Edited by Fabrice Desmarais (with Annick Janson and Elaine Bliss).

Book reviews edited by Richard Varey.

Welcome to a special 'living issue' of PRism.  We already use the instantaneous publishing potential of the web to create 'rolling submissions' procedures for our general issues.  That means we accept contributions throughout the issue year and publish them online as soon as refereeing and editing are complete.  That speeds the publishing process for authors (and not coincidentally spreads our workload!), and means readers get a constant flow of fresh and up-to-date material. 

For this special issue on visual and audio-visual communication, we are taking the rolling submissions concept one step further, to create an ongoing living issue.  If you think your work fits with the themes of this issue, which are about the importance of visual and audio-visual methods to every stage of the research process, and about the need for better theorisation (at many levels and in many ways) of the visual and the audio-visual, then the living issue is open to considering your work for inclusion.  If you have a comment or response to work in the issue, we welcome and will consider for publication your feedback.

A living issue enables works within the issue to respond to and comment on each other.  A living issue enables questions raised in early work to be tracked and expanded over time.  A living issue enables new work to be published rapidly.  A living issue, ideally, facilitates a dialogue that advances and refines the disciplinary area under consideration. 

Be part of this living issue on visual and audio-visual communication.  Read the editorial, below, by two of our special issue guest editors, Annick Janson and Fabrice Desmarais, then click here for the call for papers and be part of something new and, we think, rather exciting and innovative.

And of course, check back regularly to see what's new.  There are many articles already in the refereeing process that will enrich this living issue as it continues to grow.

Editorial

Janson, A., & Desmarais, F. (2006). Editorial: The contribution of audio-visual research methods to the social sciences. PRism 4(3). Available at: http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/viscomms_editorial.html

Refereed Journal Articles

• Bliss, E., & Janson, A. (2007). A very long engagement: Visualising research methodologies from data collection to reporting. PRism 4(3). Available at: http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/blissjanson.html

• Chua, C. (2007). Bombarded by soundful images: An audiovisual account of 9/11. PRism 4(3). Available at: http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/chua.html

• Desmarais, F. (2007). Issues in cross-cultural studies of advertising audiovisual material. PRism 4(3). Available at: http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/desmarais.html

• Hollings, J. (2006). Gathering visual images of the 2004 tsunami: Journalists’ challenges and ethical issues. PRism 4(3). Available at: http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/hollings.html

• Jones, R., MacDowall, L., & Curry, S. (2007). From boys to men: Visual literacies in schools and prisons. PRism 4(3). Available at: http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/boys.html
  

• McAuley, M. (2006). Interpreting the visual image: An analysis of design students’ analogical interpretations of a textual message PRism 4(3). Available at: http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/mcauley.html
  
  

Contributor Biographies

• Click here for information on the contributors whose refereed or commentary articles appear in this issue.

Book Reviews

• Tom Watson's review of John Tulloch's One Day in July
• Catherine Strong's review of Brad Schultz's Broadcast News Producing
• Sean Phelan's review of Eric Louw's The Media and Political Process

Would you like to contribute a book review, conference report, or academic or commentary article?  We welcome your input, including your feedback on items in this issue.  Please see the ongoing call for papers page for guidelines for reviews and articles.

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