ViRe members at #ICA19 Washington DC

ViRe Members Katharina Lobinger and Rebecca Venema attended the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) and successfully presented their work. ICA was held in Washington, DC from May 24-29, 2019. Rebecca Venema organized the pre-conference “Crossing boundaries in visual communication research” which took place on May 24 at American University. She also got […]

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Activities of ViRe members at the annual conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) in Münster, Germany

ViRe members Rebecca Venema and Katharina Lobinger attended the 64th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association that took place from May 9 to May 11 2019 in Münster, Germany. Rebecca Venema participated in a meeting of the Young Scholar Representatives of the DGPuK as a young scholars’ representative of the visual communication section. Together with […]

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Katharina Lobinger is invited speaker in a LMUecxellent-project workshop

On March 28 Katharina Lobinger is invited speaker in a workshop on researching stereotypes. The workshop is part of the Zunkunftskonzept LMUecxellent-project  “Wenn aus Menschen Fremde werden? Zur Stereotypisierung des ‘Fremden’ in sozialen Medien für Jugendliche”. Katharina Lobinger will give a talk on the topic “‚Hegemonic visualities‘. Methodische Ansätze der quantitativen und qualitativen Erforschung visueller Stereotype”. In […]

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Katharina Lobinger is a keynote speaker in the 2nd Workshop of the Network “Qualitative Methods”

On Thusday, 25 April 2019, Katharina Lobinger will give a keynote talk on the topic “Datenvielfalt in der qualitativen Multimethoden-Forschung: Überlegungen zur Integration verbaler, visueller und mehrsprachiger Daten” (“Data plurality in qualitative multi-method research: Considerations on the integration of verbal, visual and multilingual data”) during the 2nd Workshop of the Network “Qualitative Methods”. The conference theme is […]

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Katharina Lobinger elected vice president of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM)

Katharina Lobinger zur Vize-Präsidentin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft (SGKM) gewählt In der 44. Ordentlichen Generalversammlung am 4. April 2019 wurde Katharina Lobinger durch die Mitglieder der SGKM zur Vize-Präsidentin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft gewählt. Katharina Lobinger wird sich in dieser Rolle in der Geschäftsleitung insbesondere für Nachwuchsthemen und die Anbindung der Svizzera […]

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2 papers accepted for presentation at IVMC in Bucharest

Two submissions of our ViRe team members, Federico Lucchesi, Seraina Tarnuzter, Rebecca Venema and Katharina Lobinger, were accepted for presentation at the 6thInternational Visual Methods Conference that will take place in Bucharest, Romania, on July 16th-19th. The conference theme is „Crafting a Visual Plot – Epic Images of Mundane Stories“ Both papers focus on methodological […]

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Katharina Lobinger is invited speaker in a LMUecxellent-project workshop

On March 28 Katharina Lobinger is invited speaker in a workshop on researching stereotypes. The workshop is part of the Zunkunftskonzept LMUecxellent-project  “Wenn aus Menschen Fremde werden? Zur Stereotypisierung des ‘Fremden’ in sozialen Medien für Jugendliche”. Katharina Lobinger will give a talk on the topic “‚Hegemonic visualities‘. Methodische Ansätze der quantitativen und qualitativen Erforschung visueller Stereotype”. In […]

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Out now: Two chapters by our project members

The book „zeigen | andeuten | verstecken. Bilder zwischen Verantwortung und Provokation“ edited by C. Schwender, C. Brantner, C. Graubner and J. von Gottberg, has been published! In this book you can find two chapters by Katharina Lobinger (ViRe Project Leader) and Rebecca Venema (Associate Project Member of ViRe). Rebecca Venema focuses on controversial debates […]

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Presentation on ethics in visual communication research by R. Venema

On Friday, March 22, Associate Project Member Rebecca Venema gave a presentation at the ViRe Ethics Workshop. She presented an overview to core ethical challenges in visual communication research and how to deal with questions of informed consent and confidentiality when examining visual media content or using visuals for research purposes.

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