Cultural Disability Studies Research Network
in association with
Liverpool John Moores MA in Communication and Internet Studies
'Critical Internet Studies' Seminar Series present
Theorising Disability in the Media Study Day Series
A space for focused critical analysis and debate around disability,
representation and the mass media
Disability and the Internet:
Access, Mediation, Representation
Friday 5th December 2008
Liverpool John Moores University
The CDSRN will be launching its new study day series with a symposium on
Disability and the Internet held in conjunction with the MA in
Communication
and Internet Studies 'Critical Internet Studies' Seminar Series
Confirmed Speakers Include:
Dr. Helen Kennedy - Institute of Communication Studies, University of
Leeds
Prof. Ben Light - IS, Organisations and Society Research Centre and
School
of Media, Music and Performance, University of
Salford
Dr. Peter Wheeler - Business School, Edge Hill University
Topics to include (but not limited to): Disability and Social Networking
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Teaching Disability and the Internet * Autism and On-Line Advocacy
Titles, abstracts for papers (250 words) or expressions of interest with
a
brief biography are invited for submission by 3rd October 2008. Papers
from
postgraduate students are especially welcome.
For further details please contact: Irene Rose [log in to unmask]
Future Study Days will include:
Comedy * Television * Popular Print Fiction * Animation
If you wish to register an interest for a future event, suggest a topic
or
host a study day of your own please email [log in to unmask]
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