CfP: Disability and Communication

>Disability and Communication:
>New Directions in Creativity and Global Citizenship?
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>Call for papers for stream of
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>Australian and New Zealand Communications conference
>QUT, Brisbane, 8-10 July 2009
>http://www.anzca09.org/
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>Due date: Friday 6 Feb 2009
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>For a second year, a ‚Disability and Communication‘ stream, convened by Dr
>Fiona Kumari Campbell (Griffith) and Professor Gerard Goggin (UNSW) will
>showcase research about disability – bringing together those interested in
>making disability an integral and vibrant part of media and communications
>research, teaching, policy, and practice.
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>In keeping with this year’s ANZCA theme theme, we call for contributions on
>(but not limited to) topics such as:
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>* Where do critical conceptions of disability fit into current discourses of
>creativity?
>* What are the new possibilities for justice, ethics and disability from
>changes in global citizenship (not least the new UN Convention on the Rights
>of Persons with Disabilities)?
>* How do people with disabilities figure in contemporary media culture in
>Australia and New Zealand, and the Asia-Pacific region?
>* What are the new cultures of disability to be found in digital
>technologies and environments, from Second Life, through mobiles, to digital
>broadcasting, and new media technologies of disability?
>* How should media and communications studies and research respond to the
>new political and scholarly developments around disability in Australasia?
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>Please proceed to make a direct submission through the ANZCA website:
>http://www.anzca09.org/ or contact both convenors: Fiona Kumari Campbell
>(Fiona.Campbell@griffith.edu.au); Gerard Goggin (g.goggin@unsw.edu.au)
>Final date for submission of abstracts is Friday 6 February 2009.
>