Television in General

I'm excited to announced that I finally had the opportunity to publish a peer-reviewed article about scripted TV, a real career highlight! A lot of my work over the past decade has looked at disability in news media. Writing about TV like this is the culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do in academic spaces and beyond. The whole special issue,  Autism_Media_Social Justice , is  amazing and well worth your time. This piece was co-authored with my colleagues Kelly Harding and M. Ariel Cascio. You can read the full open access article here:  https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/2702 Abstract: "Media reflect and affect social understandings, beliefs, and values on many topics, including the lives of autistic and disabled people. Media analysis has garnered attention in the field of disability studies, which some scholars and activists consider a promising approach to discussing the experiences of – and for promoting social justice for – auti...

Hi everyone! Clearly, I haven't posted here in years - although I did just find an unpublished draft from late 2012 about The Newsroom that I might revisit. Today though, I'm excited to share with you an blog post I co-wrote in line with my recent academic work. It's an article looking at the TV show Speechless through the lens of disability studies and neuroethics. Please go check out the whole thing over on the Neuroethics blog: "Television can be an important medium through which to explore cultural conceptions of complex topics like disability – a topic tackled by Speechless, a single-camera family sitcom. Speechless tells the story of JJ DiMeo, a young man with cerebral palsy (CP) portrayed by Micah Fowler, who himself has CP. The show focuses on JJ’s daily life as well as the experiences of his parents and siblings. JJ’s aide, an African-American man named Kenneth, voices for JJ, as the latter uses a head-mounted laser pointer to indicate words and letters on...