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		<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->{"id":34,"date":"2008-06-27T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slewth.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/27\/christopher-newell-tributes\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T10:55:58","slug":"christopher-newell-tributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/christopher-newell-tributes\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Newell Tributes"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\t<!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\tshowOdiogoReadNowButton (\"687068\", \"Christopher Newell Tributes\", \"34\", 290, 55);\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<br\/>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\tshowInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (\"687068\", \"34\", 290, 0);\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t\n<p>I recently heard the sad news that Australian academic Christopher Newell has died at the age of 44.&nbsp; Many tributes are being paid through the Society for Disability Studies lists and elsewhere, and Beth Haller has pulled together obituaries and a full collection of references to Newell&#8217;s work at her Media-dis-n-dat blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/australia-loses-top-bioethicist.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/australia-loses-top-bioethicist.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I knew very little about Christopher Newell, having only read his publications in the field of disability and communication technologies. I now discover this was only a fraction of the important work that Newell constributed to Disability Studies and wider academe.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>For me, his book 2003 book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Digital-Disability-Construction-Critical-Institutions\/dp\/0742518442\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1214559554&amp;sr=8-1\">Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media<\/a>,<\/em> written with Gerard Goggin, is still the seminal text for those examining this digital divide and was the first concrete text I could find that distinguished disabled experience against more generic socio-cultural critiques of embodiment in virtual spaces.&nbsp; It is still a landmark in understanding regarding the intersection between disability and new media.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\t<!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\tshowOdiogoReadNowButton (\"687068\", \"Christopher Newell Tributes\", \"34\", 290, 55);\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<br\/>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\tshowInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (\"687068\", \"34\", 290, 0);\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t\n<p>I recently heard the sad news that Australian academic Christopher Newell has died at the age of 44.&nbsp; Many tributes are being paid through the Society for Disability Studies lists and elsewhere, and Beth Haller has pulled together obituaries and a full collection of references to Newell&#8217;s work at her Media-dis-n-dat blog at http:\/\/media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/australia-loses-top-bioethicist.html. 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