The Inaugural Disability Communications and Media Preconference 2024 – Emerging or Emerged?

Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre (GCCEC), Australia - June 20th, 2024

Opening Keynote: “Ring Those Phones!”: Exploring the Evolution of Telethons in Crip Times

8:30 AM - 8:50 AM. Chair: Gerard Goggin

• Chelsea Temple Jones

• Beth Haller

• Rebekah Norman

Panel A: Reflections on the States and Futures of Disability-centred Research

8:50 AM - 9:55 AM. Chair: Valquiria Ramos Obregón

• Deaf Spotlight: A Content Analysis of Portrayals of Deafness in Film across a Decade - Tahleen Lattimer

• Disability Stereotypes from The Silver Screen to The Phone Screen: A Meta-Analysis of Disability Representation Propelling Social Media Algorithms - Luda Gogolushko

• Continuing to Crip Disability-Centered Communication and Media Research: A Methodological Meditation - Kim Fernandes

• Communication and disability research in Hispanoamerica: an interdisciplinary question - Sandra Meléndez-Labrador

• Towards a post-cure agenda for centring disability in virtual reality research - Wenqi Tan

Panel B: Institutional Mediations of Disability and Communication

10:10 AM - 10:50 AM. Chair: Katie Ellis 

• You don’t say: Perilous communication in public health education - Tanya Titchkosky

• Articulations of an institution: Attending to the violence of mundanity and disability narrated as a dangerous site of emergency - Elaine Cagulada

• Unboxing disability communication: exploring the emerging methodological contours of critical disability research in public health archives -Aparna Menon

Panel C: Disability as Practice: Art, Activism, Performance, and Sports

10:50 AM - 11:55 AM. Chair: Kelly Moes 

• Archive and repertoires of disability in the framework of the Chilean social outbreak - Constanza López Radrigán

• Making Disability Art in the City: Care Work, Tactical Media, and Crip Activism as Reflective Epistemology—A Process Paper by Jaggar DeMarco 

• Feminist disability studies and the Brazilian media coverage of 2020 Paralympic Games - Tatiane Hilgemberg

• “Cripped Articulative Practice: Building Educational Networks Across Time and Space through Multimodal Communication and Media” - Cara Wieland

• “Invisible Aspects of Disability and Neurodiversity”: Reflections on curating a disability arts exhibition, representation, and participatory research - Ria Gualano

Panel D: Parrhesia, Propaganda, and Poop: Reflections on Candid Crip Media

12:40 PM - 1:20 PM. Chair: Victor Zhuang

• David Adelman

• Pratiksha Menon

• M. Remi Yergeau 

Panel E: Identity, Community, and Resistance: Movements Across Mediums

1:20 PM - 2:25 PM. Chair: Umar Syaroni

• #SayTheWord: Resisting disability erasure and stigma through hashtag movements - Ashleigh Haw

• “Information can’t always save us”: Alternative epistemologies of information activism in online disability communities - Emma May

• Drawing Strength: The Power of Disabled-Centered Media for Activism and Community-Building - Kevin Tran, Taylor Davies, Bianca Guillen, Emily Doffing, Aaron Lam, Danielle Kohfeldt

• Disability-assemblage: Jugaad techniques of cinematic experiences of visually challenged and partially sighted students - Heena Kausar, M Shuaib Mohamed Haneef

• Reframing Representation: Exploring How Popular Media Portrayals Impact Autistic Women's Identities and Experiences - Jill Wurm

Panel F: Methods in Cross-cutting Disability Research

2:40 PM - 3:20 PM. Chair: Tay Sze Hwee Jace

• Disability Representations in Mass Media: a two-axis alternative to stereotype analysis - Valquiria Ramos Obregón

• DISABILITY AS METHOD: Engaging virtual chronic illness communities in research about them - Kelly Moes

• Reconsidering Infrastructure of Accessibility: A Generative and Relational Analysis of a Museum Accessibility Project for Visually-impaired People in China - Ke Ma, Yu Jiang

• Inclusive communication in disability-led research with young migrants with disability in Australia - Bella Choo

Panel G: Studying Digitality, Representations, and Communication through Disability Perspectives

3:40 PM - 4:45 PM. Chair: Wenqi Tan

• How invisible disability perspective can improve social media health communication: An Australian case study - Stephanie Mantilla

• Speaking the Digital Language: Neurodivergent perspectives on digital employment- Tay Sze Hwee Jace

• Disability, Media Literacy, and digital inclusion: A qualitative exploration of experiences of people with disability in Joza Township - Bimbo L. Fafowora

• Shaping Disability Identity and Public Perception: Analysing the Dominant Models of Disabilities in Nollywood Films - Ngozi Marion Emmanuel

• Address an absence: to know, understand and co-construct digital access in Italy - Fabiana Battisti