Abstract

When it comes to disability, powerful ideas are articulated in and circulated through the media. Through framing analysis, this study examines how the media portray disability and people with disabilities in a sample of Flemish print news and entertainment magazines. The study aims to understand the dominant and alternative frames related to disability by scrutinising which aspects of reality are selected, rejected, emphasised or modified in the production of a media text. Participatory analysis of articles from 16 Belgian magazines over one year (n = 184) reveals a number of frames and counter-frames. Results indicate that the media tend to perpetuate and reinforce the stigma of those categorised as disabled as ‘Other’ and disability as one of the most frightful obstructions in one’s life, while counter-frames underlining the notion of persons with disabilities being different but not ‘abnormal’ are relatively absent.

• Points of interest

• This study offers insights into dominant and alternative frames related to disability in the Flemish print media. Frames can be described as the angles or perspectives from which a media story is told.

• Media texts from different media magazines were analysed by means of a framing analysis.

• The research reported here was ‘inclusive’ research, thereby combining and equally valuing experiential knowledge as well as academic knowledge from different contexts and disciplines.

• In this article, an inventory of dominant frames was developed, together with alternative counter-frames that may offer ‘new’ perspectives regarding disability.

• This type of research covers academic research in the intersecting fields of Media Studies and Disability Studies, and makes a contribution on both an empirical and a methodological level.

摘要

当谈到残疾时，强有力的想法在媒体中得到表达和传播。通过框架分析，本研究考察了媒体如何在佛兰德印刷新闻和娱乐杂志样本中描绘残疾和残疾人。该研究旨在通过审查在媒体文本的制作中选择、拒绝、强调或修改现实的哪些方面来了解与残疾相关的主要和替代框架。参与式分析 16 份比利时杂志一年内的文章（n = 184) 揭示了许多帧和反帧。结果表明，媒体倾向于延续和强化将残疾人归类为“其他”的污名，并将残疾视为生活中最可怕的障碍之一，而反框架强调残疾人的概念是不同的，但不是“异常'相对不存在。

• 兴趣点

• 这项研究提供了对佛兰芒印刷媒体中与残疾相关的主要和替代框架的见解。框架可以描述为讲述媒体故事的角度或视角。

• 通过框架分析对来自不同媒体杂志的媒体文本进行了分析。

• 这里报告的研究是“包容性”研究，从而结合并同等重视来自不同背景和学科的经验知识以及学术知识。

• 在本文中，开发了主要框架清单，以及可能提供有关残疾的“新”观点的替代反框架。

• 这种类型的研究涵盖了媒体研究和残疾研究交叉领域的学术研究，并在经验和方法层面做出了贡献。