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Visual Culture

This working group focuses on cultural studies in visual media from the critical view point. Research with a cultural studies focus is proliferating in the communication field, yet it is weakly represented in international conferences. Particularly, this group emphasizes the importance of cultural studies in non-western contexts including Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Analysis of the cultural aspects of diverse regional communities including Asia, Africa, Latin America as well as Europe and North America, would contribute to diversifying the field of communication studies. A comparative study of cultural identity in a region, which maybe resisting mainstream global media flows, would be particularly supportive for visual media scholars who are searching for cultural identity in their parts of the world. The insights arising from such work may also be applied to other regions. Cultural research on visual media including film, television and multimedia would contribute to elaborating upon theories of cultural power and empirical research on identity issues in the contemporary world.

Chair: Sunny Yoon [Contact]
Vice-Chair: Myoung Hye Kim [Contact]

For further information, please visit the Visual Culture website.




IAMCR 2012 - Visual Culture Working Group Call for Papers

erythrina_caffraThe Visual Culture Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submissions of individual and panel proposals for its 2012 annual conference to be held in Durban, South Africa, July 15-19, 2012. The general theme of this year conference is 'South-North Conversations'.

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Istanbul 2011 - Visual Culture Working Group Call for Papers

istanbulThe Working Group on Visual Culture invites submissions of abstracts for the 2011 IAMCR Conference in Istanbul, Turkey from July 13-17. The theme of the 2011 conference is Cities, Creativity and Connectivity.

The Visual Culture Working group welcomes research proposals related to these themes and other topics focusing on cultural aspects of visual media. Prospective topics would be space and visual culture, visual art and creativity, interactive media and visual communication in addition to various methodological and theoretical issues on visual culture

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Braga 2010 - Visual Culture Emerging Theme Call for Papers

braga_2010The Group of Visual Culture, Emerging Theme at IAMCR would like to invite submissions for IAMCR Congress in Braga, Portugal from July 18 to 22, 2010. The general theme of the 2010 conference is 'Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change'.

We welcome papers related to the general theme as well as theoretical and empirical research on visual culture in national, regional, international and cultural entities.

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Stockholm 2008 - Emerging Theme on Visual Culture Call for Papers

Stockholm 2008 - Emerging Theme on Visual Culture Call for PapersEXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!

The Emerging Theme on Visual Culture group invites submissions for the 26th Congress of the IAMCR in Stockholm, July 20-25 2008. We are particularly interested in paper proposals related to this year’s theme: Media and Global Divides.

 

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