[Commlist] Disability Communication and Media Virtual Conference

*Event: Disability Communication and Media Virtual Conference, Zoom, 5 
Feb & 12 Feb 2025*

*Disability Communication and Media Virtual Conference*

*5 February 2025 (Wed), 9:30AM to 1:30PM AEDT *_AND_***12 February 2025 
(Wed), 6PM to 9PM AEDT (UTC +11) *

*Online only (Zoom)*

*CART provided *

Please join us for a free, virtual-only, two day conference on 
*Disability Communication and Media *on 5 February 2025, 0930 to 1330 
AEDT *AND* 12 February 2025, 1800 to 2100 AEDT. CART will be provided.


This is organized as part of the disability communication and media 
focus we are trying to grow at the International Communication Association.

This conference features a series of presentations that consider the 
intersections of disability, media, and communication across mediums, 
contexts, and geographies. It draws attention to the complex dynamics 
that emerge when disability meets digital spaces, services, and 
academia, as well as considerations of normality, representation, and 
meaning-making.

If you are interested in this event, feel free to register at the 
following link: 
https://ntu-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/kooFlAjJTXiwER7TMZsO-g 
<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/61uzCwV1vMfRp8PERuVfPSJkMk4?domain=ntu-sg.zoom.us>

Detailed conference schedule provided after registration and at the 
following link: https://tinyurl.com/disabilitycommunication 
<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xmKNCxngwOfQOMB5QfvhgSy1K-p?domain=tinyurl.com> (or 
see below)

Organizers:

  * Kuansong Victor ZHUANG (NTU)
  * Gerard GOGGIN (Western Sydney U)
  * Katie ELLIS (Curtin U)
  * Wenqi TAN (U Sydney)



*_5 February 2025 Wednesday: DAY ONE_*

*0930–1000 *(AEDT: UTC+11):* Opening Remarks*

*1000–1100 *(AEDT: UTC+11): *Panel 1 — Disability in Digital Spaces*

Building Microworlds for Difference on an Online Platform for Disability 
and Activist Arts

	

Elisabeth Harrison, Lilith Lee, Carla Rice

	

EST: UTC-5 (1800)

Crip Digital Intimacies: The Social Dynamics of Creating Access through 
Digital Technology

	

Megan A. Johnson, Eliza Chandler, Chelsea Temple Jones, Lisa East

	

EST: UTC-5 (1800)

Affirming or ableist? Digital disconnection meets disability media studies

	

Alex Beattie & Maggie Shippam

	

UTC+13 (1400)

*1100–1120 *(AEDT: UTC+11)*: Break*

*1120–1220 *(AEDT: UTC+11): *Panel 2 — Disability in Services*

Empathetic communication during a rare genetic diagnosis: exploring a 
novel communication tool to improve patient-provider communication

	

Christina SanInocencio

	

EST: UTC-4 (1920)

Leading with lived experience: the politics of disability research.

	

Vicki Bamford

	

AEDT: UTC+11

Early research on communication by people with a disability. Four 
ethnographic studies to design online resources

	

Patricia Gillard

	

AEDT: UTC+11

*1220–1240 *(AEDT: UTC+11)*: Break*

*1240–1325 *(AEDT: UTC+11): *Panel 3 — Disability and Normality across 
Domains*

Sex, Disabilities, and Communication: Toward Sex-Positive Theorizing of 
Sexual Expression

	

Jimmie Manning

	

PST: UTC-8 (1840)

“Bipolar is my Superpower”: The mediated construction of ableism

	

Miriam Rahali

	

PST: UTC-8 (1840)

*
1325-1330 *(AEDT: UTC+11): *Closing*

*__*

*_12 February 2025 Wednesday: DAY TWO _*__

*1800–1920 *(AEDT: UTC+11): *Panel 4 — Disability in Academia *

Postgraduate Pains: It Hurts Less If I'm the One Who Pushes Myself to 
"Fit In."

	

Maqymseahe Ninces

	

UTC+13 (2000)

Cutaway to crip time: Slowing down in the academia of communication 
discipline

	

M Shuaib Mohamed Haneef

	

UTC+5:30 (1230)

‘’The highs and lows of doing a practice-based PhD’’

	

Emma Astra

	

UTC+1 (0800)

Adapting Quantitative Data Gathering Tools to Accommodate Cognitive 
Needs: A Case Study in Neurodiversity - ICA

	

Cátia Casimiro, Pedro Miguel Fernandes, João Léste, Carla Sousa, Filipe Luz

	

UTC+1 (0800)

*1920–1940 *(AEDT: UTC+11)*: Break*

*1940–2100 *(AEDT: UTC+11)*: Panel 5 — Disability, Representations, and 
Meaning-making*

What role for associations? The Italian context and political 
dis/ability between platform constraints and community aspirations

	

Fabiana Battisti

	

UTC+1 (0940)

Toward Existential Dismediation: Querying Technologies of the 
Extraordinary Self

	

Amanda Lagerkvist

	

UTC+2 (1040)

 From News to Conversation: the role of metaphor and indexicality in 
the reinforcement of social meanings of disability.

	

Rod Hermeston

	

UTC (0840)

**

*2100-2110 *(AEDT: UTC+11)*: Closing*

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