A Reading the Pictures Salon in partnership with the Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Data Science Institute's Center for Data, Media and Society, co-creators (with Professor of Journalism Nina Berman and the DVMM Lab at Columbia’s School of Engineering) of the VizPol tool.
Many political activists see visual news coverage as an opportunity. Beyond its reporting function, visual media also serves as a performative space and a signaling platform for a wide range of political movements. The goal of this Salon is to better understand the key investigative and editorial challenges surrounding the visual identity of social and activist groups, and the use of their symbols for branding, outreach, and manipulation. We will discuss how this applies to a broad spectrum of political movements, including right-wing paramilitary and antifascist groups, as well as other types of organizations.
Moderator: Michael Shaw, Publisher, Reading the Pictures
Panelists*:
Leslie A. Hahner, Professor of Communication, Baylor University.
Ishaan Jhaveri, Research Fellow, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University.
Brian Palmer, Peabody Award–winning journalist and documentary photographer based in Richmond, Virginia.
*Additional panelists to be added.
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