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No Larry, you certainly are not the only one mourning Derrida's death. You can count me in for a start. Yours, Peter Handley ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Arnold <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 6:32 PM Subject: Re: The failings of disability PR.... > The quotation you are refering to is "The medium is the message" and the > author was Marshall McCluhan a canadian BTW who wrote amongst other things a > tome entitled "the medium is the massage" that is not a mispelling it is > massage as in massage parlor. > > Incidentally am I the only one mourning the death of Jaques Derrida, who > showed us more than anyone the way that language is unreliable and partisan. > > Larry > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The Disability-Research Discussion List > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Maria Barile > > Sent: 12 October 2004 13:12 > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: The failings of disability PR.... > > > > > > Glen > > > > interesting you should write this, we had the opposite situation here in > > Quebec, anyone who read my posting would have seen me complain about the > > bio-medical predominance here. Then two weeks ago, one of the disabled > > women's group that I have volunteered with as a board member for a while > > now, presented a critique and recommendations regarding a proposed law on > > disability here in Quebec. We were quite deliberate in writing that > > disability is more than biology, that disability is a socio-political > > situation and we bolded that part, our verbal presentation also focused on > > that point and our recommendations were also deliberate in > > requesting that a > > gender base analysis be conducted of the law itself. Most groups > > of and for > > disabled persons focused on social issues. Even the politician > > for the most > > part were(sort of OK) in there questions staying on topics.( I was gladly > > surprise). You would think the media would follow that > > example,right? Nope! > > The media I now suspect actually leads the miss-conception > > based on their > > own myth. So, I wonder if we should forget about the message and > > concentrate on methods of delivery. In other words reverse the slogan that > > Meads (1970'sh) was proposing "the message is the means " I would say > > For disability to be understood as we see it, "the means have to be more > > then the message" This is our responsibility. In your example, make sure > > that the more that one person speaks to the media, and that there is a > > verity of persons with different disability present. > > Maria > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Smith, Glenn" <[log in to unmask]> > > To: <[log in to unmask]> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:54 AM > > Subject: The failings of disability PR.... > > > > > > > ...I feel down recently... > > > > > > ...despite the UK's channel 4 news rather feeble attempt at a discussion > > > around the politics of disability after Christopher Reeve's death (which > > is > > > noramlly excellent), if you watched BBC news at 10 last night reflecting > > on > > > the death of Christopher Reeve, nobody would even know that there are > > other > > > alternative ideas out there concerning disability apart from the ethical > > > medical debates concerning stem cell research. Are we not failing in > > getting > > > the social message across to the media? > > > > > > Also, the other week we had coverage of the disability > > discrimination act, > > > and what did we see on the news and on the BBC TV programme Watchdog - > > > you've guessed it, lots of people in wheelchairs trying to get into > > > buildings. Coupled with the recent paraolympics, the narrowed > > view of who > > is > > > disabled and who is not in society and how to "beat it" seems to remain > > > unchallenged and narrowly focused. Are we not also having great > > difficulty > > > in showing the public the breadth of disability and the real politics of > > > disability? I would say very, very much. > > > > > > Now, we even have the rather negatively named film "Inside I'm dancing" > > > which surprise, surprise focuses on two young people in > > wheelchairs, while > > > the drame about love on BBC 1, has a disabled character spouting some of > > the > > > cliches of joe publics perception of disability and how to get > > on in life > > > and to cap it all, he also has cerebral palsy. Not much has > > changed in the > > > film world, challenging the views of Joe Public. > > > > > > Anyone got any thoughts on a little better PR for all those who > > feel that > > > disability is not exclusive to certain types of impairment, and how the > > > media - after many many years of disability scholarship - can > > incorporate > > a > > > social perspective into some of the more complicated debates that the > > scope > > > of the disability discrimination act simply cannot represent...?? > > > > > > Cheer me up please... > > > > > > Glenn > > > > > > Dr Glenn Smith, > > > Research Fellow, > > > London. > > > > > > ________________End of message______________________ > > > > > > Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List > > > are now located at: > > > > > > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > > > > > > You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page. > > > > ________________End of message______________________ > > > > Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List > > are now located at: > > > > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > > > > You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page. > > > > ________________End of message______________________ > > Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List > are now located at: > > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > > You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page. > ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.