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BOUNDARIES, BYTES AND BALLYHOO:
VISUAL SOCIOLOGY, NEW MEDIA, AND PUBLIC INFORMATION
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interest.)
2001 Annual Conference
International Visual Sociology Association
July 11 - 15, 2001
School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
University of Minnesota
CONFERENCE THEME
Over the past several years, new media have transformed the nature and
distribution of public information. This is even more the case for images
called upon to serve public information functions as icons, data,
instances, arguments and accounts. New media have the potential to
redefine these functions and to alter traditional relationships between
image-based research, teaching and public service. The new media also have
implications for how social research, documentary work and journalism are
defined and practiced, both locally and globally.
The International Visual Sociology Association invites scholars and
practitioners from a wide range of fields to join us in examining these
issues at our 2001 annual meeting, July 11 through 15 at the University of
Minnesota's newly refurbished School of Journalism Mass Communication.
We invite, in particular, proposals for papers and sessions that would
address such questions as:
- In what ways is the growth of new media changing relationships between
scholars and practitioners in the visual arts, journalism, film, video
and media studies, art history, sociology, anthropology, psychology,
education and the like?
- What do changes of this sort portend for the practice of local, regional
and global image-making and social research?
- What implications do these changes have for traditional boundaries
between visual sociology, documentary work and public affairs journalism?
- What implications do these changes have for relationships between
image-based researchers and their research subjects?
- How are existing ideas about public and private imagery being affected
by new media?
- And what implications do answers to these questions have for how we
think about image-based research and visual representations of social life?
CONFERENCE FORMAT
The IVSA organizes its annual meetings to promote collegiality and
interdisciplinary exchange. Papers are organized into thematic panels and
presented before the entire group. Most often, there are no competing
concurrent panels. Participants have fifteen to twenty minutes to
deliver their paper, and time is allocated for questions at the end of each
panel. The program committee is especially interested in papers that
display visual information and data. Papers may be based on still or moving
images, and their focus may include history, theory, empirical research,
methodology, pedagogy, technique, policy issues and practical applications.
The conference program may include film screenings in the evenings,
exhibitions of photography or multimedia work, as well as hands-on
workshops led by accomplished practitioners in various aspects of the craft
of visual sociology.
SUBMITTING PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS
The IVSA program committee welcomes the submission of papers that examine
the conference theme and related issues in image-based research. We also
welcome suggestions for thematic sessions that group a number of papers (a
maximum of five) around a relevant aspect or theme. Please provide a short
description of the session with paper abstracts. Finally we offer the
opportunity to introduce and show visual sociological and documentary
films, video, photography and multimedia during special screening and
exhibition sessions. Send details (title, contents, duration, format) about
your production if you are interested in this opportunity.
Proposals for papers, sessions and media screenings should be sent by
e-mail to [log in to unmask] or by postal mail to:
Dona Schwartz
University of Minnesota
111 Murphy Hall
206 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
USA
If submitting by mail, please send two copies of the abstract or session
theme, and include a copy of the abstract or session theme on a diskette.
DEADLINES
Abstracts and proposals for papers, sessions and films must be received by
March 15, 2001. Earlier submissions are encouraged, as proposals will be
reviewed as they are received.
Yannis Scarpelos
Lecturer, Panteion University
Dept. of Communication and Mass Media
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.panteion.gr/~gskarp
Visit the official site of the International Visual Sociology Association:
http://www.visualsociology.org
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