
Disability, the Media and the Paralympic Games
This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK’s publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 network, coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities.
It sheds important new light on our understanding of media production and its complex interactions with sport and wider society. Drawing on ...
This book focuses on the ground-breaking coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games by the UK’s publicly owned but commercially funded Channel 4 network, coverage which seemed to deliver a transformational shift in attitudes towards people with disabilities.
It sheds important new light on our understanding of media production and its complex interactions with sport and wider society. Drawing on ...