How have disabled Americans been portrayed by the media through the years and how are images and the role of the handicapped changing? Jack Nelson and a series of experts in communication and the disabled offer an easy-to-read overview of key issues, continuing problems, new opportunities, and new technological tools. Professionals and teachers in communication, along with experts and general readers interested in public policy and social issues, will find this short study, with its illustrations, descriptions and lists of organizations and its bibliographical materials, a handy reference.
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.,."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
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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.
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A few years ago in an episode of "Little House on the Prairie," children from the town's school for the blind were being transferred to another town because the school was moving. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Disability Rag, Disabilities Act, Washington Post, Gallaudet University, United States, King Jordan, Los Angeles, United Nations, World War, White House, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Mary Johnson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Lem Tucker, Associated Press, Christy Brown, Karen Stone, Wall Street Journal, Job Accommodation Network, Keith Byrd, Louisville Courier-Journal, Miami Herald, Tiny Tim New!
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A few years ago in an episode of "Little House on the Prairie," children from the town's school for the blind were being transferred to another town because the school was moving. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Disability Rag, Disabilities Act, Washington Post, Gallaudet University, United States, King Jordan, Los Angeles, United Nations, World War, White House, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Mary Johnson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Lem Tucker, Associated Press, Christy Brown, Karen Stone, Wall Street Journal, Job Accommodation Network, Keith Byrd, Louisville Courier-Journal, Miami Herald, Tiny Tim New!
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- The Civil Rights Movement (Magill's Choice) by Salem Press on 4 pages
- Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society by Howard Rheingold on page 200, page 206, and Back Matter
- MY LEFT FOOT. by Shane and Sheridan, Jim. Screenplay Based on the book By Christy Brown) Connaughton on page 12, page 18, and page 120
- Americans With Disabilities (The Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science Series Vol 549) by Willia Johnson on page 68, and Back Matter
- No Pity : People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement by Joseph P. Shapiro in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Cultural Studies (Issue 3 Vol 9) by Lawrence Grossberg in Back Matter
- The Press on Trial: Crimes and Trials as Media Events (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications) by Lloyd Chiasson in Front Matter
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