Anna Bramwell-Dicks (University of York), Disability Representation Across (some of) the Creative Industries

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For this week's Research Seminar, please join Anna Bramwell-Dicks (University of York), Disability Representation Across (some of) the Creative Industries.

Disability representation in entertainment media has been a topic of interest to critical disability and media scholars for many years. In this talk, Dr Bramwell-Dicks will explore how disabled people are represented by the creative industries, by exploring their portrayal within film and television, theatre, video games and immersive media, specifically. She will pose some possible explanations as to why some areas of the creative industries seem to be achieving better disability representation than others. She will also talk about her current research aiming to understand how representation within new interactive, immersive media formats differs to the traditional screen-based media. And, most importantly, how disabled people can be more appropriately represented across all the creative industries in the future.

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Meeting ID: 967 9721 8269

Passcode: 878342

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Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks is lecturer of Interactive Media based in the School of Arts & Creative Technologies at the University of York. Her interdisciplinary research interests sit at the intersection of disability studies, media and computing. In 2021, she took up a 2-year research fellowship funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the XR Stories Creative Cluster where she began the Disability Representation in Past, Present and Future Stories project. In addition she has worked on both the i2web and SoundTact accessibility projects. Prior to focusing on disability research she completed her PhD also at the University of York in Computer Science with a thesis Music While You Work: The Effect of Music on Typing Performance and Experience.