<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Chris Birks research</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> <meta name="keywords" content="birks, research"/> <meta name="description" content="Research by Chris Birks"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="birkscss.css"/> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico"/><!-- favicon created at http://www.chami.com/HTML-KIT/services/favicon/ --><script language="JAVASCRIPT" type="TEXT/JAVASCRIPT"> <!-- Hide script from old browsers if (document.images) { menu1 = new Image menu2 = new Image menu1.src = "images/menuphoto1.png" menu2.src = "images/menuphoto2.png" } else { menu1 = "" menu2 = "" document.roll = "" } <!--Below is the date part --> theDate = new Date() weekday = theDate.getDay() month = theDate.getMonth()+1 day = theDate.getDate() year = theDate.getFullYear() someday = new Array (7) someday[0] = "Sunday" someday[1] = "Monday" someday[2] = "Tuesday" someday[3] = "Wednesday" someday[4] = "Thursday" someday[5] = "Friday" someday[6] = "Saturday" <!-- The above part is the date part, the below part is the "updated on" part. //--> now = new Date expireDate = new Date expireDate.setMonth(expireDate.getMonth()+6) lastVisit = new Date(cookieVal("pageVisit")) document.cookie = "pageVisit="+now+";expires=" + expireDate.toGMTString() function cookieVal(cookieName) { thisCookie = document.cookie.split("; ") for (i=0; i<thisCookie.length; i++) { if (cookieName == thisCookie[i].split("=")[0]) { return thisCookie[i].split("=")[1] } } return "1 January 1970" } </script><style type="text/css"> <!-- .style10 { font-size: 12; font-style: italic; } --> </style><map name="rollmap"> <area onmouseover="document.ht.src=menu2.src" onmouseout="document.ht.src=menu1.src" href="http://birksland.com/" shape="RECT" coords="4,4,78,15"/><!-- The rectangle statement defines a rectangle with top left at (x0,y0) and bottom right at (x1,y1), and the URL to use if the mouse click lies within the rectangle. // --></map><script language="javascript"> AC_FL_RunContent = 0; </script><script language="javascript" src="../Documents/Birksland.com/AC_RunActiveContent.js"> </script></head> <body bgcolor="#000000"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" width="90%" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#333333" height="237" width="19%"> <p align="right"> <span class="style1 style7">Birksland </span> </p> <h3 class="style5" align="right">Papers, presentations and publications <br/>by Chris Birks</h3> <p align="right"> <img border="0" name="ht" align="right" src="images/menuphoto1.png" usemap="#rollmap"/> </p> </td> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" width="81%"><p>Birks, C. (2011, October 29). Challenges of leading a photo department. Presented at the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisors annual convention, Orlando, FL.</p> <p>Birks, C. (2011, October 27). The new photojournalist: Still and video knowledge. Presented at the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisors annual convention, Orlando, FL. </p> <p>Birks, C. (2011, October 27). Should we run this: A discussion of media ethics and law. Presented at the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisors annual convention, Orlando, FL.</p> <p>Birks, C. (2011, October 21). Shoots seen around the world: Contemporary news photographs that changed public opinion. Fall colloquial speaker, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL.<br /> </p> <p>Birks, C. (2011, May 6). <a href="images/workshop slides - advocacy.pdf">Effective communication for community organizing</a>. Philippine Youth Leadership Program workshop. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.</p> <p>Birks, C. (2011, January 10). <a href="images/advocatingchange.pdf"><em>Advocating change</em></a>. Presented during the US State Department sponsored Philippine Minorities Program - The Past Is Always Ahead of Us: Empowering Indigenous and Minority Leaders in the Southern Philippines. Davao, Philippines.</p> <p>Panelist. (2010, October 30). Critique and selection of photos from the on-site competition for student photojournalists from the Associated Collegiate Press annual convention, Louisville, KY. <br/> <br/> Birks, C. (2010, October 29).&nbsp;<em>Challenges of leading a photo department. </em>Presented at the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisors annual convention, Louisville, KY.<br/> <br/> Birks, C. (2010, October 28).&nbsp;<em><a href="http://tegr.it/y/21a7">Creating an online portfolio&nbsp;using blog software.</a> </em>Presented at the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisors annual convention, Louisville, KY.<br/> <br/> Birks, C. (2010, October 20). <a href="images/workshop slides - advocacy.pdf"> <em>Effective Communication for Grassroots Advocacy</em> </a><em>(part two). </em>Empowering Indigenous and Minority Leaders in the Southern Philippines workshop. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. <br/> <br/> Birks, C. (2010, June). <a href="images/workshop slides - advocacy.pdf"> <em>Effective Communication for Grassroots Advocacy</em> </a><em>(part one). </em>Empowering Indigenous and Minority Leaders in the Southern Philippines workshop. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. </p> <p align="left">Birks, C. (2010, February 20).<em> <a href="images/ICPA PhotoShop.pdf">Photoshop 101: The five basic steps everyone should know to tone pictures.</a></em> Presented&nbsp;at the Illinois College Press Association annual convention, Chicago.<br/><br/>Birks, C. (2010, February 20). <em> <a href="images/ICPA ethics.pdf">Should we run this? A discussion on concerns for publishing certain types of pictures.</a> </em>Presented&nbsp;at the Illinois College Press Association annual convention, Chicago.</p> <p align="left">Panelist. (2009, October 25). Critique /selection of photos from the on-site competition for student photojournalists from the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisors annual convention, Austin, TX. </p> <p align="left">Birks, C. (2009, April). <em> <a href="images/workshop slides - advocacy.pdf">Effective Public Speaking</a> </em>. Philippine Youth Leadership Program workshop. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.</p> <p align="left">Birks, C. (2009, March 7).<a href="images/rockford gatekeeping.pdf"> <em>Choosing the 'Right' One: An Examination of the visual gatekeeping process in a newspaper newsroom.</em></a><em> </em>Presented to the Visual Communication Division at the midwinter conference for the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Norman, OK.</p> <p>Birks, C. (2009, March 7). <em> <a href="images/Anatta paper.pdf">Anatta-net. Comparing the Buddhist concept of no-self to the structure of the Internet.</a> </em>Presented to the Media and Religion group at the midwinter conference for the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Norman, OK. <a href="home.html">Anatta-net accompanying web site</a></p> Birks, C. (2008, August 7). <em> <a href="images/spot news.pdf">That is&nbsp;the one! An examination of spot news photography choices</a> </em><a href="images/spot news.pdf">.</a> Presented to the Visual Communication Division at the annual conference of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago. 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