<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;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">Dear all,</span><br><font color="#212121" face="Aptos, sans-serif"><br></font></span><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">Happy new year, and hoping that everyone is well. Advance apologies for cross-posting; we're circulating our ICA'25 preconference CFP, for doctoral students and non-tenure track early career researchers. This will be a hybrid event, so both in-person at Boulder & online participation are welcome! </span><br style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">Please do consider submitting and/or sharing with your networks!</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span><hr size="0" width="96%" noshade="" align="center" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"> </span><br><b style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The Second Disability, Communication, and Media Preconference at ICA 2025: Disability Research as Disruptive Research</span></b><br><i style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Organizers:</span></i><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Gerard Goggin, Katie Ellis, Meryl Alper, Lorenzo Dalvit, Elizabeth Ellcessor, Beth Haller, Chelsea Temple Jones, Dyah Pitaloka, Abdul Rohman, M. Remi Yergeau, Francis Routledge, Valquiria Ramos Obregón, Wenqi Tan, Samira Rajabi</span><br><i style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Hosted by UC Boulder</span></i><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"> </span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">Tuesday, 10 June 2025 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (MT)</span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States</span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">Hybrid</span><br><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span><br><b style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Submission deadline: 15 Feb 2025</span></b><br><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Submission link: </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><a href="https://forms.gle/wiMu8N8mfdMJW5Ff9" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://forms.gle/wiMu8N8mfdMJW5Ff9</span></a></span><br><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span><br><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">You can also view the CFP at our website, here: </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><a href="https://www.icadisability.com/2025/preconference-cfp" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.icadisability.com/2025/preconference-cfp</span></a></span><br><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span><br></span><hr size="0" width="96%" noshade="" align="center" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">A key focus of this year’s preconference is to foster a supportive community of scholars and thinkers across disability. communication, and media research. We are building upon our inaugural preconference at ICA 2024, where we had more than 50 attendees both online and in-person, to provide a space for collaboration, conversation, and mentorship.</span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"> </span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">The disability, communication, and media preconference will be a hybrid event. It will consist of:</span></span><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#212121" face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></span><ul class="MailOutline"><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Postgraduate and early career researcher consortium (to be held in the morning, Mountain Time)</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Workshop with expert speakers and senior scholars in disability, communication, and media studies</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Roundtable discussion on the futures of the field</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"> </span><br><b style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Theme: Disability Research as Disruptive Research</span></b><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">ICA 2025 invites us to critically review, disrupt, and consolidate the past, present, and futures of communication studies. Disability, media, and communication research is, of course, a vibrant field cutting across the swathe of communication and media studies (Alper 2017, 2023; Dokumaci 2023; Ellcessor and Kirkpatrick 2017; Ellis 2016; Ellis and Goggin 2015; Ellis et al. 2019, 2020; Ellis and Kent 2011, 2016; Goggin 2021; Goggin and Newell 2003; Hadley and McDonald 2018; Haller 2010, 2023; Jeffress et al. 2023; Riley 2005; Sterne 2021; Tkaczyk, Mills, and Hui 2020). At the preconference, we view disability—a form of generative knowledge and embodiment—as an avenue for critical, disruptive, and consolidative work as it guides us ‘to think through, act, resist, relate, communicate, engage with one another against the hybridized forms of oppression and discrimination that so often do not speak singularly of disability’ (Goodley 2013, 641). To this effect, we ask: </span><b style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">what does it mean to perform, practice, and research disruption through disability in and across communication and media studies?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#212121" face="Aptos, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">This year, the preconference invites </span><b style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">postgraduate students and early career researchers*</b><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"> across disability, communication, and media research to present their in-progress work in a collaborative environment, receive mentorship, and learn from established scholars in the field. We are interested in a diversity of projects, including research ideas in their early stages of development (including theses and dissertations), open and critical questions to the field, and the sharing of research results.</span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">Postgraduate students and early career researchers* will present their work to a panel of expert mentors. They will then receive feedback from the panel and fellow participants with the goal of developing a conference submission for the following year’s ICA.</span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">Submissions should focus on the application of disability studies in communication and media research, including, but not limited to the following topics:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#212121" face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></span><ul class="MailOutline"><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Research that deliberates on how disability studies is disruptive communication and media research</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Research that spotlights emergent, cutting edge, and exciting areas of disability communication and media research</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Research that brings together disability-led perspectives to engage communication and media studies </span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Research that consider what it means to do disability-led research in the areas of communication, media, and technology </span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Research that takes stock of disability, communication, and media research to-date</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Research that spotlights disability, communication, and media research away from Global North locations </span></li></ul><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"> </span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">and/or engages with the following questions: </span><br></span><ul class="MailOutline"><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">How can we, as disability scholars, perform, practice, and research disruption in communication and media studies?</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">How can disability research engage with and enrich communication and media studies and vice versa? </span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">What can we, as communication scholars, learn from disability insights such as ‘crip time’ and ‘spoon theory’ in academic environments?</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">What are the methodological contours of disability, communication, and media research? </span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">What are the gaps, problems, and areas of concern in disability, communication, and media research?</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">What is the future of disability, communication, and media research?</span></li></ul><div><font color="#212121" face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">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. </span><br><b style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">If interested, please submit a 300-word abstract of your research and a short statement of interest/biography on what you hope to get out of the preconference (maximum 200-words) by 15 February 2025 at this form: </span></b><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><a href="https://forms.gle/wiMu8N8mfdMJW5Ff9" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://forms.gle/wiMu8N8mfdMJW5Ff9</span></b></a></span><br></span><ul class="MailOutline"><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Please indicate if you will be participating in-person/remotely and any access needs**</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Please direct any queries at </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><a href="mailto:icadisability@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">icadisability@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">If the form above, or some aspects of it, is inaccessible, please email us at </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(0, 120, 215);"><a href="mailto:icadisability@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">icadisability@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">We will notify accepted abstracts within two weeks after the deadline.</span></li></ul><div><font color="#212121" face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">* Please note that early career researchers should be not more than 5 years from award of their PhD; preference will be given to postgraduate students and early career researchers not already in tenure-track positions.</span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">** This preconference will be hybrid, so both physical and remote participation will be possible.</span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">*** Please note that presenters must be available to present in the morning, Mountain Time.</span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">**** Fees, if any, to be announced.</span><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"> </span><br></span><hr size="0" width="96%" noshade="" align="center" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">References</span></b><br><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">Alper, Meryl. 2017. </span><i style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Giving voice: Mobile communication, disability, and inequality</i><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background-color: white;">. 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