The Disabled, the Media, and the Information Age - Hardcover

by Jack a. Nelson (Editor)

How have disabled Americans been portrayed by the media through the years and how are images and the role of the handicapped changing? Jack Nelson and a series of experts in communication and the disabled offer an easy-to-read overview of key issues, continuing problems, new opportunities, and new technological tools. Professionals and teachers in communication, along with experts and general readers interested in public policy and social issues, will find this short study, with its illustrations, descriptions and lists of organizations and its bibliographical materials, a handy reference.

Author Biography

JACK A. NELSON, Associate Professor, Department of Communications, Brigham Young University, has written at length and broadly in the field of communications and the humanities and in history. He has taught at the California State University at Humboldt and the University of Utah. He has worked as a reported for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City and since 1981 has served as part-time Utah editor for Western Outdoors Magazine. His doctorate is from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He has been a paraplegic since the age of 17.