Kwantlen Polytechnic University KORA: Kwantlen Open Resource Access Faculty Researcher Profiles Office of Research and Scholarship 2014 Visual Media Workshop - Katie Warfield, Aaron Goodman, Chad Skelton (Faculty of Arts, Journalism and Communication) Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Office of Research and Scholarship. Follow this and additional works at: http://kora.kpu.ca/facultyprofiles Part of the Communication Technology and New Media Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, and the Social Media Commons Recommended Citation Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Office of Research and Scholarship., "Visual Media Workshop - Katie Warfield, Aaron Goodman, Chad Skelton (Faculty of Arts, Journalism and Communication)" (2014). Faculty Researcher Profiles. Profile 5. http://kora.kpu.ca/facultyprofiles/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Office of Research and Scholarship at KORA: Kwantlen Open Resource Access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Researcher Profiles by an authorized administrator of KORA: Kwantlen Open Resource Access. For more information, please contact kora@kpu.ca. Kwantlen Polytechnic University KORA: Kwantlen Open Resource Access All Faculty Scholarship Faculty Scholarship 2014 Visual Media Workshop KPU - Office of Research and Scholarship Follow this and additional works at: http://kora.kpu.ca/facultypub Part of the Communication Technology and New Media Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Public Relations and Advertising Commons, and the Social Influence and Political Communication Commons This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at KORA: Kwantlen Open Resource Access. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of KORA: Kwantlen Open Resource Access. For more information, please contact chris.burns@kpu.ca. Office of Research and Scholarship Spotlight Faculty Researcher Profiles Faculty of Arts - Journalism and Communication Visual Media Workshop Snapshot KPU faculty members Katie Warfield, Aaron Goodman, and Chad Skelton are all driven to understand the digital world and how its mediated images are processed, analyzed, and assessed by surrounding audiences. The three members are interested in three main categories of research: (1) critical digital visual literacy, (2) digital visual storytelling, and (3) data visualization. Key Research Goals By analyzing instagram, Youtube, selfies, Google Glass, drone photography, digital storytelling, Upworthy, and data visualization, these three researchers plan to: • engage the community on digital visual literacy • promote virtual collaboration • continue to educate students and the community through workshops and master classes • research and publish cutting edge research on digital visual media What Have The Researchers Done? To-date, these three researchers at KPU have: • paved the way for academic research surrounding selfies worldwide • empowered the community, health, and education-related organizations worldwide via digital storytelling workshops • advocated that audiences of visual media be actively engaged rather than passively accepting of visual images and their messages Aaron Goodman Katie Warfield Chad Skelton Impact of Research • The selfie research benefits women, as it brings light to the negative hegemonic discourse surrounding selfies and self-portraiture by young girls • The workshops benefit the community by training people how to actively process, analyze, and assess visual media • KPU, its faculty, and students benefit from being apart of such innovative research and workshops What’s Next? • Katie Warfield plans to partner with photographer Vivienne McMaster to create Selfies Workshops for young female-identifying students and continue Selfie research • Aaron Goodman plans to hold three-day Digital Storytelling workshops to help empower people to share and create their own digital stories • Chad Skelton will use his Data Visualization projects to bring awareness to many social topics of concern and will begin to offer workshops • Check out Digital Media workshop online: thevisualmedia.com Check Out Some Digital Stories Online: 1. The Barn - A digital story by Jan Thompson, Geography http://vimeo.com/99772078 2. Lugard Road - A digital story by Ivy Ng, Psychology Lab http://vimeo.com/100430654 3. In Freya’s Hall - A digital story by Zoe Landale, Creative Writing http://vimeo.com/100435956 4. Our Ecocidal Species - A digital story by Warren Bourgeois, Philosophy http://vimeo.com/100430342 For further information please visit: libguides.kpu.ca/kora and kpu.ca/research