La representación mediática del deportista con discapacidad en el reportaje televisivo. Informe Semanal, un estudio de caso
The coverage of the 2008 Paralympic Games in the Spanish media appears almost exclusively linked to the values associated with the sporting world, according to a previous study. The Paralympic athletes are not disabled. Neither lay nor sensationalism gave a stereotyping. Because of the particularity of the event, also claims and problems disappear. This is where sports information matter the outcome, the successes, the medals. To deepen understanding of television representation of athletes with disabilities, is now being studied television information outside the dynamic daily news coverage of the Games. Analysis of other pieces, reports, has uncovered brands aimed at stereotyping related to the semantic field of journalism, one that is made visible through the use of resources that promote emotion and spectacle. Emergen life stories and intimate details. The players show great self-esteem and a positive self-identity to get away from the usual social representations of disability.
Beyond the Aww Factor: Human Interest Profiles of Paralympians and the Media Navigation of Physical Difference and Social Stigma
People with disability negotiate a complex identity that involves both physical difference and social stigma. Excluded from other identity-based areas of inquiry, and encouraged to pass as unimpaired by human rights models (see the ability), media representations purporting to offer empowerment may actually perpetuate the biomedical model of disability as it discursively situates disability as deficit. Drawing on work undertaken by Schell and Duncan (1999) this article critically examines current affairs programming (60 Minutes and Australian Story) leading up to the 2008 Paralympics Games to highlight the role the media plays in reflecting and reinforcing social disablement. I will likewise explore the way aspects of these profiles, which foreground the relevance of impairment and disability to the lives of people with disability, potentially advance social understandings of disability.
Scales for measuring subjective distance in children and adults in a large open field.
Summary Five age levels (6, 8, 10, 12 years, and adults, N = 127) estimated distance in a large open field by the fractionation method. Scales for subjective distance were derived for each group. It was found that (a) the adults differed from all the other groups, (b) the 12-year-olds differed from the six-year-olds, (c) all the exponents were smaller than 1, (d) perceived distance in a large open field was characterized by underconstancy, and (e) underconstancy was greater for the younger subjects.