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Visual Studies seeks to enhance the understanding of the visual
in all its forms -- moving and still images and displays in television,
video and film, art and design, and print and digital media. The Division
sponsors research in creation, processing, function, meaning, and critical
consequences of visual representation. Visual Studies research
touches on all other communication fields, investigating such areas
as the interaction of the visual with public policy and law, mass communication
processes, corporate image and organization, technology and human interaction,
elite and popular culture, philosophy of communication, education and
the social sphere. The Division reaches beyond content to assure visual
analyses are grounded solidly in visual theory and methodology. The
Visual Studies Division publishes a biannual newsletter to keep members abreast of the
field and its various scholarly societies.
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Call for Papers for the 61th Annual ICA Conference, Boston, MA, May 26-30 2011
VISUAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES DIVISION
Program Chair:
Michael Griffin
Macalester college
Email: mgriffi1@macalester.edu
DEAR MEMBERS,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to the Visual Communication Studies Division for next year's ICA in Boston.
The Conference Theme for ICA 2011 in Boston is Communication @ the Center. If it once was possible - as many in the academy did and some still do - to view communication studies as peripheral to the central mission and focus of the academic universe, that is no longer a defensible position. Communication studies can rightfully claim a central role not only in the basic general education of an informed citizenry, but also in understanding and clarifying many of the central challenges of our rapidly changing world.
The Visual Communication Studies Division of ICA seeks to enhance the understanding of the visual in all its communicational forms, from still and moving images and displays in television, video, film, and photography; to art and design, print and digital media. The division provides a forum for the discussion of theory and research in the creation, processing, function, meaning, and critical consequences of visual representation, encompassing diverse research traditions from the social sciences and the humanities.
As an area that intersects with other communication fields and ICA divisions, the Visual Communication Studies Division welcomes interdisciplinary study as well as targeted analyses of all aspects of visual representation and the visual communication experience.
The Division invites paper and interactive paper (poster) submissions as well as panel proposals focusing on the production, content, interpretation and reception of visuals in the broadest sense. Both empirical and theoretical submissions are encouraged. However, proposals that only nominally concern visual media, without exploring or addressing issues that are specifically visual in nature will likely be at a competitive disadvantage. All proposals are evaluated through a blind peer review process.
Full papers are preferred. Extended abstracts will be taken into consideration. Abstracts should be substantial and present synopses of well-developed or continuing research projects. Sketchy proposals for nascent or future work are considered inappropriate.
Submission formats:
- Full papers (35 pages max, including tables, figures, references etc.)
- Extended abstracts (8 pages minimum)
- Posters (= Interactive papers) (8-35 pages, including tables,
references etc.)
- Panel proposals (400-word rationale for the panel, 250-word
extended abstract from each participant). A round table proposal will
be considered as a panel proposal and has to be submitted in that
category.
All submissions (also panel proposals) should be accompanied by a file that is uploaded to the ICA Conference website. Please make sure that this upload is successful, otherwise your submission will only be reviewed on the basis of the short abstract, and is thus unlikely to be successful.
Student submissions should be clearly identified as such so that, upon acceptance, they may be considered for student travel grants.
Finally, the division will experiment with ICA’s virtual format for 2011.
More information on the Virtual Conference will be available through the ICA and Division websites and newsletters in the coming weeks.
Deadline: All submissions must be completed online no later than 11p.m. EST, November 1, 2010. To avoid technical problems, early submission is strongly encouraged. To reach the conference website, go to the ICA homepage at http://www.icahdq.org and follow the link for 2011 Conference Submission.
Best regards,
Michael Griffin
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Please visit the website for more information about the Visual Communication Studies Division.
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RENEW YOUR ICA-membership and your division membership NOW!
Do not forget to click on the divisional membership buttons - Visual Communication Studies Division is in an exciting, expanding phase. We would like to increase our membership - so renew, or, if you are not yet a member, come and join the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division.
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