Stormer to moderate online discussion on how photography relates to scientific knowledge
Nathan Stormer, chair of the Communication and Journalism Department at the University of Maine, will moderate an online discussion forum examining how photography communicates and shapes scientific knowledge.
The Reading the Pictures Salon will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1. Experts on visual culture will analyze 10 news and media photographs using the Google Hangouts platform, which will accommodate live audio and video, as well as involvement from viewers via chat.
The discussion is being jointly produced by Reading the Pictures and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. It’s a featured component of Seeing Science, a yearlong UMBC project that explores the role photography plays in shaping, representing and furthering the sciences. The project involves original photo research which will be featured on Twitter, Instagram and archived online following the event.
Panelists include UMBC faculty as well as experts from National Public Radio, National Geographic, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Johns Hopkins University.
Reading the Pictures is a web-based, not-for-profit educational and publishing organization dedicated to visual and media literacy through the analysis of cultural, news and documentary images.
More information about the salon, including registration for the free event, is online.