A short and easy-to-read overview of how disabled Americans have been portrayed by the media and how images and the role of the handicapped are changing.
Introduction
Broken Images: Portrayals of Those with Disabilities in American
Media by Jack A. Nelson
Sticks and Stones: The Language of Disability by Mary Johnson
Disability Coverage in American Newspapers by John Clogston
Disability Rights as Civil Rights: The Struggle for Recognition by
Joseph P. Shapiro
Disability and the Media: The Ethics of the Matter by Deni
Elliott
Disability Issues and the ASNE: All of Us Are Disabled by Bill
Breisky
In the Workplace: The Reality
Is There a Future in Journalism for Those With A Disability:--The
Other 80 Percent by Clark Edwards
From Mailroom to Newsroom by Joe Coughlin
Assistive Technology and Software: Liberating All of Us by Michael
R. Smith
How Deaf Students Won Their Case at Gallaudet University--By Taking
to the Streets by Lillie S. Ransom
The Visually-Handicapped Person and Technology by John M. Crandell
and Lee W. Robinson
"My God! Another Little One?": Little Journalists' Contributions to
the U.S. Media by Alf Pratte
International Aspects of the Disability Issue by Cherie S.
Lewis
Virtual Reality: The Promise of a Brave New World for Those with
Disabilities by Jack A. Nelson
Appendixes: Reporting on People with Disabilities: A Glossary of
Terms
Serial Publications Dealing with Disabilities
Major Organizations Concerned with Disabilities
Bibliography
Index
JACK A. NELSON, Associate Professor, Department of Communications, Brigham Young University, has written at length and broadly in the field of communications and the humanities and in history. He has taught at the California State University at Humboldt and the University of Utah. He has worked as a reported for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City and since 1981 has served as part-time Utah editor for Western Outdoors Magazine. His doctorate is from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He has been a paraplegic since the age of 17.
.,."highly readable presentation of the issues with plenty of
practical examples. The book is highly recommended to anyone
interested in media studies, people with disabilities and social
issues."-Australian Library Review
?...highly readable presentation of the issues with plenty of
practical examples. The book is highly recommended to anyone
interested in media studies, people with disabilities and social
issues.?-Australian Library Review
?Recommended for journalism collections and libraries that
specialize in disabilities issues.?-Choice
?The Disabled, the Media and the Information Age offers a useful
and informative collection of observations about the often uneasy
relationship between the disability community and the mass media.
For the growing number of academicians and students interested in
disability issues, this volume is a helpful resource; for media
practitioners, this book might even enable breakthroughs in
understanding.?-Disability Studies Quarterly
..."highly readable presentation of the issues with plenty of
practical examples. The book is highly recommended to anyone
interested in media studies, people with disabilities and social
issues."-Australian Library Review
"Recommended for journalism collections and libraries that
specialize in disabilities issues."-Choice
"The Disabled, the Media and the Information Age offers a useful
and informative collection of observations about the often uneasy
relationship between the disability community and the mass media.
For the growing number of academicians and students interested in
disability issues, this volume is a helpful resource; for media
practitioners, this book might even enable breakthroughs in
understanding."-Disability Studies Quarterly
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