ANZCA Salon: Gaming Disability with Katie Ellis

Activity: Service and engagementPublic lecture, debate or seminar

Description

Katie Ellis is Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. Her research is located at the intersection of media access and representation and engages with government, industry and community to ensure actual benefits for real people with disability. She has authored or edited 17 books and numerous articles on the topic of disability and the media, including most recently the monograph Disability and Digital Television Cultures (Routledge, 2019). In this ANZCASalon (WA) Katie will discuss her forthcoming collection (Routledge, 2023, edited with Mike Kent and Tama Leaver), Gaming Disability: Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games and how it brings together the access, representation and inclusive community strands of her previous investigations of disability and digital media.
Period8 Aug 2022
Held atAustralian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA)
Degree of RecognitionRegional