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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Just a quick
plug for the new free online course from Internet Studies at Curtin called Disability
and Digital Media: Accessibility, Representation and Inclusion which is now
open: <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/disability-and-digital-media-accessibility-representation-and-inclusion" style="color:blue">https://www.edx.org/course/disability-and-digital-media-accessibility-representation-and-inclusion</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Disability
and Digital Media tries to make some of the big issues and questions around
Digital Disability accessible to a more general audience, but may be of
interest to scholars and students more broadly.
This joins our first free online short-course Social Media: How Media
Got Social which remains available to anyone interested: <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/social-media-how-media-got-social" style="color:blue">https://www.edx.org/course/social-media-how-media-got-social</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">More detail
about Disability and Digital Media: Accessibility, Representation and Inclusion
follows:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Curtin
University’s latest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will explore how social
media – including memes – is changing the face of disability, as well as the
opportunities and challenges the online age presents to people with
disabilities.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The free
four-week MOOC, delivered through the edX online learning platform, will help
learners understand the impact of social media on representations of disability
and the role of accessibility in the digital world.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The course,
titled Disability and Digital Media, consists of four modules, delving into the
politics of experiencing and discussing disability online and the presence of
disability in memes, viral content and online culture.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Course
Coordinator Associate Professor Katie Ellis, from the School of Media, Creative
Arts and Social Inquiry, said the MOOC offered an opportunity to learn about
the relationship between digital technologies and disability in an
ever-changing online landscape.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“As an
increasingly prevalent and pervasive part of our daily lives, the internet is a
reflection of who we are and the society we live in,” Associate Professor Ellis
said.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“This MOOC
will help learners understand how a contemporary online environment, including
social media, is changing representations of disability and will explore the
opportunities and challenges of representing disability online.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Disability
and Digital Media will cover a range of topics including social and medical
models of disability, key concepts and terminology for understanding digital
disability, how memes and viral content are being used by disability activists
and how the tools of digital accessibility can benefit all media users.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Curtin
University Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Professor Jill Downie said the
digital world presented new and innovative ways for people to learn, making
education more accessible for many.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“This online
course is relevant to online learners from all parts of the world who are
interested in learning more about the relationship between digital technologies
and disability in the internet age,” Professor Downie said.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">“By working
with edX to deliver these online courses, Curtin is offering greater flexibility
to students, professionals and global learners looking to develop their skills,
study a passion or further their qualifications.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Disability
and Digital Media will run in self-paced mode for 2019, so participants may
enrol and complete it at any time. It is the second MOOC from Internet Studies
at Curtin, following on from Social Media: How Media Got Social, which was
launched in 2018 and is now available on edX in self-paced mode.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Participants
can enrol now in Disability-and-Digital-Media: Accessibility, Representation
and Inclusion, which started February 4, 2019: <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/disability-and-digital-media-accessibility-representation-and-inclusion" style="color:blue">https://www.edx.org/course/disability-and-digital-media-accessibility-representation-and-inclusion</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Cheers,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tama</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Associate Professor Tama Leaver<br>Discipline Lead, Internet Studies,</div><div dir="ltr">School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI)<br>Curtin University<br>GPO Box U1987 Perth WA Australia 6845<br>Ph: (+61 8) 9266 1258<br>Email: <a href="mailto:t.leaver@curtin.edu.au" target="_blank">t.leaver@curtin.edu.au</a><br>Web: <a href="http://www.tamaleaver.net" target="_blank">www.tamaleaver.net</a><div>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/tamaleaver" target="_blank">@tamaleaver</a><br>CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J (WA)</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>