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The International Sociological Association Research Committee RC57 (ISA-RC57) is the owner and the controller of the processing of personal data collected on this site pursuant to and for the purposes of EU Regulation 679/2016 (GDPR).

For any information or request please send an email to: [email protected]

Personal and Navigation Data

In accordance with the art. 13 of the GDPR we inform you about the methods, purposes and scope of communication and dissemination of your personal data and your rights.

1. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED BY THE HOLDER OF THE TREATMENT

In order to offer you the services provided by this website, the ISA-RC57 as Data Controller, must process some personal data necessary for the provision of the services.
This data may be implicitly provided by the tools you use to access and use the services or may be provided explicitly by you.
The ISA-RC57 website may process the following categories of personal data of users:
• technical navigation data relating to the IP address, the identification codes of the devices used by the user for the use of the site or services, the characteristics of the browser and access times;
• common identifying data provided by the user (eg name, surname, e-mail, telephone number, etc.) for the use of the products and services;
• If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

2. PURPOSE AND LEGAL BASIS OF TREATMENT

The data and cookies received by you will be processed by the ISA-RC57 website exclusively with procedures necessary to provide you the services requested and for the additional purposes for which you have given your consent.
Only with your express consent the data can be used for statistical analysis, market surveys, promotional activities via social media and sending commercial information (Purpose of direct marketing).

On the date you read this Notice, the ISA-RC57 website does not use profiling data to aggregate marketing profiles and does not appeal to advertising investors.
Any communications for market surveys or commercial information on products and promotional initiatives can be made by postal mailing and e-mail, exclusively for those subjects who have consented to receive such communications.
The legal bases of the purposes described above are the execution of your request as an interested party and the consents expressed by you.

3. DIFFUSION, COMMUNICATION AND SUBJECTS THAT ACCESS THE DATA

Your personal data will not be disclosed, but may be disclosed where necessary for the provision of the service to third parties (such as third party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies) appointed, if necessary, Data Processors of the ISA-RC57 website for technical or organizational tasks that are instrumental to the provision of services.
The updated list of Managers can always be requested from the Data Controller.
This is without prejudice to the right of communication to third parties if you have given your specific and optional consent.

4. TRANSFER OF DATA ABROAD

Your personal data will be processed by the ISA-RC57 website within the European Union.
If for technical and / or operational reasons it is necessary to make use of subjects located outside the European Union, or it is necessary to transfer some of the data collected to technical systems and services managed in the cloud and located outside the area of the European Union, the processing will be regulated in accordance with the provisions of Chapter V of the Regulation and authorized on the basis of specific EU decisions. All necessary precautions will therefore be taken to ensure the most complete protection of personal data by basing this transfer: a) on adequacy decisions of the third country recipients expressed by the European Commission; b) on appropriate guarantees expressed by the third party recipient pursuant to art. 46 of the Rules; c) on the adoption of binding corporate rules, so-called Corporate binding rules.

5. DURATION OF THE TREATMENT AND CONSERVATION OF PERSONAL DATA

The ISA-RC57 website according to the Art. 5.1 e) of the GDPR will process the data you provide for the entire duration of execution of the services requested and will keep them for the next 12 months for the purpose of completing the administrative activities, as well as for the time necessary to fulfill legal obligations.

6. RIGHTS OF THE INTERESTED PARTY

The ISA-RC57 website grants you the opportunity to exercise at any time the rights provided for by the art. 12 of the GDPR. In particular you have the right:
– to know if the Owner holds and / or processes personal data relating to you and to access it in full also obtaining a copy (Article 15 Right to access),
– the correction of incorrect personal data or the integration of incomplete personal data (Article 16 Right of rectification);
– the cancellation of personal data held by the Data Controller if one of the reasons provided for by the GDPR exists (Right to Delete, 17);
– to ask the Data Controller to limit the processing only to certain personal data, if there is one of the reasons provided for by the Rules (Article 18 Right to limit the processing);
– to request and receive all your personal data processed by the owner, in a structured format, commonly used and readable by automatic device or request transmission to another holder without impediments (Article 20, Right to Portability);
– to object in whole or in part to the processing of data for the purpose of sending advertising material and market research (so-called Consent) (Article 21 Right to object)
– to object in whole or in part to the processing of data in automatic or semi-automatic mode for profiling purposes (so-called Consent)

The exercise of these rights may be exercised by communication to the Data Controller / Data Protection Officer whose addresses are indicated in the appropriate section of this statement.
Furthermore, you always have the right to lodge a complaint with the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data, which can be contacted through the website https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/internet-telecoms/data-protection-online-privacy/index_en.htm

7. PRIVACY MANAGER

The ISA-RC57 website has identified and appointed, pursuant to art. 37 of the GDPR a Data Protection Officer and has an office for the management of requests concerning the privacy of its users and customers.
To exercise the rights granted to you, you can contact us by sending an email to: [email protected]

8. LAST UPDATE

This Privacy Notice is updated to 28/08/2019

Information on Cookies

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Cookies allow the temporary storage by the website of the information about your visits and visitors. The device used can be recognized by other websites through the same cookie. For every visit you can use different types of cookies.

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1. TYPES OF COOKIES

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2. ACTIVITY STRICTLY NECESSARY FOR THE FUNCTIONING

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3. PREFERENCES, OPTIMIZATION AND STATISTICS

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4. OTHER TYPES OF COOKIES OR THIRD-PARTY TOOLS THAT MIGHT MAKE USE

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If among the instruments mentioned below were present services operated by third parties, these may – in addition to what is specified and also the knowledge of the owner – making activity tracking User. For detailed information, please consult the privacy policy of the services listed.

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Users, depending on the settings chosen by the owner, can leave comments even anonymously. In the case of the Personal Data provided by the User will be the email, this could be used to send notifications of comments concerning the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their comments.
In the case in which is installed a service of comments provided by third parties, it is possible that, even in the case where the Users do not use the service of comment, the same collect traffic data about the pages in which the service is installed comment.

Optimization and traffic distribution

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The Personal Data processed depend on the characteristics and mode of implementation of these services, which by their nature filter communications between this application and the browser user.
Given the distributed nature of this system, it is difficult to determine the places where the contents are transferred, which may contain Personal Information User.

Statistics

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Google Analytics (Google)

Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google uses Personal Information collected for the purpose of evaluating the use of this application, compile reports and share them with other services developed by Google.
Google may use this personal information to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Personal data collected: Cookie and data usage.

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Personal data collected: Name, Email, Website.

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If this happens, this application can access some data stored by third party service used for recording or identification (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).

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Personal data collected: Name, Email.

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Not with standing the above, the Holder informs that the User may use Your Online Choices. Through this service you can manage preferences tracking of most of advertising. The owner, therefore, recommends that users use this resource in addition to the information provided in this document.

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    • 2020 1st Prize - Henry Moncrieff Zabaleta
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    • 2018 1st Prize - Camilo Leon-Quijano
      Koumba looks at the horizon from the balcony of her apartment. In the background, we see the social housing buildings of Sarcelles, France... (read more)

    • 2016 1st Prize - Apgraham Kitza
      At first glance, this image may look similar to those that appear beside ‘donate here’ instructions in magazine ads and non-governmental organization (NGO) websites... (read more)

    • 2014 1st Prize - Kristin Miller
      Three men stand on a sidewalk in San Francisco. They stand equidistant from each other, not even their shadows touching. In any event, they are more engrossed in the smartphones they hold than in anything going on around them...(read more)

    • 2012 1st Prize - Eryn Snyder
      Four to six times a day, Bedik women haul water from a nearby well back to their community. Their feet have cut trails into the red earth and worn smooth the rocks along the paths up to their mountain villages... (read more)

    • 2010 1st Prize - Emilie Dubois
      I swung off the curb and onto the M4 bus relieved to finally step out of the thick, simmering street air of a New York City late summer afternoon... (read more)

    • 2008 1st Prize - Haruna Miyagawa Fukui
      This photograph was taken on a sunny spring weekend at the Japanese Friendship Garden in San Diego, California. The photographer is a graduate student from Japan... (read more)

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    Guidance on Ethics in Visual Research


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    esearch ethics are often particularly nuanced and situated for visual sociological research and its dissemination. RC57 adheres to the ISA’s Code of Ethics and is committed to the ongoing development of high ethical standards concerning visual research and the dissemination of visual research results.

    RC57 engages in ongoing discussions on various ethical dilemmas concerning visual research (including presentations and publications) across different cultural settings and social contexts. For examples of these discussions see the abstracts from relevant RC57 sessions at XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology.

    In addition to the ISA’s Code of Ethics the following publication is a useful starting point when research topics, methods, data, analysis and dissemination etc., involve visual materials/processes:

    Paperdemas D. and the International Visual Sociology Association (2009), “IVSA Code of Research Ethics and Guidelines,” Visual Studies, 24(3), pp. 250-57.

    Advice for Presenting Visual Research

    When preparing to present visual research at conferences, lectures, seminars and/or other forms of public engagement, consider the following:

    • Is each image essential?
    • Do I have permission (verbal or written as appropriate) to use each of the images?
    • Have I attributed each image appropriately?
    • To what extent might each image be considered sensitive?
    • Is a ‘trigger warning’ appropriate?
    Useful Resources

    The broad field of visual research offers a wealth of ethics resources. The following items are simply starting points and will not suit every ethical question/dilemma/context. Let us know of other resources to include.

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      RC57 Mission Statement


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      isual Sociology is a diverse field of study which gathers sociologists involved in visual studies and studies of the visual. As a relatively new discipline and methodology within the Sociology, Visual Sociology attracts growing numbers of scholars and students who are using visual methods, and/or interested in the production, use and dissemination of visual knowledge.

      The overall goal of the research committee is to bridge discussions on theoretical and practical aspects of the analysis of visual data. The research committee provides the opportunity to share, exchange and develop ideas which are relevant to Visual Sociology in the global arena. The focus of the research committee is on applying visual methods in sociology at large, and developing theoretical perspectives as well as specific sociological methods, such as web-site analysis, photo-elicitation interviews, sociological video and photo production and analysis.

      With this in mind, the Committee and its membership has 3 objectives:

      • To generate further discussions concerning the collection of visual data in the field (in archives, photo albums, media, websites etc.) as well as the production of visual materials by the researcher (photography and documentaries) with an emphasis on
        methods of analysis of these data.
      • To work is the contemporary and historical analysis of the socio-cultural locus of the visual. The key concern here is how the visual is produced, used and disseminated, and how it intersects with the verbal and other means of communication and
        sensual experiences.
      • Lastly, it is our goal to put to debate broader theoretical issues of the Sociology of the visual sphere and discuss the applicability of various sociological theories in the analysis of the visual data.
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      isual Sociology RC57 is an international, inter/trans disciplinary community of academics, practitioners and professionals with a shared interested in the visual as a way to unpack and frame our experience of the world. We live in a visual age and so it is right that we work with images and think about visual artefacts, building global partnerships and scholarly links to collaboratively see the world, sociologically. We have an elected board which is revised every four years, with one member not being able to serve for more than two-terms.

      With members from the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas, specialising in a range of disciplines, including (but not limited to) Sociology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Visual Culture, Photography, Media and Communication, Criminology, Geography, Pedagogy, Politics and more, we are well represented, academically and globally.

      Through our workshops, conferences and publications, we encourage debate, analysis and application of Visual Sociology, both in the interest of scholarly and methodological advancement as well as for practical application that contribute to a better world. In particular, we host free, pre-Forum and pre Congress workshops wherever the ISA participates globally. The workshops are an important facet of what we do, and we are one of only a handful of groups (TG/WG or RC) who offer free, pre-forum activities. In an effort to democratise knowledge and make it accessible to all, the Pre-forum/Congress workshops reflect the ethos and values of our group to share ideas, spaces and understanding with local partners, academics and communities, to better acquaint ourselves with the spaces outside our immediate locality and to collaboratively co-create knowledge and build
      relationships.

      Additionally, we also pride ourselves on our very own, standalone event, the Visual Workshop. A biannual event that moves between a Board member’s host institution, the Visual Workshop is our own international, PGR/ECR focused forum. These workshops offer a space to build collegiate relationships, learn and exchange ideas, whilst emphasising PGR/ECR development, supported by key thinkers and established academics and
      practitioners in the field.

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      he Visual Sociology Research Committee (RC57) is the 57 th Research Committee within the International Sociological Association (ISA), having achieved RC status in 2018, 10 years after its initial inception. Originating as an ad-hoc group of graduate students who first met at an International Visual
      Sociological Association (IVSA) summer school in 2006, the Visual Sociology Thematic Group (TG05) was formally established one year later in 2007 by Dennis Zuev and Regev Nathansohn, holding its first sessions at the ISA forum, Barcelona in 2007 and was officially approved by the ISA in 2009. The group was upgraded to a working group (WG03) in 2013 and again, finally to a full Research Committee (RC57) in 2017, having exceeded the 100 members threshold. At present, the RC 57 is only one of two official bodies engaging with and foregrounding Visual Sociology as a disciplinary field.

      In addition to our collegiate and scholarly work, we also offer a photography prize, the Rachel Tanur Prize in Visual Sociology (in collaboration with the SSRC, USA and the Mark Family Trust). The prize recognizes students in the social sciences who incorporate visual analysis in their work. It is named for Rachel Dorothy Tanur (1958–2002), an urban planner and lawyer who cared deeply about people and their lives and was an acute observer of living conditions and human relationships.

      The award is also biannual and is administered by SSRC in collaboration with ISA RC57 who provide jury members for the prize. The award is given at the ISA Forum/Congress and in addition to a financial award and publication, the winner is given honorary membership of the RC57 board and mentoring for two years by members of RC57, which we are delighted to participate in and consider it an honor to co-host.

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