E Ellcessor
Biographic Data
| ID | 45084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Ellcessor |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellcessor |
| SIGNATURE | ELLCESSOR E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1149-5670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disability Dates as Microgenre
This article performs a historical corrective, documenting representations of disability in popular U.S. television sitcoms of the 1990s. While these shows did not center disability, they often featured strikingly similar episodic narratives involving disability, using the framework of romantic dates with a main character. This article analyzes these episodes as a microgenre, referred to as “disability dates.” This microgenre represents a fleetin…
Rumo a um campo de Estudos de Mídia e Deficiência
Não se aplica
The care and feeding of 9-1-1 infrastructure
Emergency dispatchers who receive 9-1-1 calls and initiate various emergency response services perform media work that produces 9-1-1 as an infrastructural system for the public at large. This should be considered media work because it centres the interpretation of media content and navigation of multimedia systems. While a nontraditional site for the study of media work, emergency dispatch can be studied through methods of media industry and inf…
Three Vignettes in Pursuit of Accessible Pandemic Teaching
Technologies, bureaucracy, and disaster
Disability Media Studies
Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of study, based in the rich traditions of media, cultural, and disability studies. Necessarily interdisciplinary and diverse, this collection weaves together work from scholars from a variety of disciplinary homes, into a broader conversation about exploring …
Blue-light emergency phones on campus
In recent years, movements such as #metoo, Slutwalk, and others have drawn attention to women’s experiences of a lack of safety in public, professional, and educational spaces. This article steps back to an earlier era of such activism, tracking the context in which blue-light emergency phones were installed on college and university campuses in the United States. I argue that blue-light phones constitute an infrastructure of feeling, drawing on …
Accessing fan cultures
This chapter reviews the intersection of disability, online cultures, and media fandoms. It considers fan communities' history of disability inclusion, leading many fans with and without disabilities to work around technological barriers to find new paths to access. On blogs and social media, people with disabilities share experiences, develop a shared cultural space, and come to recognize a social model of disability or to participate in a disab…
Acculturations of disability
One tweet to make so much noise”
Celebrity activism, online celebrity, and online activism are all growing areas of research, but have received relatively little integration. This article argues that connected celebrity activism deploys social media to forge a variety of connections, enabling activist values to pervade a celebrity persona, reinforcing perceptions of authenticity and recirculating those values to disparate audiences. In the case of Deaf American actor Marlee Matl…
Cyborg hoaxes
This article examines academic and popular examples of a “cyborg hoax”—an articulation of gender, dis/ability, and technology that is deceptive, reinforces an ideology of ability, and prevents users and scholars alike from seeing the value of disability for digital media cultures. The article uses cyborg theory, cyberculture studies, literature on online deception, and critical disability studies to argue that cyborg hoaxes are a dominant but ste…
Blurred lines
Using the example of recent access problems caused by Apple’s iOS7 operating system for the iPhone, this paper interrogates the history and utility of the concept of “accessibility.” The term’s reliance on definitions of disability, particularly in the U.S. legal context, and the blurring nature of information technologies have made it increasingly difficult to differentiate between accessibility for people with disabilities and usability concern…
Is there a sign for that? Media, American Sign Language interpretation, and the paradox of visibility
In the transitions between English and American Sign Language (ASL), linguistic and cultural translations are made visible through the embodied actions of interpreters. Recent years have seen a spike in attention to ASL interpreters, with mainstream media publishing stories on Lydia Callis and Holly Maniatty, among others. The very visibility of ASL interpretation poses a challenge to the invisibility of media access and the place of disability a…
Captions On, Off, on TV, Online
This article considers the current state of closed captioning for online videos, in the U.S. context. As media access is foundational to cultural citizenship, captions and similar accessibility features are essential to forming an inclusive participatory culture, online and off. Drawing on the history of television closed captioning and theatrical film captioning, it argues that captions and deafness have long been associated with the private, co…
Bridging Disability Divides
This paper takes a disability studies perspective on the history of the development of web content accessibility policies in the United States. Using procedural documents, popular press accounts, and policy documents themselves, augmented by personal interviews with key participants, I sketch a critical history of accessible web development. First, I argue that the world wide web consortium accessibility guidelines (WCAG 1.0, 1999) and US governm…
One tweet to make so much noise”
Celebrity activism, online celebrity, and online activism are all growing areas of research, but have received relatively little integration. This article argues that connected celebrity activism deploys social media to forge a variety of connections, enabling activist values to pervade a celebrity persona, reinforcing perceptions of authenticity and recirculating those values to disparate audiences. In the case of Deaf American actor Marlee Matl…
Blue-light emergency phones on campus
In recent years, movements such as #metoo, Slutwalk, and others have drawn attention to women’s experiences of a lack of safety in public, professional, and educational spaces. This article steps back to an earlier era of such activism, tracking the context in which blue-light emergency phones were installed on college and university campuses in the United States. I argue that blue-light phones constitute an infrastructure of feeling, drawing on …
Cyborg hoaxes
This article examines academic and popular examples of a “cyborg hoax”—an articulation of gender, dis/ability, and technology that is deceptive, reinforces an ideology of ability, and prevents users and scholars alike from seeing the value of disability for digital media cultures. The article uses cyborg theory, cyberculture studies, literature on online deception, and critical disability studies to argue that cyborg hoaxes are a dominant but ste…
Is there a sign for that? Media, American Sign Language interpretation, and the paradox of visibility
In the transitions between English and American Sign Language (ASL), linguistic and cultural translations are made visible through the embodied actions of interpreters. Recent years have seen a spike in attention to ASL interpreters, with mainstream media publishing stories on Lydia Callis and Holly Maniatty, among others. The very visibility of ASL interpretation poses a challenge to the invisibility of media access and the place of disability a…
Captions On, Off, on TV, Online
This article considers the current state of closed captioning for online videos, in the U.S. context. As media access is foundational to cultural citizenship, captions and similar accessibility features are essential to forming an inclusive participatory culture, online and off. Drawing on the history of television closed captioning and theatrical film captioning, it argues that captions and deafness have long been associated with the private, co…
Bridging Disability Divides
This paper takes a disability studies perspective on the history of the development of web content accessibility policies in the United States. Using procedural documents, popular press accounts, and policy documents themselves, augmented by personal interviews with key participants, I sketch a critical history of accessible web development. First, I argue that the world wide web consortium accessibility guidelines (WCAG 1.0, 1999) and US governm…
Captions On, Off, on TV, Online
This article considers the current state of closed captioning for online videos, in the U.S. context. As media access is foundational to cultural citizenship, captions and similar accessibility features are essential to forming an inclusive participatory culture, online and off. Drawing on the history of television closed captioning and theatrical film captioning, it argues that captions and deafness have long been associated with the private, co…
Blurred lines
Using the example of recent access problems caused by Apple’s iOS7 operating system for the iPhone, this paper interrogates the history and utility of the concept of “accessibility.” The term’s reliance on definitions of disability, particularly in the U.S. legal context, and the blurring nature of information technologies have made it increasingly difficult to differentiate between accessibility for people with disabilities and usability concern…
Is there a sign for that? Media, American Sign Language interpretation, and the paradox of visibility
In the transitions between English and American Sign Language (ASL), linguistic and cultural translations are made visible through the embodied actions of interpreters. Recent years have seen a spike in attention to ASL interpreters, with mainstream media publishing stories on Lydia Callis and Holly Maniatty, among others. The very visibility of ASL interpretation poses a challenge to the invisibility of media access and the place of disability a…
One tweet to make so much noise”
Celebrity activism, online celebrity, and online activism are all growing areas of research, but have received relatively little integration. This article argues that connected celebrity activism deploys social media to forge a variety of connections, enabling activist values to pervade a celebrity persona, reinforcing perceptions of authenticity and recirculating those values to disparate audiences. In the case of Deaf American actor Marlee Matl…
Cyborg hoaxes
This article examines academic and popular examples of a “cyborg hoax”—an articulation of gender, dis/ability, and technology that is deceptive, reinforces an ideology of ability, and prevents users and scholars alike from seeing the value of disability for digital media cultures. The article uses cyborg theory, cyberculture studies, literature on online deception, and critical disability studies to argue that cyborg hoaxes are a dominant but ste…
Accessing fan cultures
This chapter reviews the intersection of disability, online cultures, and media fandoms. It considers fan communities' history of disability inclusion, leading many fans with and without disabilities to work around technological barriers to find new paths to access. On blogs and social media, people with disabilities share experiences, develop a shared cultural space, and come to recognize a social model of disability or to participate in a disab…
Acculturations of disability
Disability Media Studies
Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of study, based in the rich traditions of media, cultural, and disability studies. Necessarily interdisciplinary and diverse, this collection weaves together work from scholars from a variety of disciplinary homes, into a broader conversation about exploring …
Blue-light emergency phones on campus
In recent years, movements such as #metoo, Slutwalk, and others have drawn attention to women’s experiences of a lack of safety in public, professional, and educational spaces. This article steps back to an earlier era of such activism, tracking the context in which blue-light emergency phones were installed on college and university campuses in the United States. I argue that blue-light phones constitute an infrastructure of feeling, drawing on …
Technologies, bureaucracy, and disaster
Rumo a um campo de Estudos de Mídia e Deficiência
Não se aplica
The care and feeding of 9-1-1 infrastructure
Emergency dispatchers who receive 9-1-1 calls and initiate various emergency response services perform media work that produces 9-1-1 as an infrastructural system for the public at large. This should be considered media work because it centres the interpretation of media content and navigation of multimedia systems. While a nontraditional site for the study of media work, emergency dispatch can be studied through methods of media industry and inf…
Three Vignettes in Pursuit of Accessible Pandemic Teaching
Disability Dates as Microgenre
This article performs a historical corrective, documenting representations of disability in popular U.S. television sitcoms of the 1990s. While these shows did not center disability, they often featured strikingly similar episodic narratives involving disability, using the framework of romantic dates with a main character. This article analyzes these episodes as a microgenre, referred to as “disability dates.” This microgenre represents a fleetin…
Computer Science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Disability studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)