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Disability Rights on the Public Agenda: Elite News Media Coverage of The Americans With Disabilities Act
(Temple University, 1995)This dissertation undertook a content analysis of U.S. elite newspapers and the three major news magazines (N=524), news photographs (N=171), and TV network news (N =24) to understand how the news media presented the ... -
Principles of visual anthropology, review
(Wiley Blackwell, 1997-03)The importance of the original publication in 1975 of Paul Hockings' Principles of Visual Anthropology cannot be underestimated. Along with Karl Heider's Ethnographic Film (1976), Hockings' collection is regarded by people ... -
Images of Disability in News Media: Implications for Further Research
(1997-11)Even in the 1990s, little research has focused on how local media can more often and more accurately cover the disability community and disability issues. Some positive news coverage arose in the late 1980s because of ... -
Profitability, diversity, and disability images in advertising in the United States and Great Britain
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The news of inclusive education: a narrative analysis
(Taylor & Francis, 2001-10)This paper investigates a nationally publicized case in the debate over the best method of educating millions of children with severe disabilities. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, this paper analyses 4 years of the ... -
John Callahan’s Pelswick cartoon and a new phase of disability humor
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John Marshall's Kalahari family
(American Anthropological Association, 2004)Throughout his career and through his films, John Marshall has embodied many representational debates in anthropology and ethnographic media production. With "A Kalahari Family," Marshall has provided his most reflexive ... -
Monticello's master: Sally Hemings and the deconstruction of the Patriot archetype
(Delta Sigma Rho--Tau Kappa Alpha, 2004-01)We explore the above discrepancy by posing the question: How does the Sally Hemings controversy work to deconstruct the popular conception of Tho-mas Jefferson as American Patriot through the use of converging and conflicting ... -
"The Anthropology of Media" and "Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain"
(American Ethnological Society, 2004-02)Book reviews of "Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain". Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu‐Lughod, and Brian Larkin, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press and "The Anthropology of Media: A Reader". Kelly Askew and ... -
When "van talk" steers out of control: a theoretical exploration of team traditions
(National Forensic Association, 2005)Forensics traditions are classically perceived as positive motivators within the team dynamic. We illuminate, however, the disadvantages of team traditions after exploring the variables within team cohesion, and how those ... -
Promoting disability-friendly campuses to prospective students: An analysis of university recruitment materials
(Ohio State University Libraries, 2006)Estimates are that currently about 9 percent of students on college campuses have some form of disability. These students are all are supposed to receive accommodations on those college campuses based on Section 504 of the ... -
Are disability images in advertising becoming bold and daring? An analysis of prominent themes in US and UK campaigns
(Ohio State University Libraries, 2006)Advertisements featuring disabled people have become more noticeable in the United States (USA) and Great Britain/United Kingdom (UK) in the last decade. The focus of this article is to qualitatively analyze a selection ... -
Race, space and place in suburban Durban: an ethnographic assessment of gated community environments and residents
(Springer, 2006)This paper explores gated community culture and development in the suburbs of North Durban in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Using perspectives from the anthropology of space and place as a theoretical and ... -
Media labeling versus the US disability community identity: a study of shifting cultural language
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-01)This study examines disability terminology to explore how the news media frame cultural representations of the disability community. More specifically, the paper examines the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act ... -
Dead birds: review
(Wiley Blackwell, 2006-09)Robert Gardner’s many contributions to ethnographic documentary film production are undeniable and problematic. The historical and critical discussions that have surrounded Robert Gardner, and Dead Birds in particular, are ... -
The Ethnographic Semiotics of a Suburban Moral Panic
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)This article describes Worth’s notion of ethnographic semiotics as part of an overall strategy employing the anthropology of visual communication in ethnographic research focused on media portrayals of a suburban community ... -
Introduction
(Modern Language Association, 2007)The articles collected for this issue of Critical Arts provide a number of different entrées into the practice of media anthropology while remaining true to the origins of this particular journal by providing a space where ... -
Moral Panics in Suburban Texas
(EASA Media Anthropology Network, 2007-03-06)This paper details portions of an ethnographic study of a moral panic that surrounded the heroin overdose deaths of several teenagers in the American suburb of Plano, Texas. Media ethnography engages numerous individuals ... -
Divergent and similar experiences of 'gating' in South Africa: Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town
(Springer Nature, 2008)The last 20 years has witnessed an explosion not only in the growth of private residential territories throughout the world, but also in the literature addressing them. The majority of research is centred on experiences ... -
Computer-based recorded speech for word recognition testing
(2008-10-21)Although the importance of using standardized recordings for word recognition testing is well established, many clinicians still routinely use monitored-live voice (MLV). A prototype software program was developed to ...