Representations of Disability
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- Created on: 06-05-19 17:23
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- Representations on Disability
- A physical impairment which has long-term effect on a persons ability to carry out day-to-day activities
- Shakespeare (1998)
- Disability is a social contraction
- A problem created by society and not by the state of our bodies
- Society turns an impairment into a disability and society discriminates
- A problem created by society and not by the state of our bodies
- Shakespeare (1999)
- Disabilities are used as character traits and plot devices and are not accurate
- This reinforces negative stereotype
- Disabilities are used as character traits and plot devices and are not accurate
- Disability is a social contraction
- EXAMPLE
- Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 2011
- 1 in 20 Children
- 25% of over 16s
- 8 Million working age
- Cumberbatch et al (2014)
- Content analysis 2013-14
- People portrayed as disabled made just 2.5 % onTV programmes
- Content analysis 2013-14
- Ofcam (2005)
- 4 in 10 of disabled people on TV were there to highlight issues of discrimination
- Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 2011
- Marxists
- Briant et al of GMG
- Study comparing media in five newspapers (2004-5, 2010-11)
- More articles are linking disabilities to benefit fraud
- 'Undeserving'
- 'Cheat'
- More articles are linking disabilities to benefit fraud
- Study comparing media in five newspapers (2004-5, 2010-11)
- Briant et al of GMG
- HOWEVER
- Philo et al (2020)
- GMG
- Study of TV dramas
- 63% of references to mental health were negative
- BUT
- GMG and Time to Change and found that the first three months of 2014 the view was becoming more positive
- BUT
- 63% of references to mental health were negative
- Study of TV dramas
- GMG
- Philo et al (2020)
- Barnes (1992)
- Vast majority of information about disabled people in books, films and in the press is negative
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