CHID 496 B: Focus Groups

Winter 2022
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Meeting:
F 4:30pm - 6:20pm
SLN:
12470
Section Type:
Seminar
Instructor:
DISSING MEDIA: WE WILL PAIR MODERN REPRESENTATIONS OF DISABILITY IN DIGITAL MEDIA WITH THE WORK OF MODE DISABILITY ACTIVISTS TO DISSECT HOW THESE DEPICTIONS CONNEC TO OUR PERCEPTIONS AND HOW THOSE PERCEPTIONS TRANSLATE INTO ACTIONS.
Catalog Description:
Credit/no-credit only.
Credits:
2.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
November 4, 2025 - 7:14 am

Focus Group Description

Class Title: Dissing Media
Student Facilitator: Courtney Cole
Email: crc97@uw.edu
Supervised by: Phillip Thurtle

Digital media can make a huge contribution to building and breaking ideas and stereotypes. The ways that society has treated disability and disabled people is problematic. One way we can start to confront this reality is to examine the messages we receive about disability on a daily basis.This quarter, we’ll be doing just that. We’ll pair modern representations of disability in digital media with the work of a range of modern disability activists to dissect how these depictions connect to our perceptions and how those perceptions translate into actions.