Visual Discourses of Disability by Pei Soo Ang, Siang Lee Yeo - 9781041156345

Visual Discourses of DisabilityInterpreting Press Images of Disability from a Discourse-Semiotic Perspective\nAuthor(s): Pei Soo Ang, Siang Lee Yeo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041156345, 978-1041156345\nSynopsis\nThis book demonstrates how the visual elements within news images of disability orchestrate and evoke social meanings about disability and disabled persons. It creates a Visual Discourses of Disability (ViDD) framework to delineate what and how the visualization of disability communicates ideas and attitudes, and how elements in an image are configured to frame the perspective of disability.\n\nThese configurations can be placed on a continuum, from perspectivizing to personizing. In addition, the cumulative attitudinal meanings in a news image can be placed on another continuum from enabling to disabling. Both can be combined as opposing axes to demonstrate the social implications of empowering, ad.