CATEGORIES

–Individual or Class Project

All content must be created by an individual or a class with guidance from the entrant’s professor. All elements must be designed by the individual or the class with guidance from the professor of record. University staff or outside consultants may not create content, do any design, or do any coding. Entrants may use widgets and plugins. The use of a template or a content management system theme as a starting point is allowed, but entrants should understand that the judges will reward originality and innovation. The use of pre-designed templates or CMS themes WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT ADAPTATION TO AN ORIGINAL DESIGN is not allowed. If your entry is included in a larger site that includes other projects, please be sure to send only the link to your project.

–School or Institutional Project

This category will consider larger projects created by more than one class at a university, or projects created by more than one university as part of a journalism institute or center. All visual content must be generated by students. The entire project must be designed primarily by students with the understanding that due to database and technical issues outside the scope of a university class, contributions from professors, university staff and outside consultants may be necessary. Entrants may use widgets and plugins. The use of pre-designed template or a content management system theme as a starting point is allowed, but entrants should understand that the judges will reward originality and innovation. The use of pre-designed templates or CMS themes WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT ADAPTATION TO AN ORIGINAL DESIGN is not allowed. If your entry is included in a larger site that includes other projects, please be sure to send only the link to your project.

AWARDS

Judges will consider all entries based on content, design and technical innovation and will decide first place, second place and honorable mention awards for each category, as well as one award of excellence for the best overall entry.

1) DESIGN

Best use of content, design and interactivity to tell a story. First place, second place and honorable mention.

2) INNOVATION

Best use of content, innovative technology and interactivity to tell a story. First place, second place and honorable mention.

RULES FOR ENTERING

The ONLY qualified entrants for this competition are faculty and students who work for or attend an institution that is accredited by ACEJMC, or are current (paid) individual members of AEJMC and their students. University and college staff are not eligible to be entrants of record.

Individual/Class Project: The entrant of record should be the person who designed and primarily built the site.

School/Institutional Project: The entrant of record should be the supervising faculty member if the entrant contributed significantly to the design and production of the site. All school/institutional entries must be PRIMARILY created by students and faculty and not by staff, paid consultants or professional designers.

DISCLOSURE

1) The entry form will require you to list the names and roles of the students and faculty members who contributed to your entry as well as the names and roles of any contributors to your project who are not students or faculty members. The list MUST include the name and position of any university staff members, designers, developers or database consultants who contributed in any way to your project.

2) The entry form will require you to list the templates, CMS themes, plugins and widgets you used to produce your project.

SITES

All sites entered must advance education or research in journalism or mass communication. Sites unrelated to this field are NOT accepted. Sites must fit into one of the given categories. A site may be submitted only once per year and in only ONE category. An entrant may enter more than one site in a single year. Sites that do not fit the criteria will be eliminated from the competition by the chairs.

TO ENTER

A link to the contest entry form is at http://www.answerq.org/form.html

Entry deadline is the end of April 21, 2013, Eastern Time.

If you have any question, please contact Kim Komenich through kim.komenich@sjsu.edu or 415-531-8065

Have you considered the VisCom Division’s “Creative Projects” competition? It’s an excellent opportunity to have your efforts recognized by peers in a juried forum. You would present the work at the national AEJMC convention in Washington DC, Aug. 8-11.

What gets submitted and accepted? The format is non-restrictive, but an entry must include a strong visual component. Accepted projects in the past have included historical studies, photojournalism exhibits of original work, book proposals or published work, explanations of summer grants or activities, creative DVDs, commentaries on teaching effectiveness, and examples of innovative student projects and accomplishments. Your submission should include a one-to-two page explanation of the work, stressing its significance to the study of visual journalism. Did you receive outside support? Does the project examine cutting-edge technology that will enhance your teaching abilities? How does this project fit in with your own interests and goals as a visual educator? Normally there are about 15 submissions and five are selected for 15-minute presentations.

Internet access is not guaranteed at the conference, therefore you must show your work via a CD, laptop, thumb drive, etc. A computer projector will be provided on-site.

To submit your project, package four copies of it into four individual 9”x12” envelopes. Large and unusually shaped packages present handling issues. For example, instead of submitting an elaborate 11”x14” leather-bound portfolio of archival photographs, send 8.5”x11” inkjet or laser prints stapled together. Instead of tubes with large rolled posters announcing your film course’s festival, send 8.5”x11” versions. Also, if submitting CDs, use cross-platform common programs. Links to a web site displaying the work or an emailed PDF will also be acceptable.

In one larger package, send your four envelopes (three copies without any identification) to the creative projects chair (see below for mailing instructions). On the cover sheet of the fourth copy, include your name, title, complete contact information (email, phone numbers) and a 75-word abstract summarizing the project.

Links and PDFs with abstract can be sent to the email address below.

Submitted material will not be returned.

Please note: You cannot enter creative projects in any other convention category,

including “Best of the Web”

The postmark deadline is Sunday, April 21th. Notification will be emailed to all applicants by May 31st.

Vis Comm Creative Projects Chair

• Quint Randle, BYU
• Department of Communications
• 322 BRMB
• Provo, UT 84602-2501
• 801-422-1694
• quint@byu.edu

Two items in this post:
1) Extension of panel proposals for the 2013 AEJMC Viscom Division to midnight of Oct. 24, 2012, Eastern Time.
Please send your proposal through
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dHNZZU9oa05xSElmWkJFQ2szU3ZKNVE6MQ
If you already submitted your proposal and want to revise it, please submit the revised one after adding “(revision)” at the end of the title.

The original call, including proposals that were accepted last time, can be found at http://aejmc.net/vis/

2) Collective intelligence:
What would you do if you need to locate a guest speaker for your class, an expert for a panel, or a collaborator for your professional or research project?

Using a database I am planning to construct must be one excellent way you can solve the problem.

The database describes
* current and past professional and scholarly activities of visual scholars and professionals,
* their skills, talents and expertise,
* whether they are available to you and the public as a guest speaker, information source, reviewer, contributor, or consultant, and
* their contact number.

Only when you supply information on you, you can access this database.

I strongly recommend you take time to fill out the form.

Also ask your friends, colleagues or others who are interested in visual journalism to fill out the form.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dFVOekxVTVBLOTRtYWFxY0lSaUhqQmc6MQ

Thanks,

Byung Lee
Vice-head of AEJMC Viscom Division

Next year’s AEJMC convention will take place in Washington D.C., Renaissance Hotel, August 8-11, 2013.!

Our panels, I believe, in Chicago were well organized and attended, timely and beneficial to us, visual educators. Let ‘s take this momentum and continue forward.

You have great ideas. We need to hear from you about panel ideas, such as freedom of expression using visual images, new ways of analyzing visual data, effective ways of teaching visual journalism, social media, content delivery, mobile devices, multimedia, user interactivity, journalism’s future and many, many more visual topics.

Please submit your ideas through this form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dHNZZU9oa05xSElmWkJFQ2szU3ZKNVE6MQ

In the form, you are asked to write what kind of panel you propose (Research, Teaching or Professional Freedom & Responsibility), whether there are any possible co-sponsors, what the panel is about, etc. The deadline for the panel submissions is October 8, 2012 (Monday).

For your reference, I put the panel sessions that Viscom offered in the Chicago conference:

Research Sessions
• Refereed Paper Research Session: Top Research Paper Panel
• Research Scholar to Scholar Session
• Refereed Paper Research Session: Creative Projects
• Refereed Paper Research Session: Exploring Bias and Ethics in the Visual Field
• Research Panel Session: Analysis of Visuality Using Q Methodology Refereed Paper Research Session: Digital Images and Networked Communication
• Refereed Paper Research Session: Visual Rhetoric and Framing: New Considerations

PF&R
• Panel: Las Vegas Religion: Exploring Sacred and Secular Media in Sin City (VisCom & Religion)
• Panel: Documenting the Arab Spring  (Electronic News & VisCom)

Teaching
• Pre-Conference Workshop: Pre-Con Workshop: Final Cut or Adobe Premiere: Which One to Use? How To Teach It? (VisCom & Electronic News)
• The Male Gaze Revisited (Cultural and Critical Studies & VisCom)
• Teaching Marathon (Magazines & VisCom)
• Curated Journey: iPad and Tablet Narrative (VisCom & Magazine)
• The Best of the Web (VisCom & ComTec)
• Teaching with Technology: Learning Concepts in the Face of Challenging Software (ComTec & VisCom)

Check out the other divisions and interest groups here:
DIVISIONS (http://www.aejmc.org/home/about/groups/divisions/)
INTEREST GROUPS (http://www.aejmc.com/home/?page_id=410)

I am looking forward to your panel proposal.

This is just a call for panel proposals, not research papers.

Thanks,

Byung Lee
Vice-head for Viscom

Guest Editors: David D. Perlmutter and Lisa Silvestri, The University of Iowa

Today anyone with a cellphone and an Internet connection can create and distribute images without professional training or a governmental or industrial institutional affiliation. Whether funny cat YouTube uploads, vacation videos (from a tsunami site) or pictures of the humiliation of Iraqi prisoners, images that once fell under the genre of “domestic” are now regularly erupting onto world attention, controversy, and influence. Likewise, ordinary citizens are delivering the first visual “draft of history” because they are first on the scene of breaking news—from terror-filled moments in a London subway after a bombing to an airliner landing on the Hudson River.
This special issue of VCQ seeks scholars and practitioners who study or document the blurring between “home” photography and “public,” professional, or commercial photography as it becomes increasingly indistinct in our viral digital/online/social media age.

Among possible questions to ask: What does it mean when the “home mode” goes viral? How does the role of the professional photographer and industry change when “citizen journalists” are creating so much public content? What new genres of photography are emerging in the home–public fusion? How does the domestic origin of an image affect its reception? What are the historical antecedents to this phenomenon (e.g., images of the Holocaust that were originally souvenir snapshots by its perpetrators or domestic scenes of celebrities made famous after their deaths?)

VCQ: Visual Communication Quarterly solicits contributions for an upcoming special issue on the domestic image. VCQ welcomes essays that consider the relationship between “home” and “public” modes of photography, visuality in a viral era, digitization, Photoshopping, cropping, and dissemination. In addition to theoretically grounded, critical essays, we will consider the submission of visual essays and photo pieces. Max. word length for essays: 7500.

Deadline for submissions: February 20, 2013

VCQ: Visual Communication Quarterly publishes scholarship and professional imagery that promotes an inclusive, broad discussion of all things visual, while also encouraging synthesis and theory building across our fascinating field of study. See: http://vcquarterly.org/ for submission style and guidelines. Please email an electronic version of your essay (as an MS Word document), along with a 100 word abstract, to david-perlmutter@uiowa.edu. For portfolios, send inquiry first.

EDITOR
Berkley Hudson, Missouri School of Journalism

Vice-Head & Program Chair
Byung S. Lee
Associate Professor
School of Communications
Elon University
216-C McEwen Communications/2850 Campus Box
Elon, NC 27244
Phone: 336.278.5675
Fax: 336.278.5734
Email: byunglee@elon.edu

2nd Vice-Head
Seth Gitner
Assistant Professor
S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Syracuse University
215 University Place
Syracuse, NY 13244
Phone: 315.443.9183
Email: smgitner@syr.edu

Research Chair
Mary Bock
Assistant Professor
College of Communication
The University of Texas at Austin
300 W. Dean Keeton
Austin, TX 78712-1073
Phone: 512.471.1845
Email: mary.bock@austin.utexas.edu

PF&R Chair
Denise McGill
Assistant Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of South Carolina
Coliseum 4005E
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: 803.777.8707
Fax: 803.777.4103
Email: mcgilld@mailbox.sc.edu

Teaching Chair
Amy Devault
Elliott School of Communication
Wichita State University
1845 Fairmount
Box 31
Wichita, KS 67260-0031
Phone: 316.978.6052
Email: amy.devault@wichita.edu

Best of the Web Chair
Kim Komenich
Assistant Professor
School of Journalism & Mass Communications
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0026
Phone: 408.924.3268
Fax: 408.924.3229
E-mail: kkomenich@casa.sjsu.edu

Creative Projects
Quint Randle
Associate Professor
College of Fine Arts and Communications
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
Phone: 801.422.1694
Email: quint_randle@byu.edu

Logo Chair
Philip Motley
Assistant Professor
School of Communications
Elon University
2850 Campus Box
Elon, NC 27244
Phone: 336.278.5617
Email: pmotley@elon.edu

Membership Chair
Bonnie Layton
Lecturer
School of Journalism
Indiana University
940 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7108
Phone: 812.855.1699
Email: bllayton@indiana.edu

Graduate Student Liaisons
Matt Haught
Digital Communication
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: 803.777.9620
Mobile: 304.634.3655
Fax: 803.777.4103
Email: haught@email.sc.edu

Visual Communication Quarterly Editor
Berkley Hudson
Associate Professor
School of Journalism
University of Missouri
321B Lee Hills Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1370
Phone: 573.882.4201
Email: hudsonb@missouri.edu
VCQ Website

Newsletter Editor
Bob Britten
Assistant Professor
School of Journalism
West Virginia University
1511 University Ave.
Morgantown, WV 26505-6010
Phone: 304.293.8710
Fax: 304.293.3072
Email: Bob.Britten@mail.wvu.edu

Webmaster
Philip Loubere
Assistant Professor
School of Journalism
Middle Tennessee State University
1301 East Main St.
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Phone: 615.494.7749
Fax: 615.898.5866
Email: ploubere@mtsu.edu

Webmaster Committee
Wasim Ahmad
Assistant Professor
State University of New York-Stony Brook
N4024 Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3384
Phone: 631.632.1049
Fax: 631.632.7550
Email: wasim.ahmad@stonybrook.edu

Team Journalism
First place: El Nuevo Normal
Seth Gitner, Syracuse
http://syracuse.news21.com/2011/

Second place: Changing America
Ken Harper, Syracuse
http://2011.newhousemilitary.org/

Third Place: Boruca: Behind the Mask
Amanda Sturgill, Elon
http://www.boruca.org

Honorable Mention: Together Liberia
Ken Harper, Syracuse
http://togetherliberia.org/

Individual Innovation
First Place: Overtown: Inside/Out
Charles “Stretch” Ledford, Illinois/Miami
http://overtowner.com

Second Place: On the Web
Xtine Burrough, California State Fullerton
http://www.missconceptions.net/on-the-web/

Third Place: What’s on Your Plate at the Dining Hall?
Kelley Wollman, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://reesenews.org/2011/06/16/interactive-whats-on-your-plate-at-the-dining-hall/16563/

Team Innovation
First Place: The Struggle for a Neighborhood
Sarah Riazati, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://reesenews.org/2011/04/14/the-struggle-for-a-neighborhood/13888/

Second Place: We the People: Bringing the Census to Life in Arizona
Leslie-Jean Thornton, Arizona State
http://wethepeople.asu.edu/

Third Place: Interactive Basketball Scoreboard
Kelley Wollman, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.reesenews.org/interactives/scoreboard/uncmsu.html

You will have to update your bookmarks though. If you have a previous bookmark to the Visual Communication division site, please update it to http://aejmc.net/vis/. You’ll have to update any bookmarks to internal pages too.

And let us know if there’s something you’d like to see added to the site.

• 10-11:30AM – Research: Exploring Bias and Ethics in the Visual Field — Room: 6th Floor, Northwestern/Ohio
• 11:45AM-1:15PM – Teaching: The Male Gaze Revisited (with Cultural and Critical Studies) — 6th Floor, 6th Floor, Indiana/Iowa
• 3:15PM-4:45PM – Teaching: Teaching Marathon (with Magazine) — 5th Floor, Los Angeles/Miami
• 5-6:30PM – Teaching: Curated Journey: iPad and Tablet Narrative (with Magazine) — 6th Floor, Purdue/Wisconsin

Friday — August 10, 2012:

• 8:15-9:45AM – PF&R: Las Vegas Religion: Exploring Sacred and Secular Media in Sin City (with Religion and Media Interest Group) — 5th Floor, Chicago B
• 11:45AM-1:15PM – Teaching: Off-site Luncheon Session: Visual Journalism: Photography, Print Informational Graphics and Digital Design — pre-registration required, cost $30 — Offsite, Chicago Tribune, 450 N. Michigan Ave.
• 1:30-3PM – Research: 2012 Visual Communication Division Top Papers — 5th Floor, Denver/Houston
• 3:15-4:45PM – PF&R: Global Perspectives on Coverage of CNN, BBC, and Aljazeera/Documenting the Arab Spring (with Electronic News) — 5th Floor, Scottsdale

Saturday — August 11, 2012

• 8:15-9:45AM – Research: Digital Images and Networked Communication — 6th Floor, Great America I & II
• 12:15-1:30PM – Research: Scholar-to-Scholar — 7th Floor, Sallon III
• 1:45-3:15PM – Teaching: The Best of the Web (with Communication Technology) — 5th Floor, Chicago F
• 3:30-5PM – Research: Visual Rhetoric and Framing: New Considerations — 6th Floor, Indiana/Iowa
• 5:15-6:45PM – Research: Creative Projects — 5th Floor, Chicago F
• 7-8:30PM – Business: Members’ Meeting — 5th Floor, Chicago F

Sunday — August 12, 2012

• 8:15-9:45AM – Teaching: Teaching with Technology: Learning Concepts in the Face of Challenging Software (with Communication Technology) — 5th Floor, Chicago C
• 10-11:30AM – Research: Analysis of Visuality Using Q Methodology — 6th Floor, Michigan/Michigan State