@InProceedings{2015ACTN3539,
  Title                    = {La personne amputée dans les médias : quand l'ambiguité des images bouleverse la compréhension du handicap et des technologies de compensation/restauration.},
  Author                   = {Gourinat, V and Jarrassé, N},
  Booktitle                = {4ème Conférence annuelle ALTER (European Society for Disability Research)},
  Year                     = {2015},

  Address                  = {Paris, France},
  Month                    = {juillet 2015},
  Pages                    = {xx-xx},

  Abstract                 = {This conference aims to highlight the equivocal and ambiguous way amputees wearing external prostheses are being staged in the media. Its purpose is to present a critical analysis of collective representations of prosthetic devices, especially through the paradigm of the cyborg which is becoming more and more present in the media imagination and imagery. How do these images permeate the public sphere and amputees themselves? Do they have a concrete impact on how amputees are perceived and perceive themselves? What are the main differences between what is shown and what is really experienced by patients?
This presentation will focus on the way the vision conveyed by recent media has gradually shaked contemporary conceptions and representations of disability and disabled body. From the prosthetic devices' point of view, it has steadily drifted into the image of "bionic" body or "enhanced" body, even going so far as to influence the research field and technical innovation process. More broadly, we will show how the figure of the amputee wearing prosthesis questions in an iconic way the contemporary relation to the body and the new technologies (a gradual depreciation of the former, and an increasing fascination towards the latter).
The authors work with patients as part of their research, so the data collection is partly done through interviews and ground observations. A critical analysis of the collective imagination and recent media trends will also be put into perspective, especially around the concept increasingly popular of "human enhancement" which is at the core of this representational twist and novel notion that is currently made of the prosthetic body and the concept of disability.},
  Category                 = {ACTN},
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