[csaa-forum] Beth Haller/Digital Media World & Disabled People/USyd Fri 13 Feb

[Gerard Goggin]

A digital media world redefined by and for disabled people: Representations and access

A workshop with Professor Beth Haller (Towson University)
hosted by Dept of Media & Communications, U. of Sydney, supported by Fulbright Commission

1.30-5pm, Friday 13 February 2015
Seminar Room (S226), Level 2 Woolley Building (A20)
map link: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/about/maps.shtml?locationID=A20

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About the Workshop:

With the growth of tablets and their apps as communication methods for many people with disabilities, mass media have created new representations about disability, as well as reinforcing older more stigmatizing narratives. This workshop will discuss the media’s embrace of these technology and disability stories that sometimes present “tablet as cure” messages. However, the media fail to investigate the many barriers that people with communication disabilities face to access these new technology products that might enhance their lives. It is becoming clear that many times disabled people who use tablets and smart phones for communication are the leaders in adapting them for numerous new uses, but their contributions go unacknowledged. In light of these trends, I will discuss how many people with disabilities are redefining what communication means in our social-mediated and curated way of interacting in modern society.

About Professor Beth Haller (https://bethhaller.wordpress.com/):

Beth Haller is Professor of Journalism/New Media and the Graduate Director of the Communication Management master’s program in the Department of Mass Communication & Communication Studies at Towson University in Maryland, where she has been a full-time faculty member since 1996. Her visit to Australia is supported by the Fulbright Specialist Program, and sponsored by the University of Sydney, and Curtin University.

Professor Haller is the author of Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media (Advocado Press, 2010). She is also the former co-editor of the Society for Disability Studies’ scholarly journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, (2003-2006). Haller currently maintains a blog on disability issues in the news, Media dis&dat<http://media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com/>. With Katie Ellis and Gerard Goggin, Haller is editing the Routledge Companion to Disability and Media.

For more information, contact Professor Gerard Goggin: gerard.goggin at sydney.edu.au or 02 9114 1218.


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Gerard Goggin
ARC Future Fellow
Professor of Media and Communications
Department of Media and Communications
University of Sydney

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