2014-06-22 • Sunday
05:00 – 06:00 PM
- Cocktails & Gathering of Friends: Greeting, meetings, and general good cheer
06:00 – 07:00 PM • Dinner Hosted by University of Rhode Island
07:00 PM • Welcome, announcements & self introductions
- Roxanne O’Connell, Roger Williams University
- Renee Hobbes, University of Rhode Island
2014-06-23 • Monday
08:00 – 09:00 AM • Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30 AM • Creating Identity through the Image
Chair: Trischa Goodnow, Oregon State University
- The Visual Codification of Normality – Non-Iconic Images – Alessa Katharina Paluch, Freie Universitat Berlin
- The Picture of Fatherhood – Jessica Troilo, West Virginia University
- Driving Identity: Stick Figure Families as Transportation Decoration – Marjorie Yambor, Western Kentucky University
10:30 – 10:45 AM • Break
10:45 – 12:00 PM • The Visual and Place
Chair: Stuart Kaplan, Lewis and Clark College
- Why doesn’t legal innovation protect artistic innovation? Moral rights from Titled Arc to 5POINTZ – Melanie Hayes, University of Guelph
- How Thousands of Images Define People and Place: Applying Auto-Photography to Instagram – Len Cooper, University of Mount Union
- The Berlin Holocaust Memorial as Chaotic Rhetoric – Trischa Goodnow, Oregon State University
PechaKucha: (6 min 40 sec) • Images of Insanity – Mark Lipton, University of Guelph
NOON – 01:00 PM • Lunch
01:00 – 02:15 PM • Image as Perception Creation
Chair: Bob Britten, WVU
- From Banality to Virality: How Images Move from a Personal Moment to a Collective Memory – Julie Snyder-Yuly, University of Utah
- Harlot or Heroine: Legacy of Women in History and in Words – Marilyn Starrett, MSU Denver
02:15 – 03:15 PM • Issue Oriented Images
Chair: Sheree Josephson, Weber State University
- Evaluating Issue-Oriented Video Journalism Techniques – Natalia Jacquez, Richard Schaefer, University of New Mexico
- The Mediated Visualization of Shame and Pride: News Images of Same-Sex Marriage in the Alternative and Mainstream Press of New Zealand – Linda Jean Kenix, University of Canterbury
- Campaigns For and Against Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: A Visual Content Analysis – Dyann Diercks, University of Wyoming
03:15 – 03:30 PM • Break
03:30 – 5:00 PM • Images and the Changing World
Chair: Conrad Smith, University of Wyoming
- Of Symbolic Power and Big Data: Instagram & the Disruption of Media Photography in the 21st Century – Erik Palmer, Southern Oregon University
- Visual Expression from Private Data – Eugene Park, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- “Media: Keep Out” – Anniversary News Images of Sandy Hook in Comparison with Other Disaster Coverage – Bob Britten, WVU
- The Visual Rhetoric of Climate Change Apartheid – Stuart Kaplan, Lewis and Clark College
05:00 PM – No host Social Hour
06:00 – 07:00 PM • Dinner
08:30 – 10:00 PM • Night Viewing
- Exploring Namibia: A journey through Community-Based Conservation and Tourism – Barbara Sandick, University of Wyoming
2014-06-24 • Tuesday
08:00 – 09:00 AM • Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00 AM • Screening
- Mr Pruitt’s Possum Town: Trouble and Resilience in the American South – Berkeley Hudson, University of Missouri
10:00 – 10:30 AM • Reimagining the Narrative
Chair:
- Lessons in Teaching Iconicity – Roxanne O’Connell, Roger Williams University
- The Jockey: Feature News or Eye Candy? – Michael Scully, Roger Williams University
10:30 – 10:45 AM • Break
10:45 – 12:00 AM • Screening
- Old Pictures, New Experiences – Kim Komenich, San Jose State University
12:00 – 01:30 PM • Lunch
*** AFTERNOON AND EVENING OFF ***
(NO evening meal available at Whispering Pines)
2014-06-25 • Wednesday
08:00 – 09:00 AM • Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30 AM • Social Science and the Visual
Chair: Marjorie Yambor, Western Kentucky University
- The Effects of Photo Manipulation on Non-Rational Processing: Consumers’ Responses to Advertising – Allison Lazard, University of Texas at Austin
- How Audio Cues Shift Visual Attention in a Second-Screen Environment – Sheree Josephson, Weber State University
- Content Analysis of Youth Media: Creating a Media Literacy Scheme – Jonathan Friesen and Morgan Jaffee, University of Rhode Island
PechaKucha: (6 min 40 sec) Marilyn Starrett
10:30 – 10:45 AM • Break
10:45 – 12:00 PM • What You See Is What You Get: Global Community and the Environment
Chair: Renee Hobbs, University of Rhode Island
- Hidden in the Leaves: Visualizing the Invisible Threat – Mary Healey Jamiel, University of Rhode Island
- A Kaleidoscope of Climate Change Images: Engaging People in Adaptation to Impacts – Judith Swift, University of Rhode Island
- The Gallery of Global Photography as a Tool for Building Global Community – Joanne Mundorf, University of Rhode Island
- An Analysis of Fog and Haze Pictures in the People’s Daily – Shengdong Lin, Xiamin University
- Visualization and Sustainable Communities – Norbert Mundorf, University of Rhode Island
12:00 – 01:00 PM • Lunch
PechaKucha: (6 min 40 sec) Bob Britten
01:10 – 03:00 PM • The Image and Rhetoric
Chair: Mark Lipton, University of Guelph
- Visual Apologia in an Age of Mediated Scandal – Terence Check, College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University
- “The Skutnik” as Visual Epideictic in State of the Union Addresses – Anthony Arrigo, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
- Decoding Illustrations Rooted in “The Rhetoric of the Picturesque” – Conrad Smith, University of Wyoming
- Ubiquitous Objects as a Vehicle for Visual Propaganda: A Case Study of Nazi-Era Postage Stamps – Joanne Mundorf, University of Rhode Island
03:00 – 03:15 PM • Break
03:15 – 04:45 PM • The Image and Place
Chair: Marilyn Starrett, MSU Denver
- Bilingual Typography in Globalized Middle East Culture: Study of the Linguistic Landscape of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Shayna Blum, Dar Al Hekma University
- Colonizing the Mind: Visual Rhetoric that Constructs the CyberIdentity of African Diasporic Communities – Clarissa Walker, University of Rhode Island
- The Happiest Map on Earth: A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of Disneyland’s Guidemap – Travis Cox, Texas A&M University
- Detroit Resurgent and an Extraordinary Document of Our World – Part 2 – Howard Bossen, Michigan State University
PechaKucha: (6 min 40 sec)
05:00 PM – Cocktails
06:00 PM • Lobster Boil Sponsored by Roger Williams University
Evening • Campfire Stories and S’mores
2014-06-26 • Thursday
08:00 – 09:00 AM • Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30 AM
- Town Hall Meeting
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