🇬🇧 Edge Hill Linguistics Research Group Webinar on Media Representations of Blindness

Location: United Kingdom
Deadline: 2025-03-25

Join the Edge Hill Linguistics Research Group webinar on ‘Media Representations of Blindness in UK Newspapers: A Corpus-Based Study’ on 26th March.

The Edge Hill University Linguistics Research Group Speaker Series presents a webinar titled ‘Media Representations of Blindness in UK Newspapers: A Corpus-Based Study’ on Thursday, 26th March, 2-3pm via Teams.

Speakers Dr Costas Gabrielatos and Dr Valeria Occelli will discuss their study on the portrayal of blindness in UK newspapers and its influence on public representations.

• The study analyzed the Blindness UK Press Corpus, comprising articles from 2014 to 2023 across ten national UK newspapers.
• Results show blind individuals are rarely granted agency or voice, and references to blindness are largely metaphorical and negative.

Register here by 5pm on Wednesday, 25th March.

For queries, email Dr Imogen Marcus: marcusi@edgehill.ac.uk.

Tags: Linguistics Research, Corpus-Based Study, Media Representations, Blindness, UK Newspapers, Edge Hill University, Webinar, United Kingdom