Re-presenting the Paralympics
(Contested) Philosophies, Production Practices and the Hypervisibility of Disability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11267232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Pullen (0000-0001-8862-6275, Bournemouth University, corresponding author), Daniel Jackson (0000-0002-8833-9476, Bournemouth University), Michael Silk (0000-0002-7549-0919, Bournemouth University), Richard Scullion (Bournemouth University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 465-481 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443718799399 |
| OpenAlex | W2890209538 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 45 |
Studies that have engaged parasport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens, have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games as the source of cultural critique. We know far less about the decisions taken inside Paralympic broadcasters that have led to such representations. In this study – based on interviews with senior production and promotion staff at the United Kingdom’s Paralympic broadcaster, Channel 4 – we provide the first detailed examination of mediated parasport from this vantage point. We explore the use of promotional devices such as athletes’ backstories – the ‘Hollywood treatment’ – to both hook audiences and serve as a vehicle for achieving its social enterprise mandate to change public attitudes towards disability. In so doing, we reveal myriad tensions that coalesce around representing the Paralympics, with respect to the efforts made to balance the competing goals of key stakeholders and a stated desire to make the Paralympics both a commercial and socially progressive success
Advertising · Business · Hollywood · Mandate · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Public relations · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · History · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Changing Perceptions Through Paralympic Media
How do Iranian news agencies mis/represent disability
Media Coverage of the Paralympics
Reading (Readings of) UK Channel 4’s 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Advertisements
Supercrip in Motion
Rapid Evidence Analysis of Diversity in UK Public Service Television
Sposoby narracji i budowania wizerunku sportowców z niepełnosprawnościami podczas igrzysk paraolimpijskich. Od Londynu 2012 do Pekinu 2022
Covering disability in Italian journalism. Language, practices and perspectives in mainstream and alternative media
The news production process in the Brazilian journalistic coverage of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games
Disability Narratives in Sports Communication
Enactments of Integrated, Disability-Inclusive Sport Policy by Sporting Organizations
Repurposing the (Super)Crip
Individuals’ Motivations and Engagement With Paralympic Content on Social Media
Borrowing Brands to Create a Brand
Media Framing of the International Paralympic Committee’s WeThe15 Disability Inclusion Campaign During Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022
Informing Future Paralympic Media Approaches
(Re-)presenting the Paralympics
Golden Girls, National Heroes and Resilient Champions
Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa
New Heights” in Storytelling
Dis/Ability Journalism in Italy
Paralympics as a Tool for Communication for Social Change
Third era’ parasport athletes and athlete ‘volunteer’ appearances (AVAs)
Paralympic Broadcasting and Social Change
Paralympic cripvertising
The performative body of disabled women
Rai, public service media, and sport
Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism
Communication for Localisation
Watching disability
Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour
New Zealand's princess of the pool
Aleijar as antropologias a partir das mediações da deficiência
Handbook of qualitative research
The Biopolitics of Disability
The (1n)Visibility of DisAbility
The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Scroungers and Superhumans
Cultural Studies in Question
The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement
The Body & Society
Bread, butter and gravy
Women Play Sport, But Not on TV
Research in Communication, Disability, and Sport
Reflections on Communication and Sport
Methodological Dilemmas and Opportunities in Interviewing Organizational Elites
Reporting disability in the age of austerity
Us and them
(Dis)empowering Paralympic histories
Defending the Social Model
Neoliberalism, postsocialism, disability
Networks
Who’s In and Who Is Out? Legitimate Bodies Within the Paralympic Games
An Ideal Misconstrued
Television, technology and creativity in the production of a sports mega event
Bangsa Malaysia’
All the world's a stage, screen or magazine
The Practice of Cultural Studies
Reflections on interviewing elites
Disability and the Media
Social sustainability of non-mega sport events in a global world1
The Iron Cage Revisited
Attitudes towards disabilities in a multicultural society
What Is Cultural Studies Anyway
Making Sense of Qualitative Data
Interviewing Elites
Doing the brand
Disability, work, and welfare
Disability and the Dedicated Wheelchair Athlete
Sport, Television, Interpretation, and Practice Reconsidered
The (In)validity of Supercrip Representation of Paralympian Athletes
Cyborg and Supercrip
Institutional Isomorphism Revisited
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |