Ellis, Katie M
Curtin University
Australia
A/Prof Katie Ellis is a senior research fellow in the department of internet studies at Curtin University. Her research focuses on disability and digital and networked media.
Her books include Disabling Diversity (VDM Verlag, 2008), Disability and New Media (with Mike Kent; Routledge, 2011), Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Identifications (with Debbie Rodan and Pia Lebeck; Ashgate, 2014), Disability and the Media (with Gerard Goggin; Palgrave, 2014) and Focusing Passion, Creating Community, Expressing Defiance: Disability and Popular Culture (Ashgate, 2014)
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FeatureGames of Thrones was awarded a Media Access Award in 2013 in recognition of its efforts in "promoting awareness of the disability experience, accessibility for people with disabilities, and the accurate depiction of characters with disabilities" (Winter Is Coming). In addition to this award, the individual character Tryion Lannister has amassed somewhat of a cult following for his...Read more
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ArticlesIntroductionWithin Australia, the approach taken to the ways in which disabled people access television is heavily influenced by legislation and activism from abroad. This is increasingly the case as television moves to online modes of distribution where physical and legislative boundaries are more fluid. While early investigations of the intersections between...Read more
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ArticlesIntroductionIn a 2013 press release issued by Blind Citizens Australia, the advocacy group announced they were lodging a human rights complaint against the Australian government and the ABC over the lack of audio description available on the public broadcaster. Audio description is a track of narration included between the lines of dialogue which describes important visual elements...Read more
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EditorialWhen Malcolm Fraser opened The Australian Captioning Centre in 1982, he emphasised the importance of changing technology in improving the provision of captions:there is always going to be new technology coming forward, there will always be better ways of doing it if you wait a while. This has been delayed a long while already and I don't believe that there is any excuse for further...Read more
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ArticlesWriting in the American Annals of the Deaf in 1931, Emil S. Ladner Jr, a Deaf high school student, predicted the invention of words on screen to facilitate access to “talkies”. He anticipated:Perhaps, in time, an invention will be perfected that will enable the deaf to hear the “talkies”, or an invention which will throw the words spoken directly under the screen...Read more
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ArticlesWhile the television cooking genre has evolved in numerous ways to withstand competition and become a constant feature in television programming (Collins and College), it has been argued that audience demand for televisual cooking has always been high because of the daily importance of cooking (Hamada, “Multimedia Integration”). Early cooking shows were characterised by an instructional...Read more
