Visual Communication Division

Portrayals of Women in Late 18th to late 19th Century Paintings

This paper utilizes feminist postmodernist and postcolonial frameworks in the examination of strategies by which a coercive ideology of gender roles has been created and preserved in Western...

Zero Circle: An Auto-Ethnographic Documentary about the Becoming of Graduate Student

This experimental study tested the effect of camera distance in news magazine cover pictures on readers' perception of the newsmaker, news story, and the magazine. Participants (N=157)...

Image Modification and Nature: The Hidden Implications of Photoshop

This paper provides an illustrative analysis of how digital image modification of nature photography re-shapes ecological consciousness. Burke and Baudrillard are utilized as lenses...