Disability, Communication and Media Scholarship

Selected Books, Edited Collections, Book Series, and Dedicated Courses

Chronological bibliography in Chicago style | Updated October 2026

1. Selected Authored Books and Monographs

Selected works with direct relevance to disability, communication, media, rhetoric, technology, access, representation, and related critical traditions.

Goggin, Gerard, and Christopher Newell. Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Riley, Charles A. Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change. University Press of New England, 2005.

Haller, Beth A. Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media. Advocado Press, 2010.

Ellis, Katie, and Mike Kent. Disability and New Media. Routledge, 2011.

Jaeger, Paul T. Disability and the Internet: Confronting a Digital Divide. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011.

Alper, Meryl. Digital Youth with Disabilities. MIT Press, 2014.

Dolmage, Jay Timothy. Disability Rhetoric. Syracuse University Press, 2014.

Ellis, Katie. Disability and Popular Culture: Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance. Routledge, 2015.

Ellis, Katie, and Gerard Goggin. Disability and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Ellcessor, Elizabeth. Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation. New York University Press, 2016.

Ellis, Katie. Disability Media Work: Opportunities and Obstacles. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Longmore, Paul K. Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Alper, Meryl. Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality. MIT Press, 2017.

Banner, Olivia. Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities. University of Michigan Press, 2017.

Hamraie, Aimi. Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Trevisan, Filippo. Disability Rights Advocacy Online: Voice, Empowerment and Global Connectivity. Routledge, 2017.

Kleege, Georgina. More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Yergeau, M. Remi. Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness. Duke University Press, 2018.

Ellis, Katie. Disability and Digital Television Cultures: Representation, Access, and Reception. Routledge, 2019.

Rajabi, Samira. All My Friends Live in My Computer: Trauma, Tactical Media, and Meaning. Rutgers University Press, 2021.

Ellcessor, Elizabeth. In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality. New York University Press, 2022.

St. Pierre, Joshua. Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication. University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Sterne, Jonathan. Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment. Duke University Press, 2022.

Alper, Meryl. Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age. MIT Press, 2023.

Dokumaci, Arseli. Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds. Duke University Press, 2023.

Shew, Ashley. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. W. W. Norton, 2023.

Haller, Beth A. Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World. Routledge, 2024.

Houston, Ella. Advertising Disability. Routledge, 2024.

Kressbach, Mikki. Sensing Health: Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies. University of Michigan Press, 2024.

Madej, Krystina. Representation of Disability in Children's Video Games. Routledge, 2024.

Todd, Anastasia. Cripping Girlhood. University of Michigan Press, 2024.

Alexander, Neta. Interface Frictions: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies. Duke University Press, 2025.

Banner, Olivia. Crip Screens: Countering Psychiatric Media Technologies. Duke University Press, 2025.

DISCO Network. Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal. Stanford University Press, 2025.

Qu, Yuanyuan. Becoming Digital Citizens: Disability, ICTs, and Citizenship in Contemporary China. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Ang, Pei Soo, and Siang Lee Yeo. Visual Discourses of Disability: Interpreting Press Images of Disability from a Discourse-Semiotic Perspective. Routledge, 2026.

Egliston, Ben, Marcus Carter, Kate Euphemia Clark, Gerard Goggin, Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Wenqi Tan, and Joanne Gray. The Limits of Immersion: Disability and Virtual Reality. Bristol University Press, forthcoming 2026.

Emmanuel, Ngozi Marion. Disability Representation in Nollywood and Nigerian Cultures. Routledge, forthcoming 2027.

Rauchberg, Jess. Platform Hygiene: How Algorithmic Ableism Shapes Creator Culture. Duke University Press, forthcoming.

Rauchberg, Jess, co-ed. Disability Media Cultures: A Disability Studies Reader. New York University Press, forthcoming.

Lagerkvist, Amanda. Dismedia: Technologies of the Extraordinary Self. University of Michigan Press, under contract.

2. Edited Volumes, Handbooks, and Companions

Braithwaite, Dawn O., and Teresa L. Thompson, eds. Handbook of Communication and People with Disabilities: Research and Application. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000.

Mogk, Marja Evelyn, ed. Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television. McFarland, 2013.

Ellis, Katie, and Mike Kent, eds. Disability and the Media. Routledge, 2017.

Ellis, Katie, and Mike Kent, eds. Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives. Routledge, 2017.

Ellcessor, Elizabeth, and Bill Kirkpatrick, eds. Disability Media Studies. New York University Press, 2017.

Brylla, Catalin, and Helen Hughes, eds. Documentary and Disability. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Hadley, Bree, and Donna McDonald, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media. Routledge, 2019.

Ellis, Katie, Gerard Goggin, Beth A. Haller, and Rosemary Curtis, eds. The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media. Routledge, 2020.

Johanssen, Jacob, and Diana Garrisi, eds. Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies. Routledge, 2020.

Baker, Charlotte, and Elvis Imafidon, eds. Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change. Peter Lang, 2022.

Jeffress, Michael S., ed. Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media. Routledge, 2022.

Jeffress, Michael S., Joy M. Cypher, Jim Ferris, and Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Ellis, Katie, Tama Leaver, and Mike Kent, eds. Gaming Disability: Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games. Routledge, 2023.

Jones, Chelsea Temple, Fady Shanouda, and Lisanne Binhammer, eds. Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education. Athabasca University Press, 2025.

Willis, Erin, and Chad Painter, eds. Communicating Disability: Expanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Health Communication and Mass Media. Routledge, 2025.

3. Selected Book Series Supporting Disability, Communication and Media Scholarship

Routledge Research in Disability and Media Studies. Routledge. Series editor: Katie Ellis.

Disability, Media, Culture. Peter Lang. Series editor: Alison Wilde.

4. Dedicated Disability Courses in Communication and Media Schools/Departments

New York University, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. MCC-UE 1026: Disability, Technology and Media

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University of Virginia, Department of Media Studies. MDST 3662: Disability and Media

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University of Virginia, Department of Media Studies. MDST 3665: Digital Media Accessibility

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University of Virginia, Department of Media Studies. MDST 8024: Tutorial in Disability Media Studies

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University of Colorado Boulder, Media Studies. MDST 6722: Disability Media Studies

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Tulane University, Department of Communication. COMM 3720: Disability Media Studies

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Tulane University, Department of Communication. COMM 3420: Disability & Reality TV

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University of Wisconsin-Madison, Communication Arts / Journalism and Mass Communication. COM ARTS/JOURN/RP&SE 312: Disability and the Media

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University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Communication. COMM 3346: Disability in Mass Media

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University of Texas at Dallas, Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication. ATCM 4322: Disability, Technology, and Media

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Santa Clara University, Department of Communication. COMM 181D: Disability in Global Media and Culture

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Towson University, Department of Mass Communication. MCOM 310: Understanding Disability Through Mass Media

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West Chester University, Department of Communication and Media. COM 295: Communication and Disability

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Cukurova University, Faculty of Communication / Journalism. GZS416: Disability and Media

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Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. CS4321: Digital Inclusion and Disability: Technology, Inclusive Design and Social Futures

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