Beth Haller
Biographic Data
| ID | 4909285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beth Haller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Haller |
| SIGNATURE | HALLER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6002-5654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
It’s weird for the people who aren’t used to it. And I want to make it less weird”
In this study, 19 bloggers from the blindness community discuss the meaning of blogging both for themselves and for other persons within this community. Bloggers with visual impairments, their relatives, and blog editors of blindness organizations are interviewed to answer the following questions: (1) What motivates people from the blindness community to still use blogs? (2) How does blogging enable the blindness community to shape their identity…
Advertising and Diversity
Rights and Representation
Canadian news coverage is reflecting and shaping an evolution of thought about how we must publicly account for animals’ roles in the disability rights movement. Through a textual analysis of 26 news media articles published between 2012 and 2017, this research demonstrates that the media play a key role in reporting on discrimination, yet media narratives about service animals and their owners too often fail to capture the complexity of policies…
The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media
Routledge Companion to Disability and Media
Consuming Image
This research investigated what people with disabilities think about media representations of their community and how mass media impact their disability identity. The study found that respondents (N = 359) think American media portray people with disabilities both negatively and positively. Perceived positive media representation of people with disabilities led to affirmation of their disability identity even when the media messages were perceive…
The Place of News Media Analysis within Canadian Disability Studies
This paper advocates for increased news media analysis within the disability studies field. Using a media research project about Canadian news media coverage of disability, this paper explores the shifting nature of recent disability coverage within Canadian newspapers between 2009 and 2010. As a group of researchers in Canada and the USA, who have undertaken numerous content analyses of news media representations of disability, we argue that a p…
Persuading Sanity
Media labeling versus the US disability community identity
This study examines disability terminology to explore how the news media frame cultural representations of the disability community. More specifically, the paper examines the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act on journalist's language choices about disability topics. A content analysis of news stories using disability terms in The Washington Post and The New York Times during the past decade was conducted. The paper illustrates that di…
Content analysis methodology for studying news and disability
The Case of FREAKS
The thirty-year ban on the 1932 circus horror film Freaks illustrates how deeply we share cultural notions about the disabled body and people with disabilities. The film's documentary-style exposé of images of “abnormal” bodies enjoying daily life behind the scenes of a circus sideshow greatly engaged movie audiences, but they were simultaneously outraged by its horror-genre treatment of the same bodies collectively avenging them-selves upon “nor…
Profitability, Diversity, and Disability Images in Advertising in the United States and Great Britain
No abstract available
Not Worth Keeping Alive? News framing of physician-assisted suicide in the United States and Great Britain
This essay seeks to analyse and understand the news framing of a major issue for disabled people in the late twentieth century - physician-assisted suicide. We argue that news frames within the coverage of physician-assisted suicide present narratives that ignore or devalue disability issues. The US disability rights movement has created an oppositional frame to mainstream media presentations, arguing that physician-assisted suicide has been "pre…
The News of Inclusive Education
This paper investigates a nationally publicized case in the debate over the best method of educating millions of children with severe disabilities. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, this paper analyses 4 years of the extensive media coverage of the legal battles of Mark Hartmann’s family. The 11-year-old’s parents took the Loudoun County, VA, Board of Education to court to reinstate their autistic son in a regular classroom. Much media attention…
The Misfit and Muscular Dystrophy
(1994). The Misfit and Muscular Dystrophy. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 141-149
Media labeling versus the US disability community identity
This study examines disability terminology to explore how the news media frame cultural representations of the disability community. More specifically, the paper examines the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act on journalist's language choices about disability topics. A content analysis of news stories using disability terms in The Washington Post and The New York Times during the past decade was conducted. The paper illustrates that di…
The Place of News Media Analysis within Canadian Disability Studies
This paper advocates for increased news media analysis within the disability studies field. Using a media research project about Canadian news media coverage of disability, this paper explores the shifting nature of recent disability coverage within Canadian newspapers between 2009 and 2010. As a group of researchers in Canada and the USA, who have undertaken numerous content analyses of news media representations of disability, we argue that a p…
The News of Inclusive Education
This paper investigates a nationally publicized case in the debate over the best method of educating millions of children with severe disabilities. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, this paper analyses 4 years of the extensive media coverage of the legal battles of Mark Hartmann’s family. The 11-year-old’s parents took the Loudoun County, VA, Board of Education to court to reinstate their autistic son in a regular classroom. Much media attention…
It’s weird for the people who aren’t used to it. And I want to make it less weird”
In this study, 19 bloggers from the blindness community discuss the meaning of blogging both for themselves and for other persons within this community. Bloggers with visual impairments, their relatives, and blog editors of blindness organizations are interviewed to answer the following questions: (1) What motivates people from the blindness community to still use blogs? (2) How does blogging enable the blindness community to shape their identity…
Not Worth Keeping Alive? News framing of physician-assisted suicide in the United States and Great Britain
This essay seeks to analyse and understand the news framing of a major issue for disabled people in the late twentieth century - physician-assisted suicide. We argue that news frames within the coverage of physician-assisted suicide present narratives that ignore or devalue disability issues. The US disability rights movement has created an oppositional frame to mainstream media presentations, arguing that physician-assisted suicide has been "pre…
The Misfit and Muscular Dystrophy
(1994). The Misfit and Muscular Dystrophy. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 141-149
Profitability, Diversity, and Disability Images in Advertising in the United States and Great Britain
No abstract available
Not Worth Keeping Alive? News framing of physician-assisted suicide in the United States and Great Britain
This essay seeks to analyse and understand the news framing of a major issue for disabled people in the late twentieth century - physician-assisted suicide. We argue that news frames within the coverage of physician-assisted suicide present narratives that ignore or devalue disability issues. The US disability rights movement has created an oppositional frame to mainstream media presentations, arguing that physician-assisted suicide has been "pre…
The News of Inclusive Education
This paper investigates a nationally publicized case in the debate over the best method of educating millions of children with severe disabilities. Using Fisher’s narrative paradigm, this paper analyses 4 years of the extensive media coverage of the legal battles of Mark Hartmann’s family. The 11-year-old’s parents took the Loudoun County, VA, Board of Education to court to reinstate their autistic son in a regular classroom. Much media attention…
The Case of FREAKS
The thirty-year ban on the 1932 circus horror film Freaks illustrates how deeply we share cultural notions about the disabled body and people with disabilities. The film's documentary-style exposé of images of “abnormal” bodies enjoying daily life behind the scenes of a circus sideshow greatly engaged movie audiences, but they were simultaneously outraged by its horror-genre treatment of the same bodies collectively avenging them-selves upon “nor…
Content analysis methodology for studying news and disability
Persuading Sanity
Media labeling versus the US disability community identity
This study examines disability terminology to explore how the news media frame cultural representations of the disability community. More specifically, the paper examines the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act on journalist's language choices about disability topics. A content analysis of news stories using disability terms in The Washington Post and The New York Times during the past decade was conducted. The paper illustrates that di…
The Place of News Media Analysis within Canadian Disability Studies
This paper advocates for increased news media analysis within the disability studies field. Using a media research project about Canadian news media coverage of disability, this paper explores the shifting nature of recent disability coverage within Canadian newspapers between 2009 and 2010. As a group of researchers in Canada and the USA, who have undertaken numerous content analyses of news media representations of disability, we argue that a p…
Consuming Image
This research investigated what people with disabilities think about media representations of their community and how mass media impact their disability identity. The study found that respondents (N = 359) think American media portray people with disabilities both negatively and positively. Perceived positive media representation of people with disabilities led to affirmation of their disability identity even when the media messages were perceive…
The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media
Routledge Companion to Disability and Media
Rights and Representation
Canadian news coverage is reflecting and shaping an evolution of thought about how we must publicly account for animals’ roles in the disability rights movement. Through a textual analysis of 26 news media articles published between 2012 and 2017, this research demonstrates that the media play a key role in reporting on discrimination, yet media narratives about service animals and their owners too often fail to capture the complexity of policies…
Advertising and Diversity
It’s weird for the people who aren’t used to it. And I want to make it less weird”
In this study, 19 bloggers from the blindness community discuss the meaning of blogging both for themselves and for other persons within this community. Bloggers with visual impairments, their relatives, and blog editors of blindness organizations are interviewed to answer the following questions: (1) What motivates people from the blindness community to still use blogs? (2) How does blogging enable the blindness community to shape their identity…
Sociology (10 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Narrative (4 works)