EAC Community Hour: Visual Literacy and Instagram through a #SocialJustice Lens

Join the VRA's Equitable Action Committee (EAC) on Thursday, May 26th at 2:00-3:00pm EDT/ 11:00am-12:00pm PDT for our May Community Hour: Visual Literacy and Instagram through a #SocialJustice Lens with guest presenters Sara Schumacher and Millie Fullmer.How can Instagram provide insights into the intersection of visual literacy and social justice, which we can leverage for instruction and outreach efforts? Join us in exploring topics including cultural appropriation, digital blackface, algorithmic influence on the body, creator bias concerning gender, sexuality, and race, and filter bubbles.Sara Schumacher is the Architecture Image Librarian at Texas Tech University. Her research interests include visual literacy instruction, ethics, and bias.Millie Fullmer is the Acquisitions and Cataloging Librarian at the University of San Diego. Her research includes decolonizing library collections and metadata, and visual literacy instruction.They are two of the co-authors of The Framework for Visual Literacy in Higher Education, Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.As always, we do not record the community hours to encourage free and open discussion.Do you have a specific question for our guests? Add it to the discussion prompt section in the Community Hour doc here.Click here to register for EAC's Community Hour! Have an idea for a future Community Hour? Share your idea with this form!Best,Lael J. Ensor-Bennett and Lesley ChapmanEAC Co-Chairs