by Nadjha Johnson on 2014-01-29
Guest speaker Beth Haller came out to the Orton Center at the University of Redlands, to enlighten students and faculty on the concerns of how the disabled community is represented in the media. Haller began with familiarizing the audience on her book, "Representing Disability in an Ableist World, Essays on Mass Media." Haller’s discussion followed the succession of her book, which covers topics of advertising, news, entertainment television, film and Internet new media. Haller, a professor of Journalism/New Media at Towson University in Maryland, has harnessed the media on concerns and issues of the disabled with her plethora of research.
Haller opened up the dialogue for those who wanted to share their views or ask questions. When she was asked if she considers diabetes as a type of disability due to the limitations and stereotypes associated with it, she explained that diabetes can be considered a disability depending on if an individual identifies him or herself as disabled.
Haller began by analyzing American society in the 1990s when the news media only began to understand the concept of “inclusion” in education for disabled students. She discussed disability humor and how disability is utilized in advertising images.
She closed her speech with an examination of how "social media changes the conversation in that it helps get the message out" at a rate faster than ever before, Haller said. She described social media as an outlet available to everyone, presenting the opportunity to pull disability activists together and keep the public informed.
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Guest Speaker: Beth Haller
Event Type: Featured Event
Location: Orton Center
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Calendar:
University of Redlands Events
Contact:
Leela MadhavaRau
leela_madhavarau@redlands.edu
909-748-8285
Department: CDI
Beth Haller is Professor of Journalism and New Media in the Department of Mass Communication & Communication Studies at Towson University in Maryland, where she has been a full-time faculty member since 1996. She is the author of Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media (Advocado Press, 2010). She is also the former co-editor of the Society for Disability Studies’ scholarly journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, (2003-2006). She is adjunct faculty for the City University of New York’s Disability Studies master’s program and for York University’s Critical Disability Studies graduate program in Toronto. Haller currently maintains a blog on disability issues in the news, Media dis&dat.
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Guest speaker Beth Haller came out to the Orton Center at University of Redlands to enlighten students and faculty on the concerns of how the disabled community are represented in the media. Haller began with familiarizing the audience on her book, Representing Disability in an Ableist World, Essays on Mass Media. Haller’s discussion followed the succession of her book discussing advertising, news, entertainment television, film and Internet new media. Beth Haller is Professor of Journalism/New Media at Towson University in Maryland. Haller has harnessed the media on concerns and issues of the disabled with her plethora of research.
Haller opened up the dialogue for those who wanted to share their views or ask questions. When she was asked if she considers diabetes as a type of disability due to the limitations and stereotypes associated with it, she explained that diabetes can be considered a disability depending if an individual identifies him or her self as disable. Haller began by analyzing American society in the 1990s when the news media only began to understand the concept of “inclusion” in education for disabled students. She discussed disability humor and how disability is utilized in ad images. She closed her speech examining how ‘social media changes the conversation in’ that it helps get the message out’ at a rate faster than ever before. She describes social media as outlet available to everyone that pulls disability activists together and keeps the public informed.