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BagNewsSalon: Campaign Mania at http://bit.ly/BagNewsSalon

January 29, 2012 from 6pm to 7:30pm

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)…See More

Jan 21, 2012

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Michael Shaw is attending OPEN-i's event

BagNewsSalon - The Great Recession: Analyzing the Media's Visual Framing of the Unending Economic Crisis at Wimba

October 16, 2011 from 6pm to 7pm

Date: Sunday, October 16thTime: 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…See More

Oct 7, 2011

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Michael Shaw might attend Jennifer Pollard's event

Live Webinar Debate : "Aesthetics have no place in photographing famine" with David Campbell and Jon Levy, Thursday August 18th 17.00GMT at open-i webinar

August 18, 2011 from 6pm to 8pm

On July 16th, David Campbell posted a blog article titled 'Famine Iconography as a Sign of Failure,' that resulted in a fierce twitter debate between himself and Jon Levy of Foto8 (the exchange can be viewed…See More

Aug 15, 2011

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Michael Shaw is attending OPEN-i's event

BagNews Salon: The Fall of Bin Laden Sunday, June 5, 2011, 8pm EST, 5pm PST at wimba open-i

June 5, 2011 from 8pm to 10pm

BagNews Salon: The Fall of Bin Laden(Note that this is 02.00 GMT June 6th) The "Security Room" photo of the White House National Security team generated days of analysis throughout the internet. The unreleased photograph of Osama Bin Laden's corpse generated polarizing discussions over the visual politics of his death. At this BagNews Salon, an expert panel will analyze images of one of the most anticipated moments in American international politics over the past decade. How was it visualized…See More

May 30, 2011

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Michael Shaw is attending OPEN-i's event

Live webinar with BAG NEWS NOTES on Egypt's 18 day Revolution Date: March 20th Time: 18.00 GMT at Wimba

March 20, 2011 from 6pm to 8pm

Assignment Egypt: Analyzing News Photos from the 18 day RevolutionDate: March 20thTime: 10.00 am PST, 13.00 pm EST, 17.00GMT/ London, 19.00 pm CairoAn invited panel will discuss the images from the recent events in Egypt. Participants includeDavid Campbell, Lecturer, Researcher, Producer, Multimedia and PhotojournalismMichelle Woodward, Photo Editor, Middle East ReportDavid Degner, photographer, CairoLoret Steinberg, Professor of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography/R.I.T. – BagNews…See More

Mar 9, 2011

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Photoblogs Right Here Right Now Seminar - FORMAT International Photography festival, Derby UK 15.00 GMT at Wimba

March 6, 2011 from 3pm to 4:30pm

This live Seminar on Photoblogs from the Format international Photography Festival panel includes: *Andy Adams *Yumi Goto *Amy Stein Chaired by Alfredo Cramerotti Moderated by Louise Clements Seminar will look at and beyond a list of the most interesting photoblogs - tackling some of these broad questions:…See More

Jan 17, 2011

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Michael Shaw is attending OPEN-i's event

Live webinar on America's Great Oil Spil with BAG news notes 18.00 GMT july 18th at open-i

July 18, 2010 from 6pm to 7:30pm

Title: Looking at America's Great Oil Spill: An Interactive Panel Discussion hosted by BagNewsNotes.comWhen: Sunday, July 18 at 11am PST, 1pm CST, 2pm EST, 6pm GMT and 7pm BST for an hour and a half.Who: Scheduled to participate John Moore – photographer/Getty PicturesErika Blumenfeld – Artist and Documentary PhotographerKari Goodnough – photographer/Bloomberg PhotosLoret Steinberg – Professor of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography/R.I.T. – BagNews ConsultantNathan Stormer – Professor…See More

Jul 13, 2010

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Jul 12, 2010

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Current position and base (organization, company, etc.): Publisher, BAGnewsNotes.com

BAGnewsNotes is the only blog dedicated 100% to visual politics and the analysis of news images. The blog also features original politically-oriented photojournalism from top-name photographers. Current contributers include Alan Chin, Nina Berman, Mario Tama, Lori Grinker and Zoriah Miller.

Launched in 2004, BAGnewsNotes is often reference in university visual studies and communications programs, and is closely followed by the political and visual media, the political blogosphere, and also the photojournalism community. Distinguished visual theorists Robert Hariman (Chairman of the Communications program at Northwestern) and John Lucaites (professor of Communications at Indiana U.) are also contributers.

In 2006, BAGnewsNotes was a Webby Awards finalist for Best Political Blog (along with Huffington Post and Columbia Journalism Review). In collaboration with photographer Alan Chin, who freelanced in Iraq for the NYT in '05, we developed a model this year for independent visual campaign coverage as documented by this series (http://blog.livebooks.com/tag/photo-assignments-from-bloggers/) at the Live Books Resolve blog.

We also host The BAGnewsSalon (http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/the_bagnewssalon/index.html), an on-line, real-time discussion between photojournalists, visual academic and other invited guests on the BAGnewsNotes blog. Each salon examines a set of images related to a topic relevant to visual politics and photojournalism.

Last year, I also was a contributor to PopPhoto, the American Photo blog and I wrote the afterword to Nina Berman's new book, Homeland.

BAGnewsNotes is averaging approximately 50K visitors and about 75K page views per week

Biography: My name is Michael Shaw. I am a Clinical Psychologist; writer; analyst of visual journalism; interpreter of political images; and the curator of this project called BAGnewsNotes.

"The BAG" offers a daily semiotic analysis of news and political images from a political, cultural or psychological point of view, and is also a platform for original social photography and photojournalism. BAGnewsNotes is closely followed by the political blogosphere, the photojournalism community and is widely referred to in university visual studies and communications programs.

My clinical training -- which is woven into my commentary -- involves the psychology of character and the everyday presentation of self. My research has dealt primarily with symbolic expression, the process of visual narrative, and the psychological function of metaphor.

In addition to my private practice, I spent nine years as the consulting psychotherapist at The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), the highly-regarded architecture and design program in Los Angeles. For five years before that, I served the same function at Otis College of Art and Design. Counting both experiences, I have spent thousands of hours collaborating with students and design professionals in their creative process, as well as participating in the formal and informal analysis and critique of visual images.

My experience with cyberspace began in the early eighties. Working for a publishing technology firm in New York, I was involved in developing some of the first on-line, interactive graphic content designed specifically for the public. It was from these early services (know at the time as "videotex") that the html standard emerged, and new communication companies, such as AOL and Yahoo, first took shape.

The BAGnewsNotes blog began in June 2003. If you're interested in where the name came from, the current site grew out of a civics tool/visual experiment/political cartoon called BAGnews. Beginning in mid-2004, however, spurred by perceived peculiarities in the photo coverage of the Bush-Kerry presidential campaign, I turned my attention to this new "discipline" -- the visual analysis of political images.

Besides this site, I have been a regular contributor to the Huffington Post since September '05, writing a blog feature called "Reading The Pictures."

BNN has received important recognition over the years, including:

*Webby Awards finalist for Best Political Blog (along with Huffington Post and Columbia Journalism Review) -- 2006.

* Winner -- 2006 Koufax Award -- Best Post.

*Winner -- First Gilliard Grant of Merit for Excellence in Journalism and News Blogging -- Netroots Nation 2008.

*Credential blogger -- 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Specialities & interests: visual politics
photojournalism
media critique
the blog as a medium for visual narrative and visual critique
characterological psychology/body language/presentation of self in everyday life

Current geographic base:: North America

Category(ies) that best describe(s) me:: other

I have a:: blog

Web URL: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com

Contact details (email, phone, IM, etc.): Michael Shaw, Ph.D.
mshaw@bagnews.com
01.310.707.7376
twitter/@bagnewsnotes
facebook/michael shaw
skype/workpsyche

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At 5:22am on July 9, 2009, paul lowe said…: hi mike
great to have you on board, i'm a big fan of BAG news, please feel free to contribute or just to lurk

cheers paul