[Cadaad] ​CfP ICA 2025 Pre-conference: Frames of Transition: Visual Communication in Times of Social Change

[Nataliia Laba]

CfP ICA 2025 Pre-conference: Frames of Transition: Visual Communication in
Times of Social Change


Date: Wednesday 11 June 2025, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.

Location: University of Denver, Colorado, USA

In a world marked by rapid technological advances and sociopolitical
upheavals, visual communication plays a vital role in documenting and
influencing these changes. By emphasizing the theme of transition and
change, this pre-conference organized by ICA Visual Communication Studies
Division seeks to contribute to academic scholarship and practical
applications, demonstrating how visual communication can help navigate and
make sense of change. It also aims to provide a platform for
cross-divisional and interdisciplinary networking between emerging and
senior scholars dealing with visual communication research, inviting
extended abstracts with a focus on three perspectives:


   1.

   Phenomena-oriented perspective: From this perspective, we seek
   contributions examining events, movements, and trends represented visually,
   offering insights into the ways visual communication shapes and is shaped
   by transitional moments. We also aim to explore the impact of emerging
   visual production or editing technologies, such as generative AI, that
   contribute to new issues (e.g., AI-generated visual disinformation,
   deepfakes, creative expression, etc.).
   2.

   Actor/agent (action)-oriented perspective: This perspective invites
   visual communication research with a focus on individuals, groups, and
   organizations involved in creating, editing, disseminating, and engaging
   with visual content during transitional periods. We also aim to explore how
   visual communication is used as a tool to address existing issues (e.g.,
   through visual storytelling, photojournalism, novel forms of visual
   expression, etc.).
   3.

   Method-oriented perspective: Submissions from this perspective will
   delve into the methodologies and techniques used to study visual
   representation and meaning-making during periods of change. We also aim to
   provide a forum for collaborative learning about innovative approaches and
   tools for analyzing visual communication.


How to Participate:

Send an extended abstract for one of the following formats by 1 February
2025:


   -

   Traditional research (1,000 words): These abstracts should be anonymized
   for a review committee made up of senior Division members.
   -

   Research escalator (500 words): The session applications will be
   reviewed by potential mentors, and where matches are possible, mentees will
   be paired with a mentor.


Full CfP:
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/conference/2025/pc-cfp-frames-transition.pdf

Submit abstracts by February 1, 2025: https://bit.ly/4fdwT68

Notifications: March 11, 2025


Registration: we are planning with a fee of $50 (includes lunch and
refreshments on the day). No fees to submit an abstract.

Organizers:

   -

   Dr. Nataliia Laba (University of Groningen), n.laba at rug.nl
   -

   Dr. Kareem El Damanhoury (University of Denver),
   kareem.eldamanhoury at du.edu


Contact for the division:

   -

   Dr. Saumava Mitra, Dublin City University, saumava.mitra at dcu.ie (Visual
   Communication Studies Division Chair)
   -

   Dr. Nataliia Laba, University of Groningen, n.laba at rug.nl (Visual
   Communication Studies Division Student and Early Career Representative)


Co-sponsor: ICA Global Communication and Social Change Division.
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