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BagNewsSalon - The Visual Framing of "The Great Recession"

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BagNewsSalon - The Visual Framing of "The Great Recession"

Time: October 16, 2011 from 6pm to 7pm
Location: Wimba
Event Type: webinar
Organized By: BagNewsNotes and OPEN-i
Latest Activity: Oct 16, 2011

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Date: Sunday, October 16th

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

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

 

The Great Recession: Analyzing the Media's Visual Framing of the Unending Economic Crisis

 

The BagNewsSalon, a program of BagNewsNotes, is dedicated to understanding how the visual media frames the key social and political events of the day. The Salon brings together the world's leading photojournalists, visual academics and other informed observers to analyze select edits of still news and political images in a 90 minute on-line discussion format.

 

An invited panel will discuss the images of the great recession in the United States and Europe. The Salon includes photographers who have been covering the recession in depth and  academics specializing in the visual rhetoric of poverty and social welfare.

 

Participants Scheduled to Appear:

 

Michael Shaw, host - Publisher, BagNews

Nathan Stormer, moderator - Professor of Communications and Journalism/U. of Maine

Tony Suau - Two time World Press Photo of the Year Award Winning Photographer, co-founder of Facing Change: Documenting America

David H. Wells - freelance photographer based in the northeastern United States, Aurora Photos

Andrew Lichtenstein - photographer, New York City, Facing Change: Documenting America

Ben Roberts - freelance photographer based in South England

Michael Williamson - Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, The Washington Post

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

Loret Steinberg - Professor of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography/R.I.T.

Ida Benedetto - Producer and Editor, BagNewsSalon

 

(photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

 


About:  

BagNewsNotes is the only site dedicated 100% to visual politics and the analysis of news images. In 2011, BagNews led LIFE.com's list of top 20 photo blogs and also won a Picture of the Year International award for Multimedia. Launched in 2004, BNN is closely followed by the political and visual media, the political blogosphere, the photojournalism community and university communications and photojournalism programs.

 

 

TO JOIN THE LIVE WEBINAR:

Sign in early at the online webinar.

If you have not used Open-i and Wimba before, we strongly urge you to arrive to the salon 15 minute early so you can set up your computer with the platform. 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.

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