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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Media Culture Journal issue: Able available online


M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Issues are written about a single word topic.

The July 2008 issue of Media Culture journal is available online. It contains the following articles on the topic - Able:

EDITORIAL: Disabling Able - Liz Ferrier, Viv Muller
FEATURE: Refusing Able(ness): A Preliminary Conversation about Ableism - Fiona Kumari Campbell
Mobilising the Monster: Modern Disabled Performers' Manipulation of the Freakshow - Bree Hadley
Disability, Heroism and Australian National Identity - Martin Mantle
Enabling the Auteurial Voice in Dance Me to My Song - D. Bruno Starrs
Ars Moriendi, the Erotic Self and AIDS - Catalina Florescu
Creating Visible Children? - Nicole Mathews
Shattering the Hearing Wall - Donna McDonald
Amniocentesis and Motherhood: How Prenatal Testing Shapes Our Cultural Understandings of Pregnancy and Disability - Fiona Place
Able to Live, Laugh and Love - Veronica Wain
iTunes Is Pretty (Useless) When You're Blind: Digital Design Is Triggering Disability When It Could Be a Solution - Katie Ellis, Mike Kent
Innovation and Disability - Gerard Goggin
Is There an End to Out-Able? Is There an End to the Rat Race for Abilities? - Gregor Wolbring

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm a clergy member who reads your blog regularly. What I like about it is that you provide information like this so I can better understand the issues. Thank you.

Ruth said...

Very glad you've become a reader. Thanks for the comment.