Media Representations of Disability

Representations of Disability

Barnes: Identified a no. of recurring stereotypes of disabled people:

• Pitiable and pathetic
• As an object of violence - 3x as likely to get killed off television soaps than able-bodied people
• As sinister or evil - Morris claimed that disability in media has a become a metaphor something evil; the writer knows that disability often produces prejudice, fear and ignorance in people and will evoke certain feelings within an…