Locating Social Change Visually: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This panel seeks to investigate the myriad venues through which visual communication may effect social change. Drawing from visual rhetoric, critical theory, content analysis, and pedagogical perspectives, this panel demonstrates the wide-reaching scope of opportunities for social change made available through visual communication, while simultaneously indicating the interdisciplinary reach of visual communication studies. Ranging from self-awareness to activism, the projects of visual communication are shown to possess material effects.

Sub Unit

• Visual Communication Division

Respondent

• Carey M. Noland, Northeastern University

Session Organizer

• Troy Cooper, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign