Michael S. Jeffress is a full professor at Medical University of the Americas in Nevis, West Indies. He has been involved in disability advocacy work since the late- 1990s, after his son was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Critical Perspectives on Disability Representation and Inclusion in Media is his fourth edited volume in Routledge’s Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Series, in addition to his monograph Communication, Sport and Disability: The Case of Power Soccer published in 2015.

• Section 1: Disability in Media: Television and Film Perspectives 1.A Street for Everyone: Sesame Street’s Pioneering Commitment to Educating Children with Disabilities through Inclusive Television Programming and Educational Advocacy 2.Moving Away from Rain Man: Fictional Representation of Autism in Contemporary Audiovisual Media in the U.S. 3.“Whale, Whale!” (Re)framing and (Dis)abling an Albino Villain in Black Lightning 4.The Incompatibility of Disability in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 5.Disability Representation in Love on the Spectrum and Its Impact on Audience Perceptions 6.Disability in Advertising: A Case Study of Super Bowl Advertisements between 2020 and 2024 7.Emerging Trends in Mediated Depictions of d/Deafness in Narrative Film from 2014-2024 8.Representation that Gets Rewarded: Disability Portrayals in Academy Award Recognized Films Section 2: Disability in Media: Online Perspectives 9.Rolling Over the Line: A Qualitative Analysis of Joe Eurell's Naturally Lazy 10.Deconstructing Digital Discourses: Critical Disability Studies Analysis of Social Media Posts by Parents of Autistic Children 11.Trolls and Allies: A Qualitative Analysis of the Comment Sections of Instagram Influencers in Interabled Relationships Section 3: Disability in Media: International Perspectives 12.Deaf, Not Silent: Sound and Savagery in Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s The Tribe [ПЛЕМ’Я] 13.Address an absence: To know, understand and co-construct digital access in Italy 14.A Critical Examination of Disability-Inclusive Advertisements in Hyundai’s Samarth Campaign 15.The Representation of Disability in Contemporary Japanese Novels and the Possibility of a Post-Narrative Prosthesis: A Textual Analysis of Reader Reviews

Michael S. Jeffress is a full professor at Medical University of the Americas in Nevis, West Indies. He has been involved in disability advocacy work since the late- 1990s, after his son was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Critical Perspectives on Disability Representation and Inclusion in Media is his fourth edited volume in Routledge’s Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Series, in addition to his monograph Communication, Sport and Disability: The Case of Power Soccer published in 2015.

• Section 1: Disability in Media: Television and Film Perspectives 1.A Street for Everyone: Sesame Street’s Pioneering Commitment to Educating Children with Disabilities through Inclusive Television Programming and Educational Advocacy 2.Moving Away from Rain Man: Fictional Representation of Autism in Contemporary Audiovisual Media in the U.S. 3.“Whale, Whale!” (Re)framing and (Dis)abling an Albino Villain in Black Lightning 4.The Incompatibility of Disability in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 5.Disability Representation in Love on the Spectrum and Its Impact on Audience Perceptions 6.Disability in Advertising: A Case Study of Super Bowl Advertisements between 2020 and 2024 7.Emerging Trends in Mediated Depictions of d/Deafness in Narrative Film from 2014-2024 8.Representation that Gets Rewarded: Disability Portrayals in Academy Award Recognized Films Section 2: Disability in Media: Online Perspectives 9.Rolling Over the Line: A Qualitative Analysis of Joe Eurell's Naturally Lazy 10.Deconstructing Digital Discourses: Critical Disability Studies Analysis of Social Media Posts by Parents of Autistic Children 11.Trolls and Allies: A Qualitative Analysis of the Comment Sections of Instagram Influencers in Interabled Relationships Section 3: Disability in Media: International Perspectives 12.Deaf, Not Silent: Sound and Savagery in Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s The Tribe [ПЛЕМ’Я] 13.Address an absence: To know, understand and co-construct digital access in Italy 14.A Critical Examination of Disability-Inclusive Advertisements in Hyundai’s Samarth Campaign 15.The Representation of Disability in Contemporary Japanese Novels and the Possibility of a Post-Narrative Prosthesis: A Textual Analysis of Reader Reviews