Superb visual representation of a Marxist georgraphy professor (David Harvey) explaining what’s wrong with capitalism. I was watching it and very interested in how the visuals were working with the speech…
Please see the “Activities” tab above for details of the forthcoming inVisio seminar at Surrey, UK on ‘Computer Analysis of Visual Data’ on Thurs 5th August. Places FREE 
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http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/9-1/9-1decocketal.pdf
Interesting article with accompanying image archive (see also their paper in a 2001 issue of the journal)
Sam Warren and Beatriz Acevedo present the 28th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS) which takes Vision as a central motif of contemporary management practice. We invite delegates to think of vision and organisation as conceptual, ideological and metaphorical practice. We want to inspire you to broaden your vision of vision beyond that which is ‘just’ symbolic. Visit the conference website at www.scos.org/2010/ for the full Call for Papers and further details.
The first ever special issue related to visual issues in accounting research has been published by AAAJ this week. Click here to go to the online table of contents. Guest editors are Sam Warren & Jane Davison. Enjoy!
Quattrone, P. (2009), “Books to be practiced: Memory, the power of the visual, and the success of accounting”, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 34, pp. 85-118.
Davison, J. (2008) “Repetition, rhetoric, reporting and the ‘dot.com’ era: words, pictures, intangibles”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 21 No. 6, pp. 791-826.
Davison, J. (2007), “Photographs and accountability: cracking the codes of an NGO”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 133-158.
Parker, L. (2006), “Photo-elicitation: an ethno-historical accounting and management research project”, Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Accounting Conference, Cardiff.
Davison, J. (2004), “Sacred vestiges in financial reporting. Mythical readings guided by Mircea Eliade”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 476-497.
Beattie, V. A. and Jones, M. J. (2002), “Measurement distortion of graphs in corporate reports: an experimental study”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 546-564.
Davison, J. (2002), “Communication and antithesis in corporate annual reports. A research note”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 594-608.
Preston, A. M. and Oakes, L. (2001), “The Navajo documents: a study of the economic representation and construction of the Navajo”, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 39-71.
Mouritsen, J., Larsen, H. T. & Bukh, P. N. D. (2001), “Intellectual capital and the ‘capable firm’: narrating, visualising and numbering for managing knowledge”, Accounting, Organizations and Society 26, pp. 735-762.
Preston, A. M. and Young, J. J. (2000), “Constructing the global corporation and corporate constructions of the global: a picture essay”, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 25 No. 4, pp. 427-449.
Graves, O, F., Flesher, D. L. and Jordan R. E. (1996), “Pictures and the bottom line: the television epistemology of US annual reports”, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 57-88.
Hopwood, A. G. (1996), “Making visible and the construction of visibilities: shifting agendas in the design of the corporate report: Introduction”, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 21 No 1, pp. 55-56.
McKinstry, S. (1996), “Designing the annual reports of Burton plc from 1930 to 1994”,Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 89-111.
Preston, A. M., Wright, C. and Young, J. J. (1996), “Imag[in]ing Annual Reports”, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 113-137.
Beattie V. A. and Jones, M. J. (1992), “The Use and Abuse of Graphs in Annual Reports: a Theoretical Framework and Empirical Study”, Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 22 No. 88, pp. 291-303.