IVSA Conference 2024 Announcement
It is our pleasure to communicate the announcement issued by IVSA: 41st International Visual Sociology Association Conference.
▪️ TITLE: Visual Accountability: Show, don't tell
▪️ VENUE: Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico.
▪️ DATES: June 26-29, 2024
The 2024 IVSA conference is dedicated to exploring the concept of “visual accountability” or visually mediated practices of regulation and control. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, and accelerating through it, we identified a shift in progress whereby digital images took an increasingly central role in constructing, maintaining and transforming formal and informal processes of adjudicating what counts as true. What kind of images are considered valid, is allowed and accepted as-if true? How do they convince, and get authorized, and become usable?
Will visual accountability be used in the ways accounting itself is used by governments, international organizations and corporations to govern and subjugate vulnerable individuals? How can the less powerful respond and resist? It is worth wondering how digital image sharing contributes to digital infrastructures and impacts practices of enacting certain truths in everyday life. Particular ways of looking that are honed online and emerge out of digital sociality, challenge visual sociology to devise new ways to dialogue with audiences across the academy, bring sociological understandings to the quotidian micro-level, and connect the practice of sociology to broader public issues.
Conference Co-Directors: Dr. Carolina Cambre and Dr. Elizabeth Ocampo
SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN
DEADLINE: JANUARY 30, 2024
The International Visual Sociology Association invites submissions for its 41st annual meeting. Abstracts that match the conference themes are welcome, in addition abstracts may also address other topics relating to visual methods, theories, and the visual analysis of society, culture and social relationships, beyond the general conference theme.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
• Images as legitimation
• Post-truth, trust, and verification
• Visual methodologies and accountability
• Visual theory and digital representation
• Public perception and deep fakes
• Activism, engagement and “situatedness”
• Visibility, invisibility and the edited image
• Digital sociality and performance
• Surveillance and sousveillance
• Seeing and being seen – social media
• Approaches to AI
• Photographs as “proof” in the everyday (work and social)
• Game playing, social interaction, and machine vision
• Re/Presentation saving face/losing face
• Digital crowds: sociological publics
• Hyper-scrutiny the 21st century
• Surveillance-based social credit systems
• Visual ethics, collaboration & the researcher gaze
• Framing the digital gaze