The International Visual Sociology Association’s annual 2012 meeting is in New York, July 6-9th. You can see the call for papers here. Perhaps if inVisio members are going they could reply to this post and hook up at the conference – it would also be great if you anyone going could email swarren@essex.ac.uk so I can equip you with promotional inVisio materials to litter the coffee break hall with!
A brief article in Visual Communication Quarterly.
“I feel the need to give back to the community and I like to offer
my expertise in the field as a professional photographer. Most
unemployed people do not have the money to go out and get a
professional photograph”
reference: Albany, M. (2010). Business Portraits for the Unemployed. Visual Communication Quarterly, 17(4), 252-253. doi:10.1080/15551393.2010.515459
Saturday, 12 November 2011 from 14.00 to 15.30 GMT an online workshop is dedicated to visual research projects that explore issues of power: ”The Chair. Visual Encounters with Power”
Organizers: MAGMA Contemporary Medium, SEMEISTOS Web-Semiotics Research Group
Online presentations of 10-15 minutes via Skype are welcome, and/or offline written presentations of visual research projects that are aimed at exploring leadership, power, and status issues. We intend to publish these presentations as an e-book and make them available for broader audiences. A live streaming of the workshop will be available at: http://www.livestream.com/magmalive
For details, please contact Rozi Bakó at bako.rozi@gmail.com.
From an interesting website, Mashable, a story of the transformation of venerable British firm Burberry’s transition a ‘media company’. I have been interested in Burberry since their early 2000s rebranding, largely via black and white ’snapshot’ advertising campaigns. http://mashable.com/2011/09/21/burberry-media-fashion-company/?utm_source=iphoneapp
The 5th William A. Kern Conference on Visual Communication
Rochester Institute of Technology
May 3-5, 2012
When Images Cause Trouble: Visual Communication, Controversy, and Critical Engagement
Call for Papers
When do images cause trouble? One purpose of this conference is to discuss recent controversies in visual communication, including photojournalism, social media, advertising, and the visual arts, invoking issues of privacy, security, censorship, freedom of expression, and religious belief. In addition, as concerns over the power of images are not new, we would seek to historicize and contextualize current debates with historical perspectives, including, as an illustrative example, iconoclasm and the Protestant reformation in Europe –particularly Puritan image smashing in England during the 16th and 17th centuries. Following in the tradition of Kern conferences, we plan a rich program of interdisciplinary scholarship and conversation.
We invite submissions that address this theme from multiple points of views. How does work in visual communication, visual culture, visual rhetoric, and related fields shed light on controversial issues that surround the production and consumption of images? How can we understand current events in a historical perspective? What are the roles of regulation, oversight, government, and grass roots organizations in thinking seriously about images? What roles do technologies of surveillance play? How can we think about the ethics of representation?
Individual papers, visual presentations, panels and workshop proposals are welcomed.
Send extended abstracts (500 – 2500 words) via email to Jonathan Schroeder (jesgla@rit.edu).
Jonathan E. Schroeder
William A. Kern Professor of Communications
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York 14623
The International Journal of Work, Organization and Emotion will be publishing the first ever collection of articles specifically interrogating the sensory nature of work and organizational culture(s).
Click here for the Call for Papers.
We’d particularly welcome papers from inVisio members that explore the interface between the visual and our other senses. Please drop me a line on swarren@essex.ac.uk if you want to chat informally about a submission. The editing team includes Prof Gavin Jack (La Trobe University, Australia), Kathleen Riach (Uni of Essex, UK), Antonio Strati (Uni of Trento, Italy) and me – Samantha Warren (Uni of Essex, UK)
Dear inVisio members… please find attached a call for papers for a journal special issue on ‘Vision’ edited by Dr Beatriz Acevedo and Prof. Sam Warren. Submissions due 29th April 2011
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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Scarles, C. (2004). “Mediating Landscapes: The Practices and Processes of Image Construction in Tourist Brochures of Scotland”, Tourist Studies, Vol.4(1): 43-67.