Introduction: Disability and Media--an Emergent Field PART I Imagining and Representing Disability 1 Disability Imaginaries in the News 2 What's It All Worth? The Political Economy of Disability Representation in Indian Media 3 Decolonizing the Dynamics of Media Power and Media Representation Between 1830 and 1930: Australian Indigenous Peoples with Disability 4 Featuring Disabled Women in Advertisements: The Commodification of Diversity? 5 Still Playing It Safe: A Comparative Analysis of Disability Narratives in The Sessions, Breathing Lessons and "On Seeing A Sex Surrogate" 6 Mental Distress, Romance and Gender in Contemporary Films: Greenberg and Silver Linings Playbook 7 Still Julianne: Projecting Dementia on the Silvering Screen 8 Authentic Disability Representation on US Television Past and Present 9 The Spectacularization of Disability Sport: Brazilian and Australian Newspaper photographs of 2012 London Paralympic Athletes 10 George R. R. Martin and the Two Dwarfs 11 Embodying Metaphors: Disability Tropes in Political Cartoons 12 Resisting Erasure: Reading (Dis)ability and Race in Speculative Media PART II Audience, Participation, and Making Media 13 Producerly Disability Popular Culture: The Collision of Critical and Receptive Attitudes 14 The Bodies of Film Club: Disability, Identity and Empowerment 15 Disability Narratives in the News Media: A Spotlight on Africa 16 Disabled Media Creators in Afghanistan, China and Somalia 17 Youth with Disabilities in Africa: Bridging the Disability Divide 18 Engaging Accessibility Issues Through Mobile Videos in Montréal 19 Pages of Life: Using a Telenovela to Promote the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Brazil 20 How Do You Write That in Sign Language?: A Graphic Signed Novel as Source of Epistemological Reflection on Writing PART III Media Technologies of Disability 21 GimpGirl: Insider Perspectives on Technology and the Lives of Disabled Women 22 Digital Media Accessibility: An Evolving Infrastructure of Possibility 23 Making the Web More Interactive and Accessible for Blind People 24 Social Media and Disability: It's Complicated 25 When Face-to-Face Is Screen-to-Screen: Reconsidering Mobile Media as Communication Augmentations and Alternatives 26 Mobile Phones and Visual Impairment in South Africa: Experiences from a Small Town 27 Video on Demand: Is this Australia's New Disability Divide? 28 Individuals with Physical Impairments as Life Hackers?: Analyzing Online Content to Interrogate Dis/Ability and Design 29 Interdependence in Collaboration with Robots PART IV Innovations, Challenges and Future Terrains of Transformation 30 Dropping the Disability Beat: Why Specialized Reporting Doesn't Solve Disability (Mis)representation 31 Advertising Disability and the Diversity Directive 32 Disability Advocacy in BBC's Ouch and ABC's 33 Representing Difference: Disability, Digital Storytelling and Public Pedagogy 34 Needs Must: Digital Innovations in Disability Rights Advocacy 35 Disability Media Work 36 Books and People with Print Disabilities: Public Value and the International Disability Human Rights Agenda.