Books written by Katie Ellis

Disability and New Media

Interestingly, Maguire was subjected to a backlash from both the general Australian community as well as those with disability. Maguire recalls the views expressed by both people with disability and those without following a talkback ...
Disability and the Media

At the opening of the 2010 film The King's Speech, the future King George VI (played by actor Colin Firth) struggles painfully to articulate his words, giving a speech via a public address system to a large, excited crowd.
Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives

As forms of socio-political action, the self-expressions and selfdefinitions of autistic subjects have fundamentally altered the autism discourse on four main levels. First, the self-narratives have revisited medical and therapeutic ...
Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives

This collection explores the opportunities and challenges social media represents for the social inclusion of people with disabilities from a variety of different global perspectives that include Africa, Arabia and Asia along with European, ...
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies

This collection identifies the key tensions and conflicts being debated within the field of critical disability studies and provides both an outline of the field in its current form and offers manifestos for its future direction.
Disability and Popular Culture: Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance

Covering a broad range of concerns that lie at the intersection of disability and cultural studies, including media representation, identity, the beauty myth, aesthetics, ableism, new media and sport, this book will appeal to scholars and ...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability: Looking Towards the Future:

Crystal Dynamics (2013): Tomb Raider. USA: Square Enix. ... Rockstar North (2013): Grand Theft Auto V. USA: Rockstar Games. Sucker Punch Productions (2005): Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves. USA: Sony Interactive. Techland (2011): Dead Island ...
The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media

For example, inclusive advertising, the incidental and inclusive representation of persons with disabilities in mass-reach ... film and television.79 It promoted authentic dialogue about race, culture and disability that embraced the ...
Disability Media Work: Opportunities and Obstacles

These guidelines are now out of date in a rapidly changing media environment; however, their legacy can be seen in the ... Adjusting the Picture in particular recognises the influence of employer fear around job performance, ...
Disability and New Media

This book discusses an array of such applications that have grown within and alongside Web 2.0, and analyzes how they both prevent and embrace the inclusion of people with disability.
Disability and Digital Television Cultures: Representation, Access, and Reception

Interactive Media e-journal, 8 (Masculin/Feminin). Retrieved from http://nass.murdoch.edu.au/issue8/pdf/IM8-masculine-femininearticle-04-ellis.pdf Ellis, K. (2015a). Disability and popular culture: Focusing passion, creating community ...
Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications

Kimdog. (2009, July 11). Will Drop Dead Diva live up to the hype? [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://www.bigfatblog.com/will-drop-dead-diva-live-hype klouise. (2011, May 4). Re: Vera Review: ITV's drama renaissance continues [Online ...
Gaming Disability: Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games

This book is an important collection for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of digital games, and will be of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game design and development, internet studies, ...
Chinese Social Media: Social, Cultural, and Political Implications

This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the Anglophone paradigm.
Gaming Disability: Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games

... The Reapers appear every 50 million years and aim to harvest all sentient beings. In the finale of Mass Effect (BioWare Corporation, 2007), Shepard manages to kill one Reaper; Mass Effect 2 ties in with this ending. At the beginning of Mass ...
Trauma and Disability in Mad Max: Beyond the Road Warrior’s Fury

This book explores the inter-relationship of disability and trauma in the Mad Max films (1979-2015).