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Visual Communication

Visual Communication


eISSN: 17413214 | ISSN: 14703572 | Current volume: 23 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly



Visual Communication provides an international forum for the growing body of work in numerous interrelated disciplines.

The journal's definition of the visual is broad and includes:

  • still and moving images
  • graphic design and typography
  • visual phenomena such as fashion, professional vision, posture and interaction
  • the built and landscaped environment
  • the role of the visual in relation to language, music, sound and action

Visual Communication is interdisciplinary bringing together articles from a range of subjects, including:

  • anthropology
  • communication studies
  • human and cultural geography
  • multimodal studies and semiotics
  • media and cultural studies
  • sociology
  • disciplines dealing with history, theory and practice of visual design.

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.

Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/VCJ

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.

Chief Editors
Louise Ravelli University of New South Wales, Australia
Janina Wildfeuer University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Editors
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
Review Editor
Dušan Stamenkovic Södertörn University Sweden
Honorary Board
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
Advisory Editorial Board
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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