Media & Disability Interest Group
2005 Research Papers
“’Fat, Furious, and Forever Wanting Food:’ Newspaper
Depictions of Persons with Prader-Willi Syndrome, 2000-2005,” Karen
Ogata Jones
& Margaret R. Smith, Clemson
University
“Who’s Considered Normal? Exploring 19th Century
Magazine Coverage about People with Disabilities,” Nicole Richardson, University of Georgia
* “Stories of Victims or Stories of Survivors? A Framing
Analysis of the News Media Coverage of Burn Injuries,” Nicole Elise
Smith,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Towards Making Images Accessible: Categorizing Image Use in
American Online Newspapers,” Jin Xu, Winona State
University
* Winner of the John S. Clogston Memorial
Award for Top
Student Paper.
