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VIEWPOINTS / This item is <abridged>
ViewPoints
Newsletter of the Visual Communication Division of the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
June, 1992
Electronic Edition
ISSN: 1063-0325
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Vision, misty rain, ribs and a mountain top - all in Montreal
Julianne Hickson Newton
First Vice Head
VisCom officers have kept the phone lines busy from Montreal to Los
Angeles working to get a stellar, diverse group of journalists, researchers,
artists and teachers to discuss topics that everybody's either already
talking about or that we should be talking about.
We have planned sessions on visual thinking, ethics, teaching,
research, the changing nature of journalism practice and image-making in
many forms, ranging from self imaging to typographical imaging to digital
imaging to societal imaging.
And we're going to meet for the sole purpose of setting an agenda for
our future work.
Trust me -- this is one AEJMC you don't want to miss.
Besides, where else can you light a candle in Notre Dame Cathedral,
taxi up a mountain to view the city in a cool, misty rain, practice your
French with a lot of friendly people and also eat some of the best (or even
Tony Roma ribs) food in the world?
VisCom activities will begin Tuesday, August 4 with a pre-convention
workshop on "Getting Visual Throughout the Curriculum." AEJMC President
Terry Hynes will open the workshop which is co-sponsored with the
Advertising, Magazine, Newspaper and Radio-Television divisions.
Hal Glicksman, a specialist in brain hemisphere research will keynote
the workshop discussing "Visual Problem Solving: How It Works." Glicksman
is associate director of the Center for Educational Applications of Brain
Hemisphere Research at California State University, Long Beach.
The workshop also will include a session in which five master
teachers will demonstrate teaching modules using or applying visual
communication techniques and theories.
Tuesday evening, from 7 to 10, the division has called a caucus of
VisCom members and all other persons interested in the field of visual
communication. Purpose of the caucus is to set priorities and recommend a
course of action for the future of visual communication research, teaching
and practice.
Invited guests include Glicksman; Adam Clayton Powell III, Director
of the Minority Television Project in San Francisco; Larry Gross of the
Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; James W.
Tankard, Jr. of the University of Texas at Austin and editor of Journalism
Monographs; and Shiela Reaves of the University of Wisconsin--Madison.
Research sessions will highlight 15 papers concentrating primarily on
magazine photography, information graphics and design, and photojournalism
issues -- and take a look at the program to see whose papers got accepted
this year -- it's quite a group of people! Three people had projects accepted
for the special projects session which moderator Danal Terry of Southwest
Texas State University has titled "Is This Visual Communication?" (3:30 to
5 p.m. Thursday, August 6)
Another key research session co-sponsored with Communication
Theory and Methodology will focus on Research Issues in Visual
Communication. Moderated by James W. Tankard, Jr., the session will also
feature Larry Gross, Pamela Shoemaker of Ohio State University and
associate editor of Journalism Quarterly and Jay Black, editor of the Journal
of Mass Media Ethics.
"Rodney King, Murphy Brown and the Great Pyramids" (favorite
session title, ed.) will get their turn in a panel discussion of how different
kinds of images affect us all. Panelists include Larry Gross, Keith Kenney of
South Carolina and Shiela Reaves, with Julianne Newton as moderator (10:30
a.m. to noon, Friday, August 7).
Two design-oriented sessions will look at how Canadian art directors
deal with their bilingual/bicultural world (11:15 a.m. Wednesday, August 5)
and how typography, culture and society are interrelated (3:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 6).
Two other sessions will focus on moving beyond ethics, gender and
cultural stereotyping. One, which will concentrate on non-stereotypical
images of native people, will feature Lucy Ganje of North Dakota; Alainis
Obomsawin, the leading native filmmaker in Canada; Martin Loft of the
Mohalk Cultural Center, and Adam Clayton Powell III, whose San Francisco
television station regularly includes native programming. That session is
scheduled from 3 to 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, August 5.
Another culturally oriented session will focus on how to recognize
and avoid perpetuating gender and ethnic bias in our teaching of future
communicators (3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Friday, August 7).
Two sessions will take a hard look at how journalism educators can
prepare students for current and future changes in our field. One session
titled "Redefining Journalists/Redefining Journalism? The Impact of
Emerging Technologies" will examine how new technologies are reshaping
the nature of journalism practice (1:30 p.m. Friday, August 7). Another
called "People and Machines: Using Computers to Teach and Transmit
Information" will look at how computers are changing the way we think,
research, interact and teach (11:45 a.m. Saturday, August 8).
Another extremely important session will be a panel critique of
introductory courses in visual communication (5 to 6:30 Friday, August 7).
Jan Colbert, chair of VisCom's Teaching Committee, has asked that everyone
who has or is teaching courses in visual communication send her syllabi for
our new Syllabus Bank.
VisCom also is co-sponsoring with the Advertising and International
divisions a timely session on implications of lifting the ban on tobacco
advertising in Canada (1:30 to 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, August 5).
And be sure to put the Annual VisCom Business Meeting on your
calendar -- 7 p.m. Wednesday, August 5. We have a lot to do including
discussion on our election system, the constitution and elect the next
second vice-head.
We also have planned three exhibits for you -- we'll have this year's
College Photography of the Year Exhibition again, along with the AEJMC Logo
Entries and an edited version of "Jane Evelyn Atwood, Co Rentmeester,
Moneta Sleet -- Cross Cultural Experiences," courtesy of James Kelly and
Kodak.
Bob Baker and Paul Lester also have a couple of special tours for
VisCom members in the works.
So ... we're looking forward to seeing you there.
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