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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">From popular culture to social networking: Disability media advocacy comes of age</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A workshop with Professor Beth Haller (Towson University)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">hosted by Dept of Media & Communications, U. of Sydney</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2-5pm, Monday 2 March 2015</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Seminar Room (S226), Level 2 Woolley Building (A20)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">map link: <a href="http://sydney.edu.au/arts/about/maps.shtml?locationID=A20">http://sydney.edu.au/arts/about/maps.shtml?locationID=A20</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">RVSP essential: <o:p></o:p></span><a href="http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/disability-media-advocacy-tickets-15868341637?aff=eac2">http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/disability-media-advocacy-tickets-15868341637?aff=eac2</a></p>
<p><b style="font-family: Calibri;">About the Workshop:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Shifts in, and sometimes the total collapse of traditional news media in the USA, affect how people with disabilities and their issues get covered. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">In both news and entertainment media, disability activists and organizations are actively reconfiguring how they communicate with the general public. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Most importantly,
these changes in traditional mass media are being seen as an opportunity, not a problem for the disability sector. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As gatekeepers fall away, people with disabilities and their issues finally find their place in the media landscape.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>About Professor Beth Haller </b>(</span><a href="https://bethhaller.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">https://bethhaller.wordpress.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">):</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">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. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-US">Professor Haller is the author of </span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Representing Disability in an Ableist
World: Essays on Mass Media</span></em><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> (Advocado Press, 2010). She is also the former co-editor of the Society for Disability Studies’ scholarly journal, </span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Disability
Studies Quarterly</span></em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, (2003-2006). Haller currently maintains a blog on disability issues in the news, </span><a href="http://media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: rgb(95, 29, 135); font-family: Calibri;">Media
dis&dat</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. With Katie Ellis and Gerard Goggin, Haller is editing the
</span><em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Routledge Companion to Disability and Media</span></em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>For more information</b>, contact Professor Gerard Goggin:
</span><a href="mailto:gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">gerard.goggin@sydney.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> or 02 9114 1218.</span></span></span></p>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;">Gerard Goggin<br>
ARC Future Fellow</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;">Professor of Media and Communications<br>
Department of Media and Communications<br>
University of Sydney <br>
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p: +61 2 9114 1218 <br>
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