Picturing the Social: 2014 Conference

7 November 2014

This inaugural conference for the Picturing the Social project was held at the University of Sheffield as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. The conference involved speakers from different academic disciplines and industry, and addressed methodological and interpretative approaches to social media images as well as a range of relevant on-line visual cultures. Members of the lab gave the following presentations:

Farida Vis – ‘Picturing the Social: Analysing Social Media Images’
Francesco D’Orazio – ‘From Tristan and Isolde to Visual Social Media: the pains, pleasures and myths of researching images in social media’
Lin Prøitz – ‘From Self-presentation to #Selfie’. Identity and the self in a visual digital culture*
Anne Burns – ‘Self(ie)-Control: Narratives of Photographic Restraint and the Regulation of Social Conduct’
Simon Faulkner – ‘Thoughts on the ‘Thatcher Death Tweets”

* joined lab in September 2015, to lead the ENGAGE project

All talks were audio recorded to Soundcloud.

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We pinned all our conference images to Pinterest.

Jessica Owens wrote a great post on the Pulsar blog highlighting 7 big ideas about researching images in social media.