2013-06-26 • Wednesday
06:30 PM – 08:30 PM
- Reception & Gathering of Friends:
Greeting, meetings, and general good cheer accompanied by convivial consumption of liquids and desserts.
07:30 Announcements & self introductions
08:00 PM • Welcome
- Ken Smith & Conrad Smith, University of Wyoming
2013-06-27 • Thursday
07:30 AM – 09:00 AM • Breakfast
09:00 AM – 10:30 AM • On the Margins: Visualizing the “Other”
Chair: Mark Lipton
- The Semiotics and Politics of Native American Sports Mascots and Logos – Jacob Turner, Merimack College
- Re-Visualizing Domestic Violence – Sumiko Martinez, University of Utah
- Maid and Form: Slutwalks Intersectional Argument for Social Change – Kate Zittlow Rogness, Monmouth College
- Images of Special Olympics: Do News Photographs Contribute to Handicapism and Negative Stereotypes of Special Needs Athletes? – Eric Wiltse, University of Wyoming
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM • Break
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM • Cognition and Learning, Part 1
Chair: Trischa Goodnow
- Multi-Path Cognitive Processing and Visual Effects – Richard Schaefer, University of New Mexico
- Visual Preferences and Abilities at the ELM’s Critical Point of Persuasion: An Investigation of Infographics and Visual Learners – Allison Lazard, University of Texas at Austin
- Creating Space: The Visual Aesthetics of Reggio Emilia in Early Learning Environments – Georgette Comuntzis Page, Millikin University
PechaKucha: Berkley Hudson (6 min 40 sec)
01:00 PM – 02:15 PM • Cognition and Learning, Part 2
Chair: Sheree Josephson
- Mind Mapping for Critical Thinking – Roxanne O’Connell, Roger Williams University
- Perceptual Enhancement Model: A Method of Performing and Teaching Visual Communication Analysis – David Neumann, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Q Method Analysis of Web Design – Philip Loubere, Middle Tennessee State University
02:15 PM – 03:15 PM • VisCom Project
Session Leader: Bob Britten, West Virginia University
- Tracking Iconicity: An Iconic Photo Delphi Study Redux
03:15 PM – 03:30 PM • Break
03:30 PM – 5:00 PM • Visual Rhetoric and Political Argument
Chair: Roxanne O’Connell
- The Last Supper: Art as Rhetorical Appeal – Trischa Goodnow, Oregon State University
- Victory Begins at Home: Nostalgic Visuality, the War on Terror, and Bill Maher – James Kimble, Seton Hall University
- Digital Topoi, Rhetorical Invention, and the Creation of Laughing Joe Biden Memes – Susan Sci, Regis University
06:00 PM – No host Social Hour at the Sheraton Bar
07:00 PM – 08:15 PM • Dinner
08:30 PM – 10:00 PM • Night Viewing
Chair: Conrad Smith
- Atomic Veteran: A G.I. at Operation Castle • Larry Taylor, Appalachian State University
2013-06-28 • Friday
07:30 AM – 09:00 AM • Breakfast
Chair: Tracey Owens Patton
- Joe Klamar’s Olympian Images: Unconventional Photos and a Furious Five Ring Circus – David Staton, University of Oregon
- A movie of our own: Wedding videos as self-dramatization – Michael O’Donnell, University of St. Thomas
- Surveillance, dividuation, and the construction of an online identity – Julie Snyder-Yuly, University of Utah
- “I just look illegal”: The visual politics of immigration – Alexa Dare, San Francisco State University
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM • Break
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM • VisCom Housekeeping
*** AFTERNOON AND EVENING OFF ***
2013-06-29 • Saturday
07:30 AM – 09:00 AM • Breakfast
09:00 AM – 10:30 AM • Philosophizing about the visual
Chair: Bob Britten
- It’s just a cow, right? Boots, Buckles and Brands – Joanne Littlefield, Colorado State University
- Literature and Photography: Shaping Culture in Tandem – Kali McCrackin, University of Wyoming
- Ideological rupture and the social world of newspaper comic strips – Michael Brown, University of Wyoming
PechaKucha: Trischa Goodnow (6 min 40 sec)
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM • Break
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM • Lightning Session
Chair: Stuart Kaplan
- TheAve.us – Stories from the Streets of Lansing, Michigan – Geri Alumit Zeldes, Michigan State University
- WWII’s Forbidden Love: Visual Narratives of a Government’s Racist Caste of Rejection – Tracey Owens Patton, University of Wyoming
- The Use and Misuse of Athletic Logos – Jamie Pond, University of Wyoming
- Feeling Type: Can Typeface Design in Corporate Logos Affect Emotional Responses to the Brand? – Tracy Rutledge, University of Tennessee
- The Reporter’s Choice: What Kind of Headline Phrasing to Use to Attract Attention on Facebook and Twitter – Sheree Josephson, Weber State University
- Art AND/OR Communication? – Nikki Arnell, Arkansas State University
01:10 PM – 03:00 PM • Emerging Media Strategies
Chair: Richard Schaefer
- The verdict: How newspapers are using video to expand local courtroom coverage – Melony Shemberger, Austin Peay State University
- A critical look at “Snowfall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek” – Michael Scully, Roger Williams University
03:00 PM – 03:15 PM • Break
03:15 PM – 04:45 PM • Visualizing the Earth
Chair: Berkley Hudson
- An Extraordinary Document of Our World and Detroit Resurgent – Howard Bossen, Michigan State University
- Images that Engage, Images that Sustain: Global Warming and Visual Rhetoric – Stuart Kaplan, Lewis & Clark College
- What Peak did John Fremont Climb in 1842? A Visual Analysis – Conrad Smith, University of Wyoming
PechaKucha: Roxanne O’Connell (6 min 40 sec)
04:45 PM – 05:30 PM • VisCom Matinée 3
Chair: Michael Scully
- Imported from China – Geri Alumit Zeldes, Michigan State University
06:00 PM: Bar opens and runs through dinner hour
2013-06-30 • Sunday
09:00 AM – 10:30 AM
- Town Hall Meeting
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