Disability and the Internet: access, mediation, representation
One-day symposium, 5 December 2008
Jointly organised with Cultural Disability Studies Research Network 
To register for this event please contact info@cdsrn.org.uk Due to limited places early registration is recommended. To download registration form please click here (opens as MS Word document)For directions please click here (opens as MS Word document)
Proramme
9.30-10.00 Registration & Coffee
10.00-11.00 Plenary One
Building an inclusive web: the role of web producers in facilitating access for web consumers
Dr Helen Kennedy, Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds
11.0 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 12.15 Panel Session One
Disability 2.0: Facebook, the Academy and Student (dis)Connections
Sarah Lewthwaite, University of Nottingham
Teaching Disability and the Internet: Reflecting on Pedagogic Experience
Ria Cheyne, Liverpool John Moores University
12:15 – 1.15 Lunch
1.15 – 2.15 Panel Session Two
Discovering the Autistic tribes, new territories for the Internet Anthropologist: Perspectives of Autonomy and Autochthoneity in the 21st century.
Larry Arnold, University of Birmingham
Online Resistance: an examination of how Embodied Health Movements are using the internet for campaign purposes, taking Gulf War Syndrome victims as a case study
Davey Curnow-Garland, Lancaster University
2.15- 2.30 Coffee2.30 -3.30 Plenary Two
VIP 2.0? Disability, Technology and Disadvantage in Digital Culture
Ben Light, School of Media Music and Performance/IS, Organisations and Society Research Centre, University of Salford
Peter Wheeler, Edge Hill Business School, Edge Hill University
3.30- 4.00 Closing Remarks
For further details please conact
Irene Rose (CDSRN coordinator) or
Adi Kuntsman (MA seminars coordinator)
