Visual Communication
The journal's definition of the visual is broad and includes: Visual Communication is interdisciplinary bringing together articles from a range of subjects, including: Members of the Visual Communication Studies division of the ICA can subscribe to the journal with a 50% discount. Interested members should email SAGE Customer Services at subscriptions@sagepub.co.uk The worthiness and necessity of these [essays] sharply remind us how rare it is for a mainstream academic journal to do its duty for the future by reaching beyond the complacencies and hysteria of the present." Times Higher Education Supplement "Visual Communication offers a high-quality forum of publication for articles on the crucial visual dimension of language and communication. I am sure that for scholars and students in many disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, this new journal will be an indispensable resource for learning, teaching and research." Teun van Dijk Electronic Access: Visual Communication is available to browse online.
Visual Communication provides an international forum for the growing body of work in numerous interrelated disciplines.
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Visual Communication frames the study of the visual as a fundamental aspect of communication in order to understand the place of the visual in a broader social and cultural context. The journal addresses the role of the visual in relation to other semiotic resources, to communication in general, and to questions of meaning. The journal invites contributions on the nature of contemporary, historical, and future semiotic landscapes - through theory, empirical analysis, practice, and/or critique.
Visual Communication will publish four kinds of papers:
(1) Research papers which advance theory, method, and empirical analysis in one or more of the following areas (5000-7000 words):
- The structures and histories of the semiotic resources and technologies of visual communication, and their relation to other modes of communication.
- The use of these resources and technologies in visual and multimodal genres, texts, communicative events, artefacts, and performances, including but not restricted to, education, media, health, science, organizations, and personal contexts.
(2) Reflective papers by practitioners of visual communication which document current and emerging practices and trends in all areas of visual communication, whether from a critical perspective or with a view to exploring the expansion of the resources of visual communication and their uses (maximum 4000 words)
(3) Visual essays in any of the above areas which make their argument predominantly through visual communication (maximally 12 pages).
(4) Presentations of critical reviews of freely-available tools for analyzing, creating, or manipulating data/examples of visual communication (maximum 4000 words).
All contributions should engage closely with examples of visual communication, and/or examples of the visual relation to other semiotic modes.
All contributions should be of interest to a broad multidisciplinary readership in the humanities, social sciences and design professions, and written in a style that is accessible to this readership.
| Louise Ravelli | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Janina Wildfeuer | University of Groningen, the Netherlands |
| Alexandra Crosby | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Jana Pflaeging | University of Salzburg, Austria |
| Søren Vigild Poulsen | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| Dušan Stamenkovic | Södertörn University Sweden |
| Michele Zappavigna | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Dušan Stamenkovic | Södertörn University Sweden |
| Jeff Bezemer | University College London, UK |
| Jay David Bolter | Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
| Victor Burgin | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Carey Jewitt | University College London, UK |
| Teal Triggs | Royal College of Art, UK |
| Theo Van Leeuwen | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Elisabetta Adami | University of Leeds, UK |
| Giorgia Aiello | University of Milan, Italy |
| Paola Antonelli | Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| John A. Bateman | University of Bremen, Germany |
| Philip Bell | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Anders Björkvall | Örebro University, Sweden |
| Andrew Blauvelt | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA |
| Morten Boeriis | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| Mary Bucholtz | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard | University of Birmingham , UK |
| Lilie Chouliaraki | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Malcolm Collier | San Francisco State University, USA |
| Kate Cowan | University College London, UK |
| Anne Cranny-Francis | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Sean Cubitt | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Clive Dilnot | New School University, USA |
| Hanno Ehses | Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Elisabeth El Refaie | Cardiff University, UK |
| Charles Forceville | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Ellen Fricke | Technical University Chemnitz, Germany |
| David Graddol | The Open University, UK |
| Diane Gromala | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Christian Heath | King's College London, UK |
| Rick Iedema | King's College London, UK |
| Peter Jackson | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Adam Jaworski | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Jo Anne Kleifgen | Columbia University, USA |
| Juliette Kristensen | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Gunhild Kvåle | University of Agder, Norway |
| Michelle M. Lazar | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Per Ledin | Södertörn University, Sweden |
| Wendy Lee Bowcher | Sun Yat-sen University, China |
| Jay Lemke | City University New York, USA |
| Victor Lim Fei | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Lorenzo Logi | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| David Machin | Zhejiang University, China |
| John Maeda | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Saki Mafundikwa | Zimbabwe Institute of Digital Arts, Zimbabwe |
| Lynn Mario de Souza | University of Sao Paolo, Brazil |
| Jim Martin | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Radan Martinec | Ikona Research and Consulting, USA |
| Katherine McCoy | High Ground Tools and Methods for Design, Buena Vista Colorado, USA |
| Robert McMurtrie | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Ulrike Hanna Meinhof | University of Southampton, UK |
| Lorenza Mondada | University of Basel, Switzerland |
| Marion G. Müller | University of Trier, Germany |
| Sigrid Norris | Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
| Kay O’Halloran | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Luc Pauwels | University of Antwerp, Belgium |
| Sarah Pink | RMIT University, Australia |
| Andrew Ross | University of Canberra, Australia |
| Zoe Sadokierski | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Ahn Sang-Soo | Hongik University, South Korea |
| Kim Sawchuk | Concordia University, Canada |
| Dona Schwartz | University of Calgary, Canada |
| Hartmut Stöckl | University of Salzburg, Austria |
| Crispin Thurlow | University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Len Unsworth | Australian Catholic University, Australia |
| Francisco Veloso | Federal University of Acre, Brazil |
| Eija Ventola | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Jill Walker Rettberg | University of Bergen, Norway |
| Liz Wells | University of Plymouth, UK |
| Tore West | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Judith Williamson | University for the Creative Arts, UK |
| Michael Worthington | California Institute of the Arts, USA |
| Xiaoqin Wu | Southwest University, China |
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