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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Australian media & culture journal focuses on disability

M/C Journal in Australia has focused its current issue titled "able" on disability topics. Its articles are available online. The Table of Contents for this issue is:

  • EDITORIAL: Disabling Able - Liz Ferrier, Viv Muller
  • FEATURE: Refusing Able(ness): A Preliminary Conversation about Ableism - Fiona Kumari Campbell
  • Mobilising the Monster: Modern Disabled Performers’ Manipulation of the Freakshow - Bree Hadley
  • Disability, Heroism and Australian National Identity - Martin Mantle
  • Enabling the Auteurial Voice in Dance Me to My Song - D. Bruno Starrs
  • Ars Moriendi, the Erotic Self and AIDS - Catalina Florescu
  • Creating Visible Children? - Nicole Mathews
  • Shattering the Hearing Wall - Donna McDonald
  • Amniocentesis and Motherhood: How Prenatal Testing Shapes Our Cultural Understandings of Pregnancy and Disability - Fiona Place
  • Able to Live, Laugh and Love - Veronica Wain
  • iTunes Is Pretty (Useless) When You’re Blind: Digital Design Is Triggering Disability When It Could Be a Solution - Katie Ellis, Mike Kent
  • Innovation and Disability - Gerard Goggin
  • Is There an End to Out-Able? Is There an End to the Rat Race for Abilities? - Gregor Wolbring
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Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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