The Visual Communication section of the proceedings contains the following 8 selected papers: "Affect and Emotion: Eliciting Compassionate Response via Facial Affect in Visual Images" (Courtney Bennett); "A Study of the Persuasiveness of Animation When Used as Forensic Demonstrative Evidence" (Benjamin Allyn Meyer); "Southern Mentalities, Photographic Reflections in Black and White: The 1915-1960 Mississippi Pictures of O.N. Pruitt" (Berkley Hudson); "If Looks Could Kill: The Ethics of Digital Manipulation of Fashion Models and Attitudes of Readers" (Shiela Reaves, Jacqueline Bush Hitchon, Sung-Yeon Park, and Gi Woong Yun); "Establishing a Photojournalism Historiography: An Historiographical Analysis of the Developmental Approach" (Timothy Roy Gleason); "Normative Conflict in the Newsroom: The Case of Digital Photo Manipulation" (Wilson Lowrey); "A Longitudinal Analysis of Network News Editing Strategies from 1969 through 1997" (Richard J. Schaefer); and "Digitally Altered News Photographs: How Much Manipulation Will the Public Tolerate before Credibility Is Lost?" (Joseph D. Gosen and Jennifer Greer). (RS)