Case Study: Day 1

Represenation of disablity in the media

Platforms: Broadcast, Emedia, Print

Text types: Newspaper, Magazine (Real Life stories) film (The Ringer) Documentary (channel 5 - Extraordinary People series and BBC One Love Me, Love My Face)


Wider context:

• Human Rights
• Social Understanding
• Exclusion
  

Time frames: Contempary, in the past 5 years.

Theoretical findings:

• Marxism
• Postmodernism

Media issues:

• Human Rights
• Equality
• Popular culture; is it because we dont want to see?
• Token character?
• Do we always feel sorry for them?