A Joint Reading the Pictures/UMBC Salon
The event is live online: Register required (more info below)

If photography was invented so that the sciences could communicate with each other, now it is as much about making that investigation relevant to consumers, investors and alternately curious, fearful or enthralled citizens. This discussion is interested in science as a social agenda and a media phenomenon. It’s about the popularization of science, the attitude and approach on the part of science toward its own activities and what the general public sees of it.

The Reading the Pictures Salon brings together experts on visual culture to converse about and analyze a group of ten news and media photographs in an online discussion format. This Salon is being jointly produced with Reading the Pictures and UMBC. It is a featured component of SEEING SCIENCE, a year-long project that explores the role photography plays in shaping, representing, and furthering the sciences. This project also involves original photo research which will be featured on Twitter, Instagram and then archived here following the live event.

We will be holding the talk on the Google HangOut platform accommodating live audio and video with involvement from viewers via live chat. The online HangOut will be led by moderator and visual scholar, Nate Stormer.

The event is free but registration is required: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/10/science-in-media-salon/

Panelists:
Rebecca Adelman, UMBC Professor of Media & Communication Studies
Ben de la Cruz Multimedia Editor, Science Desk, NPR
Marvin Heiferman, Curator and Producer, Seeing Science: Photography, Science & Visual Culture and Visiting Senior Scholar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Author, Photography Changes Everything
Corey Keller, Curator of Photography, SFMOMA
Kurt Mutchler, Senior Editor, Science Photography Department, National Geographic magazine
Max Mutchler, Hubble Heritage Project, Space Telescope Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Nathan Stormer (Moderator), Department Chair and Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine

Photo: Daniel Stier, From Ways of Knowing, 2015.