Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: What does the conceptual indebtedness to visual metaphors portend for the study of communication? And what can be learned about the metaphoricity of concepts, and their impact upon analytical discourse, from the use of images and visual tropes in communication studies? Focusing on the place of the visual within the theoretical discourse of political communication research, this paper examines two interrelated concepts - Lippmann’s “picturing” and the ubiquitous “framing” - attempting to shed light on their conceptual proclivities by giving an account of them in relation to the 'pictorial turn' in the humanities and social sciences.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Visual techniques such as camera angle and camera-to-subject distance are tools photographers use when making photographs. The angle and distance chosen suggests attributes about the relationship between the subject and viewer that help the viewer to interpret the portrayal. An analysis of award-winning photographs found Presidents of the United States are most often portrayed at eye-level, suggesting a social relationship that allows citizens to relate personally to the President. The analysis found greater variety in the distance at which the President is photographed, suggesting the relationship between viewers and the President changes in different situations.

Publication Type: Individual Poster
Abstract: Background and Aims: Although infant-mother interactions have been studied in contexts, which are focusing on the third objects of mediating their interactions, researchers haven’t focused on the traits of the mediating objects. While mothers interact with infants, they actively interact with objects placed between them. The traits of the objects may influence on strategies that are selected from infant and mother for their interaction. In accordance with intermediating objects, infant may change the strategy to gain his/her maternal attention or change the strategy to request his/her mother to do something. These are similar to maternal behavior on interaction situation.
Reading picture book situation is an obvious triadic interaction situation in infancy. Most mothers tend to think that reading book is very important to their children’s cognition. Since picture books were made up various visual-auditory stimulations, they can be clearly classified to the traits than other materials. They can provoke different interactions between infant and mother according to unique traits of each book. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the mediating objects on infant-mother interactions through reading picture book situations.
Methods: The materials of the study are 5 picture books, which are made by different formats and styles of illustration and text, but treat equally on color concepts. Eighty nine reading book cases of infant (M=24 months, Range=20-28 months) and mothers were analyzed. Their verbal and nonverbal interaction strategies were videotaped and scored in the coding system of this study.
Results and Conclusion: The results revealed that infant and mother made an alteration on their communication strategies for format and illustration trait in each picture book. Maternal verbal strategies of efficient reading (F(4,84)=3.84, p<.01), explain (F(4,84)=5.68, p<.001) and feedback (F(4,84)=2.69, p<.05) are different according to the kinds of picture book. Infant verbal strategies of labeling (F(4,84)=2.55, p<.05) and imitation (F(4,84)=3.64, p<.01) are different too. Also maternal nonverbal strategies of describing gesture (F(4,84)=4.44, p<.01), pointing (F(4,84)=3.17, p<.05) and behavioral request (F(4,84)=2.30, p<.05), and infant nonverbal strategies of describing gesture (F(4,84)=4.43, p<.01) and imitative gesture (F(4,84)=6.41, p<.001)are significantly different according to the kinds of picture book. These finding suggest that context variable including format and trait of picture book could change interaction between infant and mother.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Throughout North America, moving picture shows first appeared and proliferated in the first decade of the twentieth century. The content of the shows was nearly identical across the continent, combining mass-produced and mass-distributed short films and illustrated songs. Early five-cent shows were seen as an obviously modern amusement, founded upon technology and electricity. The social and commercial context of profit-seeking showmanship was seen as a threat to the local domains of religious and family life, prompting calls for stricter regulation. In general, modern innovations in bureaucratic governance matched the modern character of the novelty amusement. The impulse to regulate picture shows in Newfoundland took a relatively parochial form, however, informal and largely without new legislation. The movies thus allow a concise synopsis of how civic governance in St. John’s balanced modern influences with a parochialism that was perhaps singular within North America. This calls into question the character of St. John’s metropolitan relationship to the rest of Newfoundland. Indeed, the case of film regulation illustrates that many requirements of urban governance were able to remain unlegislated, and thus not formally apply throughout the colony.

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.