RT Journal Article
T1 Analysis of Mockery and Discrimination towards People with Disabilities in Cartoons: The Family Guy Case
A1 García Claro, Jaime
A1 Vázquez Aguado, Octavio
A1 Martínez Pecino, Roberto
AB Disability is a topic that arouses social interest and that has been approached and represented in different ways throughout history. Analysing media portrayals of disability is needed toease the development of inclusive societies. This work aims to identify the social representations ofpeople with disabilities and the cases of mockery and discrimination that appear in the well-knownFamily Guy cartoons. For this purpose, a mixed methodology has been chosen, extracting all possiblecases of the concepts used to refer to disability. The results show that the most commonly used concepts are pejorative and typical of dispensational and medical-rehabilitative paradigms. Regardingmockery and discrimination, it is observed that when both are related to a direct interaction withpeople with a disability, they appear in a much higher percentage. Although Family Guy is not aneducational series and is aimed at audiences over 16 years of age, the results of this work promotemedia education as a tool to critically analyse the representations offered by the media to promote aninclusive society
PB MDPI
SN 2076-0760 (electrónico)
YR 2022
FD 2022-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21097
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21097
LA eng
NO Garcia-Claro, J., Vazquez-Aguado, O., & Martinez-Pecino, R. (2022). Analysis of Mockery and Discrimination towards People with Disabilities in Cartoons: The Family Guy Case. In Social Sciences (Vol. 11, Issue 6, p. 231). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11060231
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026