#ICA26 Cape Town

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VCSD Reception

Join the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division for a members-only reception (funded by the Division).

Registration is required to attend and you will need to present your ticket on arrival to partake in the catering and beverages.

Please also consider making a donation to The Paul Messaris Visual Communication Studies Development Fund, which advances the Division’s internationalization mission to be an inclusive, border-spanning, and vibrant community of scholars from all corners of the globe. Any donations made to the Paul Messaris Visual Communication Studies Development Fund are tax deductible in the U.S.

#ICA25 Denver

Congratulations to our awardees at the Annual ICA Conference 2025 held at the Hyatt Regency (main conference venue) in Denver, CO, with the theme of Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research:

#ICA@75 #ICA25 #VCSD

Top Student Paper:
Pixels of Prejudice: Decoding Embedded Biases in AI-Generated News Imagery and their Implications for Visual Journalism—Toward an Algorithmic-Mediated Visual Framing by Menna Elhosary (City St George’s, University of London)

Top Faculty Paper:
Disrupting Inclusion: Seeing Disability in a Public Education Campaign by Kuansong Victor Zhuang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Outstanding Journal Article Award:
Landcare and landscapes and accidental beauty: failing digital technologies and the gaze of child researchers by Alexandra Lasczik, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Maia Osborn, Lisa Siegel, and Marianne Logan (Southern Cross University, Queensland, Australia) — published in the journal Visual Communication

Top Dissertation Award:
Military Power in an Information Battlefield: Revisiting the Role of Images in Human Rights Contexts by Anat Leshnick (Information Society Project at Yale Law School)

Rockstar Reviewer:
Manatalah Soliman (Edith Cowan University)