<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Dear all </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font color="#262626" face="Aptos, sans-serif" size="3">Apologies for cross-posting, but welcoming submissions for this hybrid preconf at ICA’ 24! </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font color="#262626" face="Aptos, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font color="#262626" face="Aptos, sans-serif" size="3">Cheers</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><font color="#262626" face="Aptos, sans-serif" size="3">vic </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">==== </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">The Inaugural Disability Communications and Media Preconference 2024 – Emerging or Emerged? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Organizers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Gerard Goggin, Katie Ellis, Beth Haller, Elizabeth Ellcessor, Lorenzo Dalvit, Dyah Pitaloka, Abdul Rohman, Francis Routledge, Valquiria Ramos </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Obregón<span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Thursday, 20 June 2024 | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (AEST)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre (GCCEC), Australia <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Hybrid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Submission deadline: 9 Feb 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br></span></p><a href="https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA24-DisabilityComm" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA24-DisabilityComm</a><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">====<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">This preconference invites papers that showcases cutting edge scholarship in the area of disability communications and media research. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We have two aims: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">1)<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We hope this preconference will spotlight emerging research at the intersections of disability and media/communications;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">2)<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We hope the preconference will provide an avenue for mentorship <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">A key focus of this inaugural preconference is to take stock of the field. To this effect, we ask: is disability communication and media research an emerging or emerged area of research within communication and media studies? Such a question has already been asked, notably within the academic discipline of disability studies. And given the large body of work that has focused on/around disability in communication and media research over the past two decades </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">(Ellis et al. 2020; Ellis and Goggin 2013; Hadley and McDonald 2018; Ellis et al. 2019; Riley 2005; Ellcessor and Kirkpatrick 2017; Haller 2010; Ellis and Kent 2011; Ellis 2016; Ellis and Kent 2016; Ellis and Goggin 2015; Alper 2017, 2023; Sterne 2021; Goggin and Newell 2003; Goggin 2021; Jeffress et al. 2023)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">, a reckoning of the state of disability research at this particular moment is especially opportune. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Importantly, we situate this preconference with efforts of disability scholars to engage with communication studies as a discipline. We invite submissions that consider the question of whether disability communications and media research is an emergent or emerged field and/or work that highlight cutting edge research (loosely defined) in the area of disability communication/media and research. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We welcome submissions from all including postgraduates, early-career, emerging and established scholars based on, but not limited to the following topics: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Research that spotlights emergent, cutting edge and exciting areas of disability communication and media research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Research that brings together disability-led perspective to engage communication and media studies <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Research that consider what it means to do disability-led research in the areas of communication, media and technology <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Research that takes stock of disability communication and media research to-date<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Research that spotlights disability communication and media research away from Global North locations <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">and/or engages with the following questions: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Is disability communication and media research an emergent or emerged field?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">How can disability research engage with and enrich communication and media studies and vice versa? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">What can we as communication scholars learn from disability insights such as crip time and slowing down in academic environments?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">What are the methodological contours of disability communication and media research? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">What are the gaps, problems, areas of concern in disability communication and media research?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 54pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">•<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">What is the future of disability communication and media research?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We welcome submissions across methodological approaches and mediums. Submissions should also build on the core tenets of disability studies, which demands a critical rethinking of disability in normative societies. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">If interested, pls submit a 250-word abstract of your proposed topic and title, with a 50-word bio by <b>9 Feb 2024</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Title the email <b>CFP</b> </span><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Disability Communications and Media Preconf 2024</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">All submissions and queries should be directed at </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:victor.zhuang@ntu.edu.sg" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">victor.zhuang@ntu.edu.sg</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Indicate if you are likely to be participating remotely/in person and also any access needs <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">* This preconference will be hybrid, so both physical and remote participation will be possible. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">* Please note that we strongly encourage postgraduates and early career scholars to participate and will prioritise their submissions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">* We also hope to match potential mentors and mentees as part of this preconference. If you would like to mentor emerging scholars in the field of disability and communications, or be mentored, please do indicate your interest by sending an email to </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:victor.zhuang@ntu.edu.sg" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">victor.zhuang@ntu.edu.sg</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">*fees, if any to be announced <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">References<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="EndNoteBibliography" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Alper, Meryl. 2017. <i>Giving voice: Mobile communication, disability, and inequality</i>. 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Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="EndNoteBibliography" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -36pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Sterne, Jonathan. 2021. <i>Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment</i>. Duke University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><br><br><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\<br>Kuansong Victor ZHUANG <br>Visiting Fellow</div>Discipline of Media and Communications<br>School of Art, Communication and English<br><div>Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney</div><div><br></div><div>International Postdoctoral Scholar<br>Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information</div><div>Nanyang Technological University</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ksvictorzhuang.com/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://www.ksvictorzhuang.com/</a></div></div></body></html>