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[Commlist] CFP: ICA'25 Disability, Communication, and Media Preconference
Fri Jan 17 11:02:54 GMT 2025
we're circulating our ICA'25 preconference CFP, for doctoral students
and non-tenure track early career researchers. This will be a hybrid event.
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*The Second Disability, Communication, and Media Preconference at ICA
2025: Disability Research as Disruptive Research*
/Organizers:/
Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Gerard Goggin, Katie Ellis, Meryl Alper, Lorenzo
Dalvit, Elizabeth Ellcessor, Beth Haller, Chelsea Temple Jones, Dyah
Pitaloka, Abdul Rohman, M. Remi Yergeau, Francis Routledge, Valquiria
Ramos Obregón, Wenqi Tan, Samira Rajabi
/Hosted by UC Boulder/
Tuesday, 10 June 2025 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (MT)
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Hybrid
*Submission deadline: 15 Feb 2025*
Submission link: https://forms.gle/wiMu8N8mfdMJW5Ff9
<https://forms.gle/wiMu8N8mfdMJW5Ff9>
You can also view the CFP at our website, here:
https://www.icadisability.com/2025/preconference-cfp
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A key focus of this year’s preconference is to foster a supportive
community of scholars and thinkers across disability. communication, and
media research. We are building upon our inaugural preconference at ICA
2024, where we had more than 50 attendees both online and in-person, to
provide a space for collaboration, conversation, and mentorship.
The disability, communication, and media preconference will be a hybrid
event. It will consist of:
* Postgraduate and early career researcher consortium (to be held in
the morning, Mountain Time)
* Workshop with expert speakers and senior scholars in disability,
communication, and media studies
* Roundtable discussion on the futures of the field
*Theme: Disability Research as Disruptive Research*
ICA 2025 invites us to critically review, disrupt, and consolidate the
past, present, and futures of communication studies. Disability, media,
and communication research is, of course, a vibrant field cutting across
the swathe of communication and media studies (Alper 2017, 2023;
Dokumaci 2023; Ellcessor and Kirkpatrick 2017; Ellis 2016; Ellis and
Goggin 2015; Ellis et al. 2019, 2020; Ellis and Kent 2011, 2016; Goggin
2021; Goggin and Newell 2003; Hadley and McDonald 2018; Haller 2010,
2023; Jeffress et al. 2023; Riley 2005; Sterne 2021; Tkaczyk, Mills, and
Hui 2020). At the preconference, we view disability—a form of generative
knowledge and embodiment—as an avenue for critical, disruptive, and
consolidative work as it guides us ‘to think through, act, resist,
relate, communicate, engage with one another against the hybridized
forms of oppression and discrimination that so often do not speak
singularly of disability’ (Goodley 2013, 641). To this effect, we ask:
*what does it mean to perform, practice, and research disruption through
disability in and across communication and media studies?*
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*This year, the preconference invites *postgraduate students and early
career researchers** across disability, communication, and media
research to present their in-progress work in a collaborative
environment, receive mentorship, and learn from established scholars in
the field. We are interested in a diversity of projects, including
research ideas in their early stages of development (including theses
and dissertations), open and critical questions to the field, and the
sharing of research results.
Postgraduate students and early career researchers* will present their
work to a panel of expert mentors. They will then receive feedback from
the panel and fellow participants with the goal of developing a
conference submission for the following year’s ICA.
Submissions should focus on the application of disability studies in
communication and media research, including, but not limited to the
following topics:
* Research that deliberates on how disability studies is disruptive
communication and media research
* Research that spotlights emergent, cutting edge, and exciting areas
of disability communication and media research
* Research that brings together disability-led perspectives to engage
communication and media studies
* Research that consider what it means to do disability-led research
in the areas of communication, media, and technology
* Research that takes stock of disability, communication, and media
research to-date
* Research that spotlights disability, communication, and media
research away from Global North locations
and/or engages with the following questions:
* How can we, as disability scholars, perform, practice, and research
disruption in communication and media studies?
* How can disability research engage with and enrich communication and
media studies and vice versa?
* What can we, as communication scholars, learn from disability
insights such as ‘crip time’ and ‘spoon theory’ in academic
environments?
* What are the methodological contours of disability, communication,
and media research?
* What are the gaps, problems, and areas of concern in disability,
communication, and media research?
* What is the future of disability, communication, and media research?
We welcome submissions across methodological approaches and mediums.
Submissions should also build on the core tenets of disability studies,
which demands a critical rethinking of disability in normative societies.
*If interested, please submit a 300-word abstract of your research and a
short statement of interest/biography on what you hope to get out of the
preconference (maximum 200-words) by 15 February 2025 at this form:
**https://forms.gle/wiMu8N8mfdMJW5Ff9* <https://forms.gle/wiMu8N8mfdMJW5Ff9>
* Please indicate if you will be participating in-person/remotely and
any access needs**
* Please direct any queries at (icadisability /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(icadisability /at/ gmail.com)>
* If the form above, or some aspects of it, is inaccessible, please
email us at (icadisability /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(icadisability /at/ gmail.com)>
* We will notify accepted abstracts within two weeks after the deadline.
* Please note that early career researchers should be not more than 5
years from award of their PhD; preference will be given to postgraduate
students and early career researchers not already in tenure-track positions.
** This preconference will be hybrid, so both physical and remote
participation will be possible.
*** Please note that presenters must be available to present in the
morning, Mountain Time.
**** Fees, if any, to be announced.
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*References*
Alper, Meryl. 2017. /Giving voice: Mobile communication, disability, and
inequality/. Boston: MIT Press.
---. 2023. /Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the
Digital Age/. Boston, MA: MIT Press.
Dokumaci, Arseli. 2023. /Activist Affordances: How Disabled People
Improvise More Habitable Worlds/. Durham, NC: Duke UP.
Ellcessor, Elizabeth, and Bill Kirkpatrick. 2017. /Disability media
studies/. New York: NYU Press.
Ellis, Katie. 2016. /Disability media work: Opportunities and
obstacles/. London: Palgrave.
Ellis, Katie, and Gerard Goggin. 2015. /Disability and the Media/.
Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Ellis, Katie, Gerard Goggin, Beth Haller, and Rosemary Curtis. 2019.
/The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media/. London: Routledge.
---. 2020. /The Routledge companion to disability and media/. London:
Routledge.
Ellis, Katie, and Mike Kent. 2011. /Disability and new media/. London:
Routledge.
---. 2016. /Disability and social media: Global perspectives/. New York,
NY: Routledge.
Goggin, Gerard. 2021. /Apps: From mobile phones to digital lives/. John
Wiley & Sons.
Goggin, Gerard, and Christopher Newell. 2003. /Digital disability: The
social construction of disability in new media/. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield.
Goodley, Dan. 2013. "Dis/Entangling Critical Disability Studies."
/Disability & Society/ 28 (5): 631-644.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2012.717884
<https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2012.717884>
Hadley, Bree, and Donna McDonald. 2018. /The Routledge handbook of
disability arts, culture, and media/. Routledge.
Haller, Beth. 2010. /Representing disability in an ableist world: Essays
on mass media/. Louisville, KY: Advocado Press.
---. 2023. /Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More
Inclusive World/. New York: Routledge.
Jeffress, Michael, Jim Ferris, Joy M Cypher, and Julie-Ann
Scott-Pollock, eds. 2023. /The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and
Communication/. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Riley, Charles A. 2005. /Disability and the media: Prescriptions for
change/. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England.
Sterne, Jonathan. 2021. /Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology
of impairment/. Duke University Press.
Tkaczyk, Viktoria, Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui. 2020. /Testing
hearing: The making of modern aurality/. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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