Spring 2024 – Sprockets and Springes

Disability in Media: How Media Influences the Way We View Disability

Media shapes the way people view others. From newspapers to television, and now to the usage of social media to share stories and ideas, there has always been discrimination on who and what gets viewed by the wider world. If we look back to the first movie, a stop-motion two-second film in 1888, it’s unbelievableContinue reading “Disability in Media: How Media Influences the Way We View Disability”

Redefining Tropes Through Queer Theory

Queer Theory has often been described in critical views as studying gender and sexuality in people. It’s been the subject of studying queer people prominent in the LGBT+ community. Politics surely have a field day when discussing Queer Theory, but it’s also very prominently discussed in modern media forms of entertainment. Within the last tenContinue reading “Redefining Tropes Through Queer Theory”