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Visualizing Science and Environment
Symposium organised by the Science and Environment Communication Section,
ECREA, in association with the Media Research Group, Faculty of Arts,
University of Brighton, UK
Venue: University of Brighton, UK, 17-18 November 2011
From the DNA double helix, to climate model simulations, to media footage of
environmental protest, images play a central role in the construction and
communication of scientific and environmental matters. However, the visual
dimensions of science and environment communication are often overlooked in
research. What forms of knowledge and understanding do images produce,
facilitate and/or constrain when it comes to issues of science and the
environment? How are the visual dimensions of science and environmental
communication approached differently across diverse fields such as the
physical sciences, the social sciences and the humanities? This symposium
will explore the visual dimensions of science and environmental
communication by addressing questions of knowledge, understanding, practice
and power, through the visual.
We invite formal papers and creative contributions (such as artwork and
short performances) from academics and practitioners that examine the role
of the visual in the construction and communication of science and the
environment. We welcome work from a variety of theoretical and
methodological perspectives, from the natural sciences to the social
sciences and creative arts. Of particular interest is work that involves
collaboration and dialogue across different areas, such as art and science,
or academia and civil society groups.
Topics for exploration may include, but are not restricted to, the
following:
· The visual representation of environmental problems – by the media,
NGOs, corporations, citizens and/or activists
· Visual representations of environmental activism and the use of the
visual by activists
· Filmic/televisual/creative arts engagements with science and the
environment
· Visual construction of science, medicine and the medicalised body
· Image selection criteria used by news and website editors to
represent science and environmental issues
· The interplay of visual representations with verbal/aural codes in
science and environment communication
· The characteristics of visual representation of science and the
environment in digital media and their exploration by multiple users
· The influence of visual elements on the process of reading multimodal
messages about science and the environment
· Public responses to different forms of visualizing science and the
environment
· Creative dialogues across disciplines as a means of creating new ways
of visualising science and the environment
Please send a 200 word abstract to Julie Doyle <[log in to unmask]> ,
Anabela Carvalho <[log in to unmask]> and Louise Phillips
<[log in to unmask]> by 30 June 2011
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