Visual Discourses of Disability: Interpreting Press Images of Disability from a Discourse-Semiotic Perspective

This 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.

These configurations can be placed on a continuum, from perspectivizing to personizing. In addition, ...