6. Digital Disability Media Disclosure: The Business of Blogging and Web Series Diversity

This chapter explores the internet as an alternative employment environment for disabled media professionals. Most often recognised as an arena for alternative forms of representation, the chapter offers two case studies – disability blogging and disability web series. Drawing on a content analysis of the self-identification of disability social justice bloggers, and an analysis of the motivations of disability web series producers, the chapter argues for a broader recognition of the new work environment of the internet and the possibilities it offers for people with disability and disability media. The new industrial arrangements allowed via disability-focused web series provide new opportunities for a diversity of representations on and off screen. In this disability digital media workforce, workers are encouraged rather than discouraged to disclose their disability.