Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: A study was conducted to the relationship of visualizing and verbalizing cognitive styles and the processing of news photographs. First, a mediation model was tested that predicted that attention mediates the relationship between visualizing and photo memory. Second, the relationship between cognitive styles and perceptions was examined. Both visualizing and attention predict memory, but the former does not work through the latter. Further, high visualizers perceived the news photos as more interesting and more unified. As expected, a person’s verbalizing level did not predict attention to or memory for the new photographs. The results are discussed in terms of visualizer’s efficiency in processing visual stimuli.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Building from previous studies of the visual portrayal of the Gulf War in 1991, this essay analyzes pictorial coverage of the recent invasion of Iraq in the three major U.S. news magazines, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A survey of the published photographs accompanying newsmagazine articles on “Operation Iraqi Freedom” indicates that some prominent patterns of pictorial portrayal identified in studies of the first Gulf War were repeated. However, the establishment of a different central news theme, “The Road to Baghdad,” seems to have produced different parameters for photo coverage, setting limits for the range of photo material published and inhibiting the publication of pictures that did not clearly support the “official story.” The end result: an overall picture of the invasion of Iraq that is contained within the narrative/myth of American rescue and supremacy. A picture that provides cohesive support for the U.S. Government's version of circumstances, motivations and events, and is without divergent images that might prompt questions or raise doubts about the the official version of the American deposition of a tyrant.

Publication Type: Session Paper
Abstract: North Korea is a very closed and exclusive country, thus not many have seen the ‘reality’ of North Korea. Our information about the North Korea is very limited because we only get the filtered information through the representation on the media. But it is necessary to point out that it is no use to clarify whether the media representation is correct or not. This is because the reality we accept is already constructed by the ‘re-presentation.’ Among the various ways of representation including verbal text, sound, and visual images, the visual is crucial because people tend to believe in ‘photographic truth.’ In other words, they tend to think that photos automatically reflect the real.
In this paper, we will study the role of photography in representing (and constructing the image of) North Korea. More specifically, we will examine how the representation of North Korea differs in the news photos in Korea, U.S.A., and Japan. We will gather the photos during the period of 6 months and categorize them by specific themes. Through this analysis, we will figure out how those three countries differently represent North Korea. It will provide us the way how the representation and meanings are constructed according to the culture and context.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: During the early morning hours of August 31, 1970, Philadelphia Daily News photographer Elwood Smith took a picture of members of Philadelphia’s Black Panther Party being strip-searched at gunpoint by Philadelphia police officers. The photograph spawned almost instantaneous, passionate responses filling the Daily News’ editorial page for more than a week. In these responses, readers both lambasted and praised the newspaper for printing the photo, decrying the image as a degrading portrayal of the Black Panthers and lauding the paper for granting audiences the ability to witness for themselves the early morning Philadelphia police raids. Drawing upon local print news coverage, editorials, and letters to the editor, this paper argues that Elwood Smith’s photograph captured not only a poignant moment of police action. The multilayered photo simultaneously drew attention to the tenuous space occupied by the Daily News vis a vis city politics and the Philadelphia Police Department. Varied responses to the photo served as a demonstration of both the authority of the image and the news organization that chose to print Elwood Smith’s work.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper describes photo-elicitation interview methodology for the use of studying urban childhood and schooling. I also discusses photo-elicitation interviews (PEI), a qualitative methodology, by addressing its fundamentals, providing examples of how to use it, and arguing its benefits and potential challenges. PEI is when researchers introduce photographs into the interview context. The photographs used in PEI can originate from the interviewee or the researcher. Researchers can use photographs as a tool to expand on questions and, simultaneously, subjects can use photographs to provide a unique way to communicate dimensions of their lives.