2016-06-22 • Wednesday
06:30-08:30 PM • Reception
- Greetings, meetings, and general good cheer accompanied by convivial consumption of liquids and finger foods
- Welcome by Sheree Josephson, program and site planner, and Julie Snyder-Yuly, site planner
- Introductions
2016-06-23 • Thursday
07:30 – 09:00 AM • Breakfast
09:10 – 10:30 AM • Storytelling
Chair: Nikki Arnell, Arkansas State University
- Channeling the ghosts of Flight 93: Visual storytelling through architectural programs at Flight 93 National Memorial—Diane Nicodemus, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown
- Branded visual storytelling: Constructing the Lego™ story—Michael E. Holmes, University of Cincinnati, and Julie Campbell-Holmes, University of Cincinnati
- Interactive storybooks and reading comprehension: an eye-tracking study—Stacey Tyler, Weber State University and Sheree Josephson, Weber State University
- Vanity press or “indie” books?—Kim Komenich, San Francisco State University
10:30 – 10:45 AM • Break
10:45 – 12:00 PM • Photography
Chair: Ken Smith, University of Wyoming
- The early history of the very high angle aerial photography—Lawrence Mullen, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
- Translucency and light in printed digital photography: the light box in the digital age—Suzanne Mooney, Tama Art University, Tokyo
- Writing with light—Derek Poore, Berkley Hudson, University of Missouri
- Filmmaking in the iPhone age—Scott Campbell, National University
NOON – 01:00 PM • Lunch
01:30 – 02:30 PM • News
Chair: Michael E. Holmes, University of Cincinnati
- Social media liking and sharing of posts based on visual thematic content in a hyperlocal news feed—Paul Johnson, University of Wyoming
- On-air or online: examining priorities in local television news—Peg Achterman, Seattle Pacific University
- Ethnographic production research: an examination of image construction—Andrew Utterback, Eastern Connecticut State University
02:30 – 02:45 PM • Break
02:45 – 04:00 PM • Race and Culture
Chair: Berkley Hudson, University of Missouri
- Negatives exposed: the camera and processes of racialization—Anushka Peres, University of Arizona
- The skin (tone) I’m in: the effects of visual whitewashing in advertising—Tale Mitchell, James Madison University
- The floating world of Tadashi Murikami and Masami Teraoka—Barbara Mason, Oregon State University
- Visual aesthetics of a politically resistant cryptocurrency: Oglala Lakota and MazaCoin as case study—Ashley Cordes, University of Oregon
04:00 – 05:00 PM • Creative Presentations
- “Telling my story because it needs to be told”: A photo-ethnography with Denver women in the sex industry—Wendy Perkins, University of Wyoming
- Bots on the beat—Chris Wilson, California State University-Northridge
06:30 PM • Dinner
2016-06-24 • Friday
07:30 – 09:00 AM • Breakfast
09:10 – 10:15 AM • Gender
Chair: Trischa Goodnow, Oregon State University
- Lara Croft: a body of argument—Ashley Jones, University of Northern Iowa
- Totally spies and almost totally problematic Western cartoon programming in the Gulf States—Richard Schaefer, University of New Mexico
- Big girls don’t cry: emotional expression stereotypes in Disney Pixar’s animated film Inside Out— Erin Cook, Oregon State University
10:15 – 10:30 AM • Break
10:45 – 11:45 PM • Design
Chair: Larry Mullen, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
- A designer’s job matters—Darren Sanefski, University of Mississippi
- Graphic design studies in Istanbul—Nikki Arnell, Arkansas State University
- Communicating budgetary and economic information, with style, at the Congressional Budget Office—Maureen Costantino, U.S. Congressional Budget Office
*** Afternoon and Evening Off
2016-06-25 • Saturday
07:30 – 09:00 AM • Breakfast
09:10 – 10:15 AM • War and Criminal Justice
Chair: Richard Schaefer, University of New Mexico
- War photography: representation of the 1971 India-Pakistan/Bangladesh-Liberation war in the Western press—Shehram Mokhtar, University of Oregon
- War by other means: imagery as argument in Operation Enduring Freedom—Rich Stowell, University of Utah
- Imaging criminal justice—Marilyn Terzic, xxxxx
10:15 – 10:30 AM • Break
10:30 – 12:00 PM • Lightning Session
Chair: Sheree Josephson, Weber State University
- Graphics or infographics?—Roxanne O’Connell, Roger Williams University
- The influence of media tools on design—Philip Loubere, Middle Tennessee State University
- When the doctor will not see you now: considering alternative visualizations of the doctor-patient relationship in the neoliberal world—Travis Cox, Texas A&M University
- Dehumanizing effects of the photos of obese individuals in the media—Yongwoog Jeon, University of Texas
- Digitized kids: What is the research telling us and where do we go from here?—Georgette Comuntzis Page, Millikin University
- A comparative content analysis of the materialistic symbol differences on cars between United States and China—Zihan Zhao, University of Wyoming
- Project Pacem, a digital magazine, and the process of experiential learning—Michael Scully, Roger Williams University
12:00 – 01:00 PM • Lunch
01:30 – 02:30 PM • Memes and Invisuality
Chair: Roxanne O’Connell, Roger Williams University
- More than just memes: a digital rhetorical analysis towards conceptualizing Imgur as an online public sphere—Carlos Flores, Arizona State University
- Memes as shared fantasy—Louis Rumpf, National University
- The elephant in the room: the role of the invisuality in the 2016 presidential primaries—Trischa Goodnow, Oregon State University
02:30 – 02:45 PM • Break
02:45 – 03:30 PM • Self-representations and the society of the spectacle
Chair: Anita Croasmun, North Carolina State University
- My cancer, my image: implicit communication of cancer and gender in Instagram self-representations—Allison Lazard, University of North Carolina
- Mobile media and visual communication: postmodern perspectives—Sean Baker, Central Michigan University
03:30 – 04:15 PM • Some final visual arguments
Chair: Earl Croasmun, Meredith College
- Whither visual indexical analysis—Dann Pierce, University of Portland
- There is no “grammar” of film syntax—Conrad Smith, University of Wyoming
04:15 – 05:00 PM: Conference planning for next year
06:00 PM • Bar opens and runs through dinner hour
06:30 PM • Dinner
Special thanks to abstract reviewers:
Amy Corey, Michael O’Donnell, Alan Hantz, Kim Higgs, Joanne Littlefield, Larry Mullen, Georgette Page, Dann Pierce, Richard Schaefer, Gabriel Tait and Marilyn Terzic.