[ecrea] Call for Articles, JORSEN Special Issue, Submission Date 1st August 2011

*****Expressions of interest or queries may be sent to Irene Rose at 
(I.E.Rose /at/ ljmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(I.E.Rose /at/ ljmu.ac.uk)>*****

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*Mediating Disability in the Digital Era: The Mass Media and Equality in 
Education*

*A special issue of JORSEN in conjunction with the Cultural Disability 
Studies Research Network planned for 2012 *

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.

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.

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.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

How digital media has helped to reveal exclusionary practice within 
educational settings;

How digital media has afforded voices to those previously only addressed 
as anonymised research subjects;

How digital media enables the inclusion of marginalised perspectives 
within the inclusive education agenda;

How digital media has afforded knowledge exchange across transnational 
borders;

The use of advocacy and activist websites, blogs and forums in classroom 
practice;

The impact of social networking sites on the awareness and rise of 
sexual rights for those previously excluded from access to sexual 
citizenship;

The representation of disability in digitised forms;

The impact of increased accessibility to media coming from a social 
model perspective.

This issue will be jointly edited by Sue Ralph (University of 
Northampton) Email: (jorsen /at/ nasen.org.uk) <mailto:(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: (wiatel /at/ hope.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(wiatel /at/ hope.ac.uk)>

Please submit articles to by email to Sue Ralph, Editor, /JORSEN/ by 1st 
August 2011**

Prof. Sue Ralph. Visiting Professor in Special and Inclusive Education. 
CeSNER, University of Northampton, Park Campus, Boughton Green Road, 
Northampton NN2 7AL. Email: (jorsen /at/ nasen.org.uk) <mailto:(jorsen /at/ nasen.org.uk)>