Depictions of people with disabilities in the British media

Friday October 2, 2009

Keywords: Western Europe, English, disabilities, media, social diversity models, article

In this long article, Ashwin Bulsara argues that media’s portrayal of disable people in the United Kingdom has a long history of oppressive and negative representation. Disable people have been presented as socially flawed able-bodied people rather than as disabled people with their own identity.

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