BagNewsSalon: Campaign Mania

Join us for an Online Discussion with photojournalists, visual academics and informed participants in visual culture hosted by BagNewsSalon on the Open-i/London School of Communications discussion platform.

(photo: Jewel Samad/Getty Images)

Date: Sunday, January 29th

Time: 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST / 6pm London (running for 90 minutes)

Location: Online Webinar - http://bit.ly/BagNewsSalon

The BagNewsSalon, a program of BagNewsNotes, brings together the world's leading photojournalists, visual academics and other informed observers to understanding how the visual media frames the key social and political events of the day. The next Salon, "Campaign Mania" involves an early look at the 2012 presidential campaign. An expert panel will analyze a 9 photo edit ("9 photos in 90 minutes"), discussing what these photos imply about the campaign, as well as the depth, breadth and nature of the media's visual coverage.

Host: Michael Shaw, Publisher, BagNewsNotes

Moderator: Cara Finnegan, Professor of Communication – U. of Illinois, Co-editor: Visual Rhetoric: a reader in communication and American culture

Discussants:

Nina Berman - Documentary Photographer, NOOR, and Contributor – BagNewsOriginals
Janis Edwards - Associate Professor, Communication Studies, University of Alabama
Justin Elliott - Reporter, Salon.com
Brendan Hoffman - Freelance Photographer; Co-Founder of Prime Collective; covering Campaign '12 for TIME and NY Times
Justin Sullivan - Staff Photographer, Getty Images
Loret Steinberg- Professor of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography/R.I.T.

Salons are co-edited and produced by Ida C. Benedetto

TO JOIN THE LIVE WEBINAR:

Sign in early at the Wimba webinar room - http://bit.ly/BagNewsSalon

If you have not used Open-i and Wimba before, we strongly urge you to arrive 15 minutes early so you can set up your computer with the platform. There is a simple setup wizard accessible from the login page that will walk you through this process. Wimba works well in Firefox and Safari once pop ups are enabled. It is not compatible with Chrome.

To join the salon, simply enter a name under participant login and click enter.