What We Aren’t Seeing Exclusionary Practices in Visual Media
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CH19. What We Aren’t Seeing.pdf
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Author(s)
Smith, Kai Alexis
Malinowski, Christine
Date Issued
January 3, 2024
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ACRL
Citation
Smith, K. A., & Malinowski, C. (2024). What We Aren’t Seeing Exclusionary Practices in Visual Media. In Unframing the Visual: Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaces | ALA Store (2023951570; p. 327-345). ACRL. https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/unframing-visual-visual-literacy-pedagogy-academic-libraries-and-information-spaces
Abstract
Disability in visual culture is arguably flawed, with ideas and concepts created and
accepted in the vacuum of ableist, capitalist environments. “Disability has always been
part of the human condition,” write art historians Keri Watson and Jo Mann. “Through-
out history, people with disabilities have often served as visual and cultural objects,
rather than as active participants in and creators of culture and media.”1 Mimi Ọnụọha,
Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren Klein, and other scholars establish that visual media have
the power to communicate injustices, evoke uncomfortably necessary conversations, and
raise the volume on silenced voices.2 Recent scholarship and strategies have focused on
visual media under the lens of misinformation and misrepresentation with the aim of
training visual consumers’ palates to distinguish propaganda from critical discourse.3
Missing from this mainstream dialogue is that visuals can be equally exclusionary and
harmful to persons with disabilities.
Information educators play a role in disrupting the assumed perceptions around
disability and can challenge situations where common remediations fall short, where
barriers are introduced, and where damaging stereotypes are perpetuated.
Subjects
Disability
Visual Literary
Visual culture
Visual Media
Exclusion
Accessible design
Critical Race Theory
Ableism
Inclusive design
Intersectionality
Disability Justice
Universal Design for Learning
ACRL Framework for Visual Literacy
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries
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