Disability and Digital Television Cultures

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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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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.

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Acknowledgements

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