[ecrea] Call for Articles: Mediating Disability in the Digital Era: The Mass Media and Equality in Education, 1st August 2011

> Mediating Disability in the
> Digital Era: The Mass Media and Equality in Education
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> A special issue of JORSEN in conjunction with the Cultural Disability
> Studies Research Network planned for
> 2012       
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> This special journal issue seeks to offer the space for those committed
> to social justice through inclusive education to reflect upon the
> presence of digital media in the classroom and professional
> practice.
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> Digital media here is taken to include traditional media forms that are
> being digitised or are now produced in digitised forms and what has been
> termed ‘new media’ e.g. social networking sites. 
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> In Cultural Locations of Disability Snyder and Mitchell note that
> “we primarily come to know disabled people, both historically and in
> our own moment, through representations of their lives, experiences, and
> bodies that have been manufactured by those outside of the immediate
> disability experience” (2006:19). Furthermore, this is done without
> consideration of how the mode of mediation constructs how we can know the
> disability experience being represented. In view of this, this journal
> issue asks educators, practitioners and pedagogic, disability and
> cultural researchers to consider the changes that access to, and
> dissemination through, digital mediums have afforded for how we can
> understand the experience and cultural construction of
> disability.
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> Topics may include but are not limited to:
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> How digital media has helped to reveal exclusionary practice within
> educational settings;
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> How digital media has afforded voices to those previously only addressed
> as anonymised research subjects;
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> How digital media enables the inclusion of marginalised perspectives
> within the inclusive education agenda;
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> How digital media has afforded knowledge exchange across transnational
> borders;
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> The use of advocacy and activist websites, blogs and forums in classroom
> practice;
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> The impact of social networking sites on the awareness and rise of sexual
> rights for those previously excluded from access to sexual
> citizenship;
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> The representation of disability in digitised forms;
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> The impact of increased accessibility to media coming from a social model
> perspective.
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> This issue will be jointly edited by Sue Ralph (University of
> Northampton) Email:
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> (jorsen /at/ nasen.org.uk), Irene Rose (Liverpool John Moores
> University) Email: (I.E.Rose /at/ ljmu.ac.uk) and Laura Waite (Liverpool Hope
> University) Email:
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> (wiatel /at/ hope.ac.uk)
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> Please submit articles to by email to Sue Ralph, Editor, JORSEN by
> 1st August 2011
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> Prof. Sue Ralph. Visiting Professor in Special and Inclusive Education.
> CeSNER, University of Northampton, Park Campus, Boughton Green Road,
> Northampton NN2 7AL. Email:
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> (jorsen /at/ nasen.org.uk)