[csaa-forum] Beth Haller/Disability Media Advocacy/U. of Syd, Mon 2 March

[Gerard Goggin]

>From popular culture to social networking: Disability media advocacy comes of age

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

2-5pm, Monday 2 March 2015
Seminar Room (S226), Level 2 Woolley Building (A20)

map link: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/about/maps.shtml?locationID=A20

RVSP essential: http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/disability-media-advocacy-tickets-15868341637?aff=eac2

About the Workshop:

Shifts in, and sometimes the total collapse of traditional news media in the USA, affect how people with disabilities and their issues get covered.

In both news and entertainment media, disability activists and organizations are actively reconfiguring how they communicate with the general public. Most importantly, these changes in traditional mass media are being seen as an opportunity, not a problem for the disability sector.

As gatekeepers fall away, people with disabilities and their issues finally find their place in the media landscape.

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<mailto: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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