We are a group of disability studies scholars who have been active at the International Communication Association (ICA). We hope to organize various panels around disability, communication, and media for the ICA 2025 conference, which will be held at Denver 12-16 June 2025. The main theme of the 2025 conference is Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research. For more information on the conference and the theme, see, https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica25-theme
If you're interested in presenting your research in one of our panels, please check the outlines below and send a proposal for consideration until October 11th, 2024, to icadisability@gmail.com. Consider also that each division and interest group has different guidelines on format and requirements. Read this information thoroughly and contact us in case you have any doubts.
Proposed Panel Chair: Abdul Rohman (RMIT Vietnam)
In this panel, we are keen to consider how disability and its activisms (especially digital forms across various media) offer means to disrupt communication and advance social/disability justice.
If interested, please submit a
Title and 150-word abstract for your paper
100-word bio for each author
Proposed Panel Chair: Meryl Alper (Northeastern University)
In this panel, we are keen to explore all media and technologies aimed at and/or used by young people (generally birth through late teens), as well as the contextual issues surrounding this selection and use, especially as it pertains to disability and disruption.
Title and 150-word abstract for your paper
100-word bio for each author
Proposed Panel Chair: Katie Ellis (Curtin University)
In this panel we are keen to explore questions of disability across various aspects of health communications, especially in questions of disrupting questions of health communications across society.
Title and 150-word abstract
100-word bio for each author
Proposed Panel Chair: Kuansong Victor ZHUANG (Nanyang Technological University)
In this panel we are keen to explore how new and emergent infocomms technologies, especially its adoption, use, applications, and effects, disrupt existing ways of knowing and understanding disability.
Note that submissions to CAT should focus on an understanding of ICTs, with a focus on the technology itself within the context of human communication.
Title and a 75-word abstract
100-word bio for each author
Proposed Panel Chair: Remi M. Yergeau (U of Michigan)
In this panel, we are keen to consider how crip theory can offer a lens to think critically about communication and media.
Title and 350-word (max) abstract
100-word bio for each author
Proposed Panel Chair: Beth Haller (Towson U)
In this panel we are keen to consider disability and disruption within the domain of popular media culture.
Title and 150-word abstract
100-word bio for each author
Proposed Panel Chair: Elizabeth Ellcessor (U of Virginia)
In this panel, we are keen to explore questions of disability (and also disruptions) especially as it pertains to the critical study of the history, organization, structure, economics, management, and socio-cultural impact of media industries, engaging with research related to multimodal industrial aspects of media – including, but not limited to: film, television, digital media, social media, radio, music, podcasts, publishing, news, media infrastructures, electronic games, livestreaming, and mobile audio-visualities.
Title and 150-word abstract
100-word bio for each author