CALL FOR PAPERS: visual and audio-visual communication
Submission deadline extended until July 28, 2006.

Topic parameters:
Research in visual and audio-visual communication is one of the youngest within the social sciences. There are no established criteria to conduct this type of research, however, the fields of psychology, education, art history, ethnography, cultural studies, and multimedia studies can provide some guiding principles toward building empirical knowledge.

Articles for this special issue of Prism can address a very wide range of perspectives on audio-visual and visual communication. Articles might: offer case studies of audio-visual teaching tools and relate their effectiveness or otherwise to established learning theories; review innovative tools to collect, analyse, or report audio-visual and visual information during the research process; offer case studies of innovative use of visual or audio-visual communication techniques in business or the arts; analyse visual or audio-visual elements in public information campaigns; compare print media with other visual or audio-visual coverage of specific events or issues; offer semiotic readings of visual communication elements in a range of contexts; or otherwise analyse visual and audio-visual communication elements in research methods and practices, education, learning, personal development, teacher development, public communication, the media, leadership development, or other ar!
eas.

The uniting factor for the articles in the special issue will be their attention to visual and audio-visual communication factors, and their provision of these visual and audio-visual materials online on the site, accompanying the published articles, in a way that off-line publishing cannot offer to the same degree. Articles can be either full-length submissions for refereeing, or short slide presentations, opinion pieces or case studies (including teaching case studies) for the commentary section.

Notes for intending authors:
Please send articles of up to 5000 words to Annick Janson [a.janson@auckland.ac.nz] by July 28, 2006, for refereeing, or contact her to discuss shorter contributions. Please indicate "Call for Papers - PRism 2006" in the subject line of emails. Expressions of interest (abstracts up to 500 words) may also be sent to the Editor before this date. Please see http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/audio-visual_communication.html for more information.

PRism (ISSN 1448-4404) http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/prism_on-line_journ.html is a free-access, online, fully-refereed academic public relations and communication journal. It was established in 2002 to meet the need for readily available, quality controlled communication research materials online, and published its first issue in 2003. PRism is co-sponsored by Massey University, New Zealand, and Bond University, Australia, and is supported by an editorial board comprising 50 international communication academics.
Guest editors

Dr Annick Janson
Excelerator - New Zealand Leadership Institute
The University of Auckland Business School, The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019,
Auckland New Zealand
a.janson@auckland.ac.nz

Dr Fabrice Desmarais
Department of Management Communication
Waikato Management School
The University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105
Hamilton, New Zealand
Fabrice@waikato.ac.nz

Note: This topic will become our first PRism "living archive".
Articles will be published online after being reviewed on a case by case process (rather than closing off the issue after a pre-established deadline). This ability to build the issue as a living document and create a dialogue between its successive contributions will differentiate PRism as an online publication.

A special edition team for the audio visual communication topic will assist the editors to set up the 'online living archive' process, including assisting with refereeing. Please contact Annick Janson if you are interested in joining the special edition team for 2006. All team members will have their contributions acknowledged on the site.

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