Disability and New Media Seminar/Book Launch:
Sydney: 2 April 2003, 3.30-5.30pm, Council Chambers, Uni of NSW
Brisbane: 4 April 2003, 3.30-5.30pm, Innes Room, Student Union
Complex, Uni of Qld
Digital information and communication technologies such as
mobile and fixed telecommunications, internet, digital television,
broadband and wireless technologies, and video telephony are often
heralded as holding much promise for people with disabilities. But how
is disability faring in new media? Are people with disabilities online -
or offline? How do the needs, expectations, and desires of people with
disabilities shape digital media? Are policymakers, convergent media
industries, and scholars engaging with the new social and cultural faces
of contemporary disability? Or are they just content to fall back on
disabling old stereotypes, leaving people with disabilities
disconnected?
These issues will be discussed in seminars on disability and new media in
Sydney and Brisbane, followed by the launch of “Digital Disability:
The Social Construction of Disability in New Media”, a new book by
Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
See below for further details.
Sydney:
Digital Disability:
A Sydney Seminar & Book Launch
on Disability + New Media
Hosted by Communications Law Centre, UNSW,
& Disability Studies & Research Institute (DSaRI)
Wednesday 2 April 2003
3.30-5.30pm
The Council Chamber, Chancellery Building, University of NSWUNSW
(Gate 9, High Street, Kensington)
3.30-5pm: Seminar on Disability and New Media
Speakers include:
* Derek Wilding (Communications Law Centre) (Chair)
* Helen Meekosha (DSaRI & School of Social Work, UNSW)
* Tim Noonan (Royal Blind Society of NSW & SoftSpeak Computer Services)
* Cathy Clark (Australian Association of the Deaf)
* Gerard Goggin (Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Qld)
* Christopher Newell (School of Medicine, University of Tasmania)
5pm onwards: Launch of Digital Disability: The Social Construction of
Disability in New Media by Gerard Goggin & Christopher Newell (Rowman
& Littlefield, 2003; www.rowmanlittlefield.com). Copies will be
available for purchase from UNSW Bookshop.
Digital Disability will be launched by Graeme Innes, AM, Deputy
Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Human Rights & Equal
Opportunity Commission. Light refreshments will be served.
RSVPs are essential -- to organiser, Gerard Goggin
([log in to unmask] or 02 9385 7374) by Friday 28 March. Please
advise any access or other requirements also.
Venue Information: The Council Chamber, Chancellery Building, is
located at the University of New South Wales (access off High Street,
Gate 9), Kensington, Sydney. Maps of the campus are available at
http://www.unsw.edu.au/maps/kensington.html, map reference C22, or
contact the organiser, Gerard Goggin ([log in to unmask] or 02 9385
7374). There is wheelchair access at the front of the Chancellery
Building. An AUSLAN interpreter will be present for the seminar and
launch. Some disabled parking is available, please notify the
organiser of your vehicle registration number if you would like a
space reserved.
The Communications Law Centre is an independent, non-profit, public
interest organisation specialising in media, communications and
online law and policy. The Centre is affiliated with the University
of New South Wales and Victoria University in Melbourne and the
University of New South Wales in Sydney. The CLC aims to be an
innovative, professional and influential source of research, ideas
and actions in the public interest on media and communications
issues. ? Further information: www.comslaw.org.au/02 0385
[log in to unmask] ?
The Disability Studies and Research Institute (DSaRI) undertakes
research into and education about disability issues from a social
perspective and promotes public debate associated with the social
dimensions of disability. The Institute involves stakeholders from
universities, organisations of people with disabilities, the research
community, policy and service delivery bodies, industry and the wider
community. It aims for a wider understanding and debate about the
social processes that disable people. Further information:
www.dsari.org.au/ph. 02 9319 6622/TTY 02 9318
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Brisbane Seminar Friday 04 April 2003 3.30 pm
The Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies (CCCS) advises that our
first seminar for 2003 will be held on Friday 4 April, 3.30-5.30pm,
Innes Room, UQ Student Union. The seminar will address the topic of
“Disability and New Media”, and will be followed by a launch of “Digital
Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media”, a new
book by Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell.
Website info at: http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/events/2003FullSemDet.html
Or please scroll down for more details.
Date: Fri 4 April 2003
Presenters: Professor Graeme Turner (chair), Gunela Astbrink, Len
Bytheway, Elizabeth Ferrier, Christopher Newell, Gerard Goggin
Place: Innes Room, Level 4 (upstairs from Main Refec
Podium) UQ Student Union Complex
Time: 3.30-5.00pm
Title: “Disability and New Media”
At 5pm, Kevin Cocks, Director, Queensland Advocacy Inc, will launch
“Digital Disability”. Copies available for purchase courtesy of UQ
Bookshop. Light refreshments will be served.
Members of the university community and the general public are invited
to attend this free seminar and book launch.
Please RSVP by Wednesday 2 April to event organiser, Dr Gerard
Goggin([log in to unmask], 0428 66 88 24).
The event will be interpreted in Australian Sign Language (AUSLAN). The
Innes Room is located on level 4 of the Student Union complex (building
#21, St Lucia campus). The venue is wheelchair accessible. Parking is
available nearby. (A map is available on the UQ website:
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.phtml?menu=1&sub_menu=0&id=35&z=1)
Please advise any access or other requirements to Dr Gerard Goggin.
Subject: Digital information and communication technologies such as
mobile and fixed telecommunications, internet, digital television,
broadband and wireless technologies, and video telephony are often
heralded as holding much promise for people with disabilities. But how
is disability faring in new media? Are people with disabilities online -
or offline? How do the needs, expectations, and desires of people with
disabilities shape digital media? Are policymakers, convergent media
industries, and scholars engaging with the new social and cultural faces
of contemporary disability? Or are they just content to fall back on
disabling old stereotypes, leaving people with disabilities
disconnected?
Chaired by Professor Graeme Turner, this seminar will feature five
leading experts on new media and disability, identifying and discussing
key issues and challenges. Speakers include Gunela Astbrink, Len
Bytheway, Liz Ferrier, Christopher Newell, and Gerard Goggin.
The seminar will be followed at 5pm by the launch of an important new
book on this topic, “Digital Disability: The Social Construction of
Disability in Media” (published in Rowman & Littlefield’s “Critical
Media Studies series”; http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/). The book will
be launched by Kevin Cocks, Director of Qld Advocacy Inc., and copies
will be available for sale from the UQ Bookshop
(http://www.bookshop.uq.edu.au/).
About the Presenters:
Professor Graeme Turner is Director of the Centre for Critical and
Cultural Studies, and one of the key figures in the development of
cultural studies in Australia
(http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/personnel/index.html).
Gunela Astbrink has extensive experience in research and policy in
disability, internet, and information and communications technologies
(http://www.gsa.com.au). Gunela is principal of GSA Information
Consultants, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University
working with the Smart Internet Technology CRC, Policy Advisor for
Telecommunications & Disability Consumer Representation (TEDICORE), and
Director of the Internet Society of Australia.
Len Bytheway is Chief Executive Officer of Australian Communication
Exchange, Australian Communication Exchange (ACE), a not-for-profit,
Australian organisation dedicated to empowering those who are Deaf or
have a hearing, speech or communication impairment, to obtain access to
the telephone and other telecommunication networks. Len is responsible
for overseeing the smooth operation of the functions, services and
activities of all divisions of ACE
(http://www.aceinfo.net.au/Profile/ceo.html). Len has had a long term
commitment to delivering relay services in Australia, from his voluntary
involvement with the establishment of the Deaflink relay service in
Queensland to becoming the first CEO when ACE was formed in 1995. Len
has been a teacher of the Deaf, a Qld state government consultant in
special education technology, and has worked in the corporate and
government sectors of the information technology and telecommunications
industries.
Dr Elizabeth Ferrier is a lecturer and coordinator of Media Studies in
the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History, University of
Queensland (http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/staff/staff-pages/ferrierl.html).
Current research interests include media industry knowledges and
practices (audience measurement, programming, media planning) and
independent content production in the new media and broadband context.
She published a landmark article on creative disability in Australian
film.
Kevin Cocks is Director of Queensland Advocacy Incorporated (QAI), an
independent, community-based systems advocacy and legal advocacy
organisation for people with disability in Queensland, Australia
(http://www.qai.org.au). QAI's mission is to promote, protect and
defend, through advocacy, the fundamental needs and rights and lives of
the most vulnerable people with disability in Queensland. QAI does this
by engaging in systems advocacy work - through campaigns directed to
attitudinal, law and policy change, and by supporting the development of
a range of advocacy initiatives in this State.
Dr Christopher Newell, AM, is senior lecturer in the School of Medicine,
University of Tasmania ([log in to unmask]). He is a person
with disability who has written extensively on a variety of topics
regarding disability, including telecommunications. Christopher
represents people with disabilities on a number of telecommunications
and other committees. His publications include a co-authored 1996 book
which utilised narratives of people with disability entitled “Managing
Mortality: Euthanasia on Trial” (Villamanta). With Gerard Goggin, he is
currently collaborating on a book provisionally entitled “Australian
Apartheid?: Encountering Disability in Society”.
Dr Gerard Goggin is a postdoctoral fellow in CCCS at UQ, working on
social and cultural aspects of telecommunications, internet, and new
media (http://www.cccs.uq.edu.au/personnel/index.html). Gerard is
presently writing a book with the working title “Networked Imaginings: A
Cultural History of Australian Internet”, as well as researching
broadband technologies.
The Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies' 2003 seminar program aims
to promote the research culture of the arts and humanities, in addition
to showcasing the diversity of research currently being undertaken
within the fields of critical and cultural studies. We aim to
incorporate visitors from interstate and overseas to the University into
the program, along with seminars by UQ Staff. In particular, the
seminar series provides an opportunity for UQ staff who have been
Faculty Fellows at the Centre the previous year to talk about the
outcomes of their research project.
For enquiries about this event, please contact Dr Gerard Goggin, Centre
for Critical and Cultural Studies:
Email: [log in to unmask]
Ph. 0428 66 88 24; Fax:(07) 3365 7184 http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/cccs/
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