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Modules 7, 9, 11-12: Reading Response Paper 3

You are welcome to expand on something you said in a Blackboard discussion in your Reading Response papers. Reading responses allow you to engage with the assigned material and develop critical reading and writing skills.

  • This paper should be 2½- 3 pages -750-1,000 words – double-spaced, 12 pt. font Word document.
  • Responses should address a key issue or theme developed in the readings from that section. I will distribute prompts, but you are encouraged to create your own topic.
  • Exceptional responses will develop an interesting argument and put multiple readings in discussion with each other
  • This paper should effectively integrate at least three quotes cited from at least three course materials.
  • It should include a reference list of all sources, both readings and screenings used.
  • The checklist cover sheet, https://bethhaller.wordpress.com/syllabi/understanding-disability-through-mass-media/assignment-checklist/

Material to help:

MODULE 7 – DISCUSSIONS ON BLACKBOARD:

  • Stock photos of people with disabilities

Stock photos are mostly free images people obtain from the internet to use on web pages or with other written content online, such as blog posts or articles written for media that don’t have photographers.

Why is it important that these stock photos include disabled people?

Why should stock photos that use disabled people show them as being

active and empowered?

Watch the PSA videos, as well as look at some of the pictures:

The Disability Collection, https://www.oath.com/accessibility/getty-collection/

Getty disability images, https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/disability?mediatype=photography&phrase=disability

PhotoAbility, http://www.photoability.net/

  • Hip Hop and documentaries

Why is it important that disabled people are directing documentaries and participating in all forms of music, such as Hip Hop? What are Krip Hop Nation and (https://kriphopnation.com/) and 4 Wheel City trying to achieve?

  • “My Dad Matthew” short film

Discuss your impressions of this short documentary about parenting with a disability. What surprised you and why?

A little background: Matthew and his son Elijah’s mother are no longer together, so Elijah doesn’t live full-time with Matthew. He visits his Dad on weekends and in the summer. Matthew, who has cerebral palsy, has a full-time, live-in attendant to assist him.

“My Dad Matthew”

  • “Born This Way” reality show

How can a show like “Born This Way” change public attitudes toward people with Down syndrome? What surprised you about the young adults in the show?

Note: If you want to see more, here is the show’s page:

https://www.aetv.com/shows/born-this-way

MODULE 9 – DISCUSSIONS ON BLACKBOARD:

  • Ads featuring physically disabled people

Compare and contrast these 5 ads featuring wheelchair users. Which do you think has the best representation of a disabled person and why? Which do you think has the worst representation of a disabled person and why?

Ads:

  • Guinness wheelchair basketball ad

Watch the ad and then read Ladau’s critique. Do you agree with her? Why or why not?

  • Deaf people in ads

How are deaf people represented in ads, compared to wheelchair users? More empowering, worse, just the same? Why do you think that?

Bob’s House – Pepsi Super Bowl ad, Bob’s House — Pepsi’s new Super Bowl Ad (Links to an external site.)

Cherie’s Verse, Apple iPad: Your Verse – Cherie’s Verse (Links to an external site.)

Wells Fargo, Learning Sign Language (this features an actual lesbian couple and an actual deaf child), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K9kghcftPg

  • Emily’s OZ

This ad has really high production values and partnered with Emily in its creation. How did that make this ad unique? Why was it important that Emily had a say in this ad?

Emily’s OZ – XFINITY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWHbm4zZMCQ (Links to an external site.)

“The making of Emily’s OZ,” https://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/34509329/the-making-of-emilys-oz-with-video-description/xfinity

  • Milk-Bone service dog partnership

How does this cause marketing from Milk-Bone benefit both the company and disabled people who use service dogs? What does the audience “learn” from this ad?

Milk-Bone service dog partnership: http://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/34466502

  • Audio-described ads

How do companies benefit when they audio-describe their ads?

Apple – Accessibility – Sady (with Audio Descriptions)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL7YSqlEd8k (Links to an external site.)

Subaru commercial | See the World | with audio description
www.youtube.com/watch?v=flu6u988kh0

Module 11 – Discussions on Blackboard:

  • “Pelswick”

Watch this first episode of “Pelswick,” a Nickelodeon cartoon starring a disabled character, and discuss how it is different than other TV shows featuring disabled characters. How does the influence of having disabled cartoonist John Callahan create it come through?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cENG_rrXw60

  • Josh Blue comedy (2006 winner of Last Comic Standing)

Watch Blue’s comedy set and reflect on how he uses his disability for comedy to get people to laugh with him, not at him.

Josh Blue: 2006 Winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Paralympic Soccer Player

  • Lost Voice Guy comedy

Discuss what you think of Lee Ridley’s comedy and how he is being treated by the judges of “Britain’s Got Talent.” Is he treated like any other comedian or is he getting different treatment because he is disabled?

My #BGT Story: Lost Voice Guy | Britain’s Got Talent 2018

MODULE 12 – DISCUSSIONS ON BLACKBOARD:

  • Video game access

Read these articles and watch these 4 videos and discuss the importance of making video games accessible. Use some examples from the videos of some of the access achieved for the variety of disabled people in these videos.

Videos:

AbleGamers charity (1.34 min.): www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWt0-ovZ-Y0 (Links to an external site.)

Game Makers Toolkit, “Making Games Better for Players with Motor Disabilities | Designing for Disability,” (10.16 min.): Making Games Better for Players with Motor Disabilities | Designing for Disability (Links to an external site.)

CNET, “Disabled players get new life through video games,” (2.34 min.): https://www.cnet.com/videos/disabled-players-get-new-life-through-video-games/ (Links to an external site.)

Financial Times, “People’s technology: video games for the disabled,” (4.16 min.): People’s technology: video games for the disabled

  • Microsoft’s Xbox adaptive controller

Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller made gaming much more accessible when it came out in 2018. Why is it important that a major computer company like Microsoft developed an accessible video game controller?

Microsoft Xbox promotional info: https://news.microsoft.com/stories/xbox-adaptive-controller/ (Links to an external site.)

  • Disabled characters in video games

Video games could have ignored the disability community and had no characters with disabilities in them. Why do you think video games want to include disability representation, just as more TV shows, advertisements and even films do?

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