Publications: Ellis, Kathleen

2016

Ellis, K. and Kent, M. (Eds) (2016) Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group, London.

Ellis, K. and Goggin, G. (2016) Disability, Locative Media, and Complex Ubiquity. In: Ekman, U., Bolter, J.D., Díaz, L., Søndergaard, M. and Engberg, M., (eds.) Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 272-287.

Kent, M., Ellis, K., Zhang, H. and Xu, J. (2016) Using social media to advance the social rights of people with disability in China: The Beijing One Plus One Disabled Persons’ Cultural Development Centre. In: Kent, M. and Ellis, K., (eds.) Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 318-332.

Ellis, K., Kent, M. and Locke, K. (2016) Video on Demand for People with Disability: Traversing Terrestrial Borders. M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, 19 (5).

Ellis, K. (2016) #socialconversations: Disability representation and audio description on Marvel’s Daredevil. In: Ellis, K. and Kent, M., (eds.) Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 146-260.

2015

Ellis, K. and Kent, M. (2015) Accessible television: The new frontier in disability media studies brings together industry innovation, government legislation and online activism. First Monday, 20 (9).

Ellis, K. and Goggin, G. (2015) Disability Media Participation: Opportunities, obstacles and politics. Media International Australia, 154 (1). pp. 78-88.

Ellis, K. (2015) Disability and Popular Culture: Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group.

Ellis, K. (2015) Disability in television crime drama: Transgression and access. The Journal of Popular Television, 3 (2). pp. 243-259.

Ellis, K., Goggin, G. and Kent, M. (2015) Disability’s digital frictions: Activism, technology, and politics. The Fibreculture Journal (26). pp. 7-31.

Kent, M. and Ellis, K. (2015) Live music in a virtual world. In: Jones, A.C. and Bennett, R.J., (eds.) The Digital Evolution of Live Music. Chandos Publishing, pp. 85-98.

Ellis, K. (2015) Netflix closed captions offer an accessible model for the streaming video industry, but what about audio description? Communication, Politics & Culture, 47 (3). pp. 3-20.

Kent, M. and Ellis, K. (2015) People with disability and new disaster communications: access and the social media mash-up. Disability & Society, 30 (3). pp. 419-431.

Ellis, K. (2015) A democratization of access: From clinical to consumer models of communication for people with disabilities. In: Hartley, J. and Qu, W., (eds.) Re-Orientation — Trans-cultural, Trans-lingual and Trans-media Studies in Narrative, Language, Identity and Knowledge. Fudan University Press, pp. 179-195.

2014

Ellis, K. (2014) Digital television flexibility: A survey of Australians with disability. Media International Australia, 150 (1). pp. 96-105.

Ellis, K. and Goggin, G. (2014) Disability and social media. In: Hunsinger, J. and Senft, T.M., (eds.) The Social Media Handbook. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 126-179.

Rodan, D., Ellis, K. and Lebeck, P. (2014) Disability, obesity and ageing: Popular media identifications. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Abingdon, Oxon.

Ellis, K. and Kent, M. (2014) Facebook, disability and higher education: Accessing the digital campus. In: Kent, M. and Leaver, T., (eds.) An Education in Facebook? Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 196-204.

Ellis, K. (2014) Television's transition to the internet: Disability accessibility and Broadband-Based TV in Australia. Media International Australia, 153 (1). pp. 53-63.

Ellis, K. (2014) The Voice Australia (2012): Disability, social media and collective intelligence. Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, 28 (4). pp. 482-494.

2013

Ellis, K. (2013) Book Review: Transgressive bodies: Representations in film and popular culture, edited by Niall Richardson, Surrey and Burlington, Ashgate, 2010, 237 pp., ISBN 9780754676225 (hbk). Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, 27 (2). pp. 323-325.

Ellis, K. (2013) Breakdown is built into It: A Politics of resilience in a disabling world. M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, 16 (5).

Ellis, K. (2013) "This Isn’t Something I can Fake": The discourse of disability surrounding Glee! In: Mogk, M., (ed.) Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television. McFarland, pp. 244-254.

2012

Ellis, K. (2012) Because of rather than in spite of: ‘Friday Night Lights’ important cultural work of intersecting disability and masculinity. IM: Interactive Media, 8 .

Ellis, K. (2012) Complicating a rudimentary list of characteristics: Communicating disability with down syndrome dolls. M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, 15 (5).

Ellis, K. (2012) It means inclusion: A creative approach to disability and telecommunications policy in Australia. Telecommunications Journal of Australia, 62 (2). 27.1-27.13.

Ellis, K. (2012) Live fast, die young, become immortal. In: Brabazon, T., (ed.) Digital dialogues and community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets. Woodhead Publishing Limited incorporating Chandos Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 201-208.

Ellis, K. (2012) New media as a powerful ally in the representation of mental illness: YouTube, resistance and change. In: Rubin, L.C., (ed.) Mental Illness and Popular Media: essays on the Representation of Disorders. McFarland & Co, Jefferson, N.C., pp. 184-201.

Ellis, K. (2012) Taste is the enemy of creativity: disability, YouTube and a new language. In: Brabazon, T., (ed.) Digital dialogues and community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets. Woodhead Publishing Limited incorporating Chandos Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 121-134.

2011

Ellis, K. and Kent, M. (2011) Disability and new media. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, U.S.A.

Ellis, K. (2011) Dolls with disabilities: Playing with diversity. In: Norris, N., (ed.) Unionist Popular Culture and Rolls of Honour in the North of Ireland During The First World War: A Collection of Diverse Essays in Popular Culture. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York.

Ellis, K. (2011) Embracing learners with disability: Web 2.0, access and insight. Telecommunications Journal of Australia, 61 (2).

2010

Ellis, K. (2010) Autism & aspergers in popular Australian cinema post 2000. Disability Studies Quarterly, 30 (1).

Ellis, K. (2010) Barbie helps shed light on diversity. PS News, 25 January 2010 .

Ellis, K. (2010) Be who you want to be: the philosophy of facebook and the construction of identity. Australian Screen Education Online, 59 .

Ellis, K. (2010) Casting off the hyperbole of disabling society: Barbie as a political icon. ON LINE opinion: Australia's e-journal of social and political debate, 21 January 2010 .

Kent, M. and Ellis, K. (2010) Community Accessibility: Tweeters take responsibility for an accessible web 2.0. Fast Capitalism, 7 (1).

Ellis, K. (2010) Disability in Australian cinema: Cultural anxiety to diversity. In: Goldsmith, B. and Lealand, G., (eds.) Directory of World Cinema: Australian and New Zealand. Intellect Books, Bristol, UK, pp. 66-77.

Ellis, K. (2010) Disrupting strength, power, and perfect bodies: Disability as narrative prosthesis in 1990s Australian national cinema. Nebula, 7 (1/2). pp. 98-107.

Ellis, K. (2010) Feeling tired of emotional. The Australian, 5 March 2010 . p. 20.

Ellis, K. (2010) Hen's night bunny feminism. ON LINE opinion: Australia's e-journal of social and political debate, 15 February 2010 .

Ellis, K. (2010) I premiered my first film in an inaccessible cinema: Changing the social landscape through disability feminist activism and film. In: Findley, L. and Stringer, E., (eds.) Beyond burning bras: Feminism activism for everyone. Praeger, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.

Ellis, K. (2010) Malice in wonderland of bunnies. The Australian, 25 January 2010 . p. 16.

Ellis, K. (2010) My writing. Shakespeare's Sister, 19 January 2010 .

Ellis, K. (2010) [P]eople often judged by what they feared or knew existed in themselves. In: O'Reilly, N., (ed.) Postcolonial issues in Australian literature. Cambria press, Amherst, New York, pp. 203-218.

Ellis, K. (2010) Review of Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American culture. Southwest Journal of Cultures, Spring Post 1 .

Ellis, K. (2010) Review of The tube has spoken: reality TV and history. Southwest Journal of Cultures: an interdisciplinary venue for culture studies and scholarly book reviews, Spring Post 1 .

Ellis, K. (2010) Review: Contours of ableism: The production of disability and abledness. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 24 (4). pp. 638-640.

Ellis, K. and Kent, M. (2010) Tweeters take responsibility for an accessible web 2.0. Fast Capitalism, 7 (1).

Ellis, K. (2010) A purposeful rebuilding: Youtube, representation, accessibility and the socio-political space of disability. Telecommunications Journal of Australia, 60 (2). 21.1-21.12.

2009

Ellis, K. (2009) Ass-kicked by fate: Existential motifs in The Maltese Falcon. Australian Screen Education Online, 53 .

Ellis, K. (2009) Beyond the Aww factor: Human interest profiles of paralympians and the media navigation of physical difference and social stigma. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 19 . pp. 23-36.

Kent, M. and Ellis, K. (2009) Online virtual communities and disability. In: Centre for Everyday Life Symposium: Media technologies community and everyday life, 2 September 2009, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A

Kent, M. and Ellis, K. (2009) Your avatar looks normal to me. In: Disability Studies Conference 2009, 26 - 27 June 2009, UNSW, Sydney

Ellis, K. (2009) A quest through chaos: my narrative of illness and recovery. Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies, 26 .

2008

Ellis, K. and Kent, M. (2008) Disability and Web 2.0: Opportunity lost? In: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference (CSAA) 2008, 6 - 9 December 2008, Kalgoorlie, W.A

Ellis, K. (2008) Disabling diversity: The social construction of disability in 1990s Australian national cinema. VDM Verlag, Saarbrucken, Germany.

Ellis, K. (2008) Media and technology. In: Disability, Democracy, Media & Listening Workshop (as part of the Listening Project), 10 October 2008, University of Technology Sydney, N.S.W

Ellis, K. and Kent, M. (2008) iTunes is pretty (useless) when you're blind: Digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, 11 (3).

2007

Ellis, K. (2007) Disability as visual shorthand: Theme and style in Australian cinema in the 1990s. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, 152 . pp. 135-139.

Ellis, K. (2007) Isolation and companionship: Disability in Australian (Post) colonial cinema. Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies, 4 . pp. 184-198.

2006

Ellis, K. (2006) Rehabilitating 1990s Australian national cinema. Senses of Cinema (Australian Cinema), 39 .

Ellis, K. (2006) Review of The remasculinization of Korean cinema. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 13 .

Ellis, K. (2006) Unity verses diversity, the social disablement of UnAustralian national cinema during the 1990s. In: UNAUSTRALlA The Cultural Studies Association of Australasia's Annual Conference, 6 - 8 December 2006, Canberra, ACT, Australia

2004

Ellis, K. (2004) At least I'm better off than you: Disability diversity in Australian cinema. In: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference: Everyday Transformations: The Twenty-First Century Quotidian, 9 - 11 December 2004, Murdoch University, Murdoch, W.A

Ellis, Kathleen (2004) You look normal to me: the social construction of disability in Australian national cinema in the 1990s. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.

2003

Ellis, K. (2003) Reinforcing the stigma - The representation of disability in Gattaca. Australian Screen Education Online, 31 . pp. 111-114.

2002

Ellis, K. (2002) Bad parenting a paranoia of wider society. In: The Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand 11th Biennial Conference, 28 November - 3rd December 2002, Flinders University, Adelaide

Ellis, K. (2002) Disability and the undead downunder. In: Antipodean Gothic Conference: Manifestations of the Gothic in Australian and New Zealand Cultures, December 2002, Massey University, Auckland

Ellis, K. (2002) New world, old habits: Patriarchal ideology in Star Wars: A new hope. Australian Screen Education Online, 30 . pp. 135-138.

Ellis, K. (2002) Why isn't there any wheelchair access at the Logies? Portraying disability and Australian-ness in Australia films'. In: AALS 17th Annual Conference: Narrative in Australian fiction and cinema, April 2002, Emporio State University, Kansas City, Missouri