The Visual Communication Conference – Photo of Yosemite from NPS.GOV
2019-06-19 • Wednesday
07:00 – 09:00 PM • Welcome Reception
2019-06-20 • Thursday
07:30 – 9:00 AM • Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30 AM • The Past and Future of Viscom
Round Table
Virginia Kidd, Conrad Smith, Scott Campbell, Erin Cook (chair)
10:30 – 10:45 AM • Break
10:45 – 11:45 AM • Connecting through the Visual
Hi All,
Below provides a temporary program for this year’s conference. A couple of notes:
Still confirming times for meals, first panel participants, and session chairs. If you’d like to volunteer for either of the panel slots let me know.
Also, we had a little bit of time, and we’ve talked about in the past doing a round table on teaching tips/projects, etc. So, if you’ve got a cool assignment you’d like to share, let me know and I’ll put you down. Time to talk will be determined by the number of people who would like to share. tgoodnow@oregonstate.edu
The Visual Communication Conference will be held at The Village Lodge, Mammoth Lakes, California, just south of Yosemite National Park.
If you have any questions about the conference site, see Accommodation or contact Kim Komenich.
If you have any questions about the program or submission process please contact Trischa Goodnow.
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Mammoth Village Lodge isi the centerpiece of a resort with dozens of shops and restaurants and a lot of night spots. It is ideal for those who want to explore the region because of its proximity to vacation venues like Lake Tahoe (138 miles), Mono Lake (27 miles) and Manzanar (92 miles).
There’s a lot to do before and after Viscom and the folks at the Village Lodge have agreed to extend your stay at the conference rate (weekends slightly higher). Kim Komenich is compilingof his top 20 cool eastern Sierras spots, including Highway 50, “America’s Loneliest Highway”, Genoa, home of the oldest bar in Nevada, as well as some old wild west towns like Carson City and Bodie, home of California’s most well-preserved “ghost town”.
If you’re into extremes, you can drive a few hours and climb the highest point in the lower 48 states (Mt. Whitney—14,505 feet), or catch a show at the Amargosa Opera House in America’s lowest point, Death Valley (-279 feet). Just in time for Viscom, the Mammoth Adventure Center will open the longest zipline in north America (beginning at 11,053 feet, descending 2,100 vertical feet.
Backpackers, hot spring enthusiasts and fisherfolk will appreciate the scores of campgrounds and blue-ribbon trout streams nearby.
The resort is served by Mammoth Yosemite Airport (MMH), which has connections through Los Angeles. You can save money by to flying to Lake Tahoe or Reno and driving down. (Airfares are best through Reno.)
The $260 registration fee covers all meals except “excursion day” on Friday, when you’re on your own for lunch and dinner. We’ll end the conference on Saturday night with a big meal at the lodge’s Campo restaurant.
=&1=& About 5,000 words or 20 pages double-spaced with a reference list
=&2=& APA
=&3=& Blind peer-review
=&4=&Unpublished and not under review
=&5=& Sheree Josephson of Weber State University, contributor to the first edition; Ken Smith of University of Wyoming, co-editor of the first edition; Jim Kelly of Indiana University, past editor of Visual Communication Quarterly
=&6=& Routledge
=&7=& Strongly encouraged with copyright permission
=&8=& sjosephson@weber.edu
Work is beginning on the long-awaited edition of the second edition of “Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media.” The publisher (formerly Lawrence Erlbaum but now Routledge) was so happy with the first edition that it encouraged the book’s editors to begin work on an updated edition. The contract has been signed.
The second edition will be constructed in the same way as the first edition. It will be organized around chapters addressing the major theories in the field of Visual Communication accompanied by chapters about NEW exemplar studies illustrating research used to explore that theoretical area. Theory chapters will be invited. Research chapters will be selected through blind peer-review.
Research chapters to accompany the following theories are needed:
I think I got all the requested changes! So, you have 48 hours until this is written in stone. At that point, Louis can print to his heart’s content!
Please let me know if there are any changes. Can’t wait to see you all! This looks like a great program!
Trischa
Sorry it’s taken so long to get this posted. Sabbatical travel is an awesome if inconvenient thing! Attached is a more final version of the program. I’m pretty sure I got all of the changes requested. Please read carefully and let me know ASAP if there are other changes. Please check to see if you are listed as a chair…if you don’t want to do it, let me know and I can slot someone else in! Thanks for your patience.