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[ecrea] ICA Young Scholars Preconference on Visual Methods
Wed Dec 10 08:29:04 GMT 2014
Call for Papers
for the ICA Young Scholars Preconference on
Visual Methods
Universidad del Turabo (Caguas, Puerto Rico)
21 May 2015
Sponsored by the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division, the
Universidad del Turabo (Caguas, Puerto Rico), the Hans Bredow Institute
for Media Research at the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the
Institut de la Comunicació at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Organizers: Michael Grimm & Maria Luna
Rationale
In the field of communication studies, mediated images are becoming
increasingly important and receive more and more attention from a
diverse range of scholars throughout the sub-disciplines covered by ICA
– as mirrored by buzzwords like “visual turn” or “pictorial turn”
(Mitchell, 2005): Political Communication e.g. is interested in the
depiction of politicians and their nonverbal behavior (Grabe & Bucy,
2009), Health Communication e.g. analyzes how obesity is visually framed
(Atanasova, Gunter & Koteyko, 2013), Environmental Communication e.g.
focuses on the portrayal of climate change (Grittmann, 2014; Manzo,
2009) and Popular Communication e.g. examines the role of visual
stereotypes in mass media (Kitch, 2001).
This increasing attention on mediated images makes it necessary to find
or develop ways to adequately analyze visuals and to make the
methodological procedures of studying them reproducible. At the same
time, there are specifics to mediated images (such as their associative,
holistic and non-linear logic compared to the linear-sequential logic of
texts, Müller, 2007; comp. Messaris & Abraham, 2001) that often make it
challenging to analyze them with traditional methods of communication
studies. Accordingly, these methods have either to be adapted to the
specifics of visual communication (like in the case of visual content
analysis; comp. Bell, 2001), or creative and innovative methods have to
be developed.
As the field of visual methods is however still in its establishing
process (for an overview: Rose, 2012; van Leeuwen & Jewitt, 2001), it is
a challenge for young scholars from all ICA sub-disciplines to get an
overview on the transdisciplinary potentials and limitations of
particular methods. Furthermore, scholars studying mediated images are
scattered throughout the diverse divisions and interest groups, which
makes it even harder for young scholars to discuss challenges associated
with visual methods with their respective peers and leaves synergies
between the different sub-fields underused.
This preconference will therefore bring together young scholars from all
ICA divisions and interest groups who deal with mediated images in their
research projects. The event aims ...
* to give an overview on the potentials, challenges and limitations
of different visual methods in order to account for the increasingly
important role of analyzing mediated images throughout communication
studies,
* to provide a forum for a common discussion on a current
methodological topic of diverse sub-disciplines of communication studies
in order to contribute to ICA’s striving for cross-divisional
cooperation, and
* to connect and foster young scholars across all ICA divisions and
interest groups by bringing them together with peers who are facing
similar challenges as well as with experienced senior scholars who are
experts with regard to particular visual methods.
Format
The preconference will consist of two formats: A poster session and an
experts’ session.
In the poster session, young scholars will have the opportunity to
present research projects in which they apply visual methods, to discuss
their methodology with other participants and to receive substantial
feedback on their projects from experienced senior scholars. All young
and senior scholars will participate in the poster session, so the
format will provide a practice-oriented overview on the range of
traditional as well as creative and innovative visual methods and their
applications.
In the experts’ session, young scholars will have the chance to discuss
the transdisciplinary potentials and limitations of particular visual
methods with respective senior scholars who hold extensive expertise
with regard to these methods. Therefore, young scholars who apply
similar visual methods in their projects will be grouped together and
will be matched with respectively experienced senior scholars. The
groups will then discuss the particular potentials, challenges and
limitations of these methods based on the research projects presented in
the posters.
Senior Experts
Several senior scholars with extensive experience in visual methods will
support the preconference, providing for a broad coverage of the field
and assuring for the best fit of young scholars’ interests and senior
scholars’ expertise:
* Giorgia Aiello, University of Leeds, UK
* Mary A. Bock, University of Texas (Austin, TX), USA
* Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economics and Political
Science, UK
* Shahira Fahmy, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), USA
* Paul Frosh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
* Robert Hariman, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), USA
* John Lucaites, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), USA
* Marion G. Müller, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
* Carmen Oquendo Villar, Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico
Submissions
We invite young scholars from all ICA divisions and interest groups to
submit extended abstracts on completed projects as well as on works in
progress, focusing on the application of visual methods in their
research. We welcome submissions on a broad range of visual methods,
both, traditional as well as creative and innovative. These may
comprise, but are not restricted to:
* compositional interpretation
* visual content analysis
* social semiotic analysis
* visual discourse analysis
* visual narrative analysis
* cultural analysis
* ethnographic analysis
* photo-documentation
* photo-elicitation
* photo- and video-essays
* picture sorting studies
* eye-tracking studies
To anticipate the research tradition of the host country Puerto Rico, we
also explicitly encourage submissions that reflect visual methods in
line with current Latin American research (e.g. video-essays,
audiovisual thinking, creative documentary and film studies).
Extended abstracts should briefly summarize relevance, theory and
results (where applicable), and strongly focus on the methodological
procedures of the research project. Please specifically highlight and
discuss the potentials, challenges and limitations of the applied visual
methods in the context of the respective study. Submissions may describe
the application of one, multiple or mixed visual methods in any stage of
the visual communication process (production context, media context,
reception context) or even on multiple stages.
Extended abstracts should be limited to a maximum of 1,000 words
(double-spaced; illustrations, tables and references do not count
against this total of words). Please remove all identifying information
from the document and include a separate title page indicating the
name(s) of the author(s), the title of the project, and the status quo
of the project (e.g. completed project, work in progress).
Please send your submissions via e-mail to
(m.grimm /at/ hans-bredow-institut.de) and (MariaFernanda.Luna /at/ uab.cat) by 23
January 2015. Decisions will be made by 15 February 2015. The
preconference will be open for up to 25 young scholars in order to
assure a productive group size. Participants will be selected based on
the quality of their extended abstracts. In the review process, we will
also consider that a reasonable range of visual methods will be covered
by the poster presentations and that participants can be grouped in
clusters with similar interests.
Publication of Proceedings
In cooperation with the Institute of Communication Studies (In-Com) at
the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), there will be an option
to publish the revised presentations as full papers of a special issue
e-book on visual methods on the website www.portalcomunicacion.com after
the preconference. The well-positioned website is supported by the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Catalan Government and
publishes academic content with a focus on Latin American audiences, so
it is a perfect platform to communicate the outcomes of the event to the
host country. The publication will foster cross-disciplinary
understanding and may serve as proceedings in the growing field of
visual methods.
Venue
The preconference will be hosted on the campus of the Unversidad del
Turabo in Caguas, which is about a half an hour ride from the conference
hotels in San Juan. Bus transportation for participants will be provided.
Fee
There will be a US$ 25 fee for participants of the preconference to
cover the costs for transportation, snacks and drinks.
Website
Please also visit the accompanying website www.visualmethods.net for any
updates on the preconference.
Contact
Michael Grimm
Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research
at the University of Hamburg (Germany)
(m.grimm /at/ hans-bredow-institut.de)
Maria Luna
Institute of Communication Studies (In-Com)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
(MariaFernanda.Luna /at/ uab.cat)
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