Watch the Reading The Pictures Salon: The Visual Framing of the Migrant Crisis
Photos of the migrant crisis have dominated the media over the past year. What can we learn from the way traditional and social media, primarily in the west, has depicted the story? An expert panel discusses the imagery in this Reading the Pictures Salon.
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The Lens in the Mirror: How Surveillance is Pictured in the Media and Public Culture — A Joint Open Society-BagNews Salon
Presenting a joint Open Society Foundation/BagNews Salon examining the visual representation of surveillance as expressed in traditional and social media.
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The BagNewsSalon at Photoville 2014: The Most Significant News Photos of the Year
Join us at Photoville 2014 for a distinguished panel and our reading and analysis of some of the key photos of 2014.
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Watch the BagNews Salon: The Visual Framing of Kiev and the Battle for Independence Square
The purpose of this BagNewsSalon discussion is to better understand the visual dynamics and editorial framing of the battle for control of Ukraine and the events in Independence Square.
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The Debate Over White House Photo Access: The BagNews Salon (with Video Highlights)
Watch video highlights of the salon as an esteemed panel, mostly current or former White House photojournalists, discuss the ins-and-outs of presidential photo coverage.
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BagNewsSalon – Photoville ’13: Photojournalism in Flux (with Video Highlights)
This BagNews Salon, to be held at the 2013 Photoville photo festival in Brooklyn, examines eight photos that have either been the subject of debate or relate to current issues surrounding the practice of photojournalism.
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BagNewsSalon: "Unnecessary Roughness: Football as a Reflection of American Culture"
This BagNews Salon features a distinguished panel of sports scholars and photojournalists analyzing a select edit of media photos dealing with football and American culture.
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BagNewsSalon: The Picture from Syria
"The Picture from Syria": An analysis of the media imagery of the Syrian civil war.
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Campaign ’12: The Stretch Run – Oct 10th Live Salon at Columbia University
BagNewsNotes and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism present a live salon examining the photojournalistic coverage and visual framing of the 2012 presidential race.
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BagNewsSalon: "The War on Women"
WATCH the replay of the BagNewsSalon - The War on Women.
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BagNewsSalon: "The Visual Chemistry of Kony 2012"
Sponsored by Open-i On May 20th, in collaboration with Open-i, the BagNews Salon hosted “The Visual Chemistry of Kony 2012”: An analysis of the viral video campaign by Invisible Children. How do visual campaigns like the Kony 2012 viral video backfire in their success? What made Kony 2012 so...
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BagNewsSalon Preview: Can Mitt Hold a Photograph?
Here, it seems as if Team Romney had its prayers answered after an urgent call to central casting.
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BagNews Salon Preview: What makes Win McNamee’s Newt/Callista Candy Store Photo as Sweet as it is?
We'll be discussing this photo as part of Sunday's BagNews "Campaign Mania" Salon with an expert cast of photographers, visual academics and political analysts. Hope you'll join us!
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The BagNews Campaign Mania Salon
The BagNewsSalon, a program of BagNewsNotes, brings together the world's leading photojournalists, visual academics and other informed observers to understanding how the visual media frames the key social and political events of the day. The next Salon, "Campaign Mania" involves an early look at the 2012 presidential campaign. ...
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BagNewsSalon: The Visual Politics of Occupy Wall Street
Talking 9 pics in 90 minutes. The BagNewsSalon, a program of BagNewsNotes, is dedicated to understanding how the visual media frames the key social and political events of the day. An invited panel will discuss the visual culture of the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
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BagNewsSalon: The Visual Framing of “The Great Recession”
Join us the next BagNewsSalon discussing the framing of the great recession in the United States and Europe. The Salon includes photographers who have been covering the recession in depth and academics specializing in the visual rhetoric of poverty and social welfare.
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John Moore: Surviving the U.S. Recession
We at BagNews are proud to provide this audio slideshow drawing attention to a recession that may have ended on paper, but in practical terms, continues to plague so many Americans. Also, we are pleased to offer this forum to John Moore, a compassionate and truly gifted photographer so...
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BagNews Salon: The Fall of Bin Laden
At this BagNews Salon, an expert panel will analyze images of one of the most anticipated moments in American international politics over the past decade, the killing of Osama bin Laden. What was shown, and what does it reveal about the political biases and long building expectations for this...
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