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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World available as audiobook. Open Access e-book

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I ID:  Audiobooks.com ’s website for Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World. The light blue and white cover o...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Call for Book Chapters: Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, and Disability in the Global South

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CFP: Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, and Disability in the Global South Editors: Tafadzwa Rugoho (PhD), Ngozi Emmanuel (PhD), and Bet...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Report uncovers 'systemic discrimination' faced by people with disabilities in Australian screen industry

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from ABC News in Australia . Photo of  Ade Djajamihardja and his wife Kate.  As an Asian-born Australian, Ade Djajamihardja is no stranger t...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

‘Dark Disabled Stories’ review: When the world isn’t built for you

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From The New York Times : Near the start of “Dark Disabled Stories,” the playwright-performer Ryan J. Haddad’s richly provocative new show a...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

'An Irish Goodbye' star James Martin tells aspiring actors with Down syndrome 'don’t let people say you can’t'

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From ITV .  Note: An Irish Goodbye won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film on March 12, 2023. A Belfast actor receiving glowi...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Elon Musk's destruction of Twitter is harming disabled people

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From  Time  magazine : Pictured is a Twitter chat announcement from 2019. ID:  Graphic with a white background with text: “ #DisabilityCivic...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Photographers and illustrators with disabilities, Shutterstock is offering monetary grants for work that authentically depicts disabled people

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  Please share widely!   Photographers and illustrators with disabilities, Shutterstock is offering monetary grants for work that authen...
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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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