Jonathan Schroeder came across this interesting site the other day – lots of fascinating posts and I think you can send your work to them for publication on the blog too…. http://viz.cwrl.utexas.edu/content/about-viz
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)
I will present on “Virtual and Visual: Performing the Online Interview” at The Qualitative Report’s 3rd Annual Conference, which will be held at Nova Southeastern University on January 13 and 14, 2012. “Creativity and the Qualitative Researcher” is the theme for TQR 2012, offering an opportunity to explore questions of creativity and the qualitative researcher by featuring works of and on qualitative inquiry that exemplify the ingenuity of this diverse body of work and practitioners.
My presentation will explore visual research methods in online interviews conducted with synchronous, rich media technologies. I’ll draw on the Typology of Online Visual Research I introduced in Online Interviews in Real Time. I hope to see you there!
Want to know more about how computer software can help analyse Visual Data? A free 2-day conference (including meals and accommodation!) at the Uni. of Surrey, UK. See this link for more details:
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
The NCRM funded Qualitative Innovations in CAQDAS (QUIC) and Day Courses in Social Research are running a new introductory hand-on workshop on analysing multimedia data using CAQDAS packages.
20 October 2010 Multi-media Analysis Introductory day course, Christina Silver & Christine Rivers
10.00am – 16.30pm, University of Surrey, Guildford, SurreyFor more information see http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/calendar.html
Sam Warren asked me to post the presentation software I used at the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism 2010 (SCOS) in Lille. The software is called Prezi and it is a good alternative to Powerpoint as it uses a zoom function instead of slides. University staff can get a free online license! If you are looking for a less linear way to present this might be an option.
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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