Toward People With Disabilities Using Public Media: An Experimental Study

Invisible Debility: Attitudes toward the Underrepresented in Library Workplaces

Chapter 4 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: A Study of the Organization Through the Lens of Popular Films of the Western World

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