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Contemporary humanities are broadened with new themes related to the role and influence of visualization on everyday human life, its functioning in all areas of life, as well as the consequences of the involvement of broadly understood visualization in contemporary processes of knowledge production. It is difficult to preserve neutral or indifferent attitudes towards these phenomena, when modern images are ubiquitous and no longer serve only to complement verbal communication, but often directly eliminate and replace it, being more accessible and understandable for a large part of society. These visual messages become a new force in the processes of interpersonal communication, but also in a wider dimension – intercultural and global communication. They are the basic elements in situations of mediated communication, though difficult in terms of multidimensional social, cultural, ethnic, or religious diversity. They are the categories of systems and processes of communicating knowledge about oneself and about the surrounding reality, often elementary, in order to obtain a real consensus and agreement. This situation is embroiled in a number of analytical, interpretative, and even bureaucratic contexts (the issue of documentation and archiving of research materials, for instance) that lead to the formulation of many questions about the nature, strategy, and validity of methodological solutions for exploring visual communication in an intercultural perspective, especially concerning contemporary cities in various countries in Europe and in Africa. Research methodologies in this subject area are currently being developed – this is an area of particular scientific, cognitive, and methodological importance; it is definitely worth considering both reflection and research in order to engineer solutions to get to know it better. Hence the interest of humanists in the subject of visuality: visualization and visual communication are a kind of challenge to a traditional theoretical-empirical approach in these areas.
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The first monograph published within project "Technologies of Imaging in Communication, Art and Social Sciences" (TICASS), edited by Aleksandra Lukaszewicz Alcaraz and Michael Fleming, presents the early results of an ongoing collaborative research project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020. The book advances understanding of the functioning of visual space in different places and cultures and indicates how different visual literacies shape communication within and between communities. Contributors to this volume work in a range of disciplines in the social sciences, in the humanities, as well as in art and business. The book should be of interest to scholars working on visual culture, aesthetics, art., communication, education, and interculture studies, as it makes a valuable contribution to the historical and cultural understanding of visual communication.
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2020
The monograph "Urban Visuality, Mobility, Information and Technology of Images" focuses on contemporary problems of the architectural and urbanist environment from the point of view of social environmental psychology and theory. Authors of the subsequent chapter come from various countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and Kenya) and together they present multiple evidences for the need of transcultural visual literacy in symbolic interactions in the urban sphere. The multidimensional presentation of urban visual and technological environment found in the book is certainly a valuable scientific publication within social and cultural sciences, inspiring the readers sensibility for the quality of visual solutions in architectural spaces for deep research in contemporary urban visual culture.
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This article explores and discusses a wide variety of resources and research techniques to visually approach and/or communicate key aspects of mediated and unmediated urban contexts. Cities and city life indeed can be investigated in unique ways through the observation of behavior in public space and by critically scrutinizing the visible features of urban spaces as social and cultural expressions of past and present intentions. Distinct visual methods—exploratory, systematic, or participatory in nature—may help bring about the actual, changing, and often hybrid experience and appearance of urban areas and their inhabitants. Visual approaches to investigating the communicative dimensions of the city also comprise innovative uses of visual materials in the reporting phase through synergetic combinations of images and other expressive features.
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Photographic- visual communication research is methods both written and verbal has long dominated the communication research; a new range of non-textual strategies is gradually emerging as an alternative and highly versatile way of knowing. Distinctively, participatory visual communications, like drawing, photography, and video, hold the aesthetics of painting which directly impact on reality of world lives, while at the other hand empowering the researchers and capturing real world expressions. Through the process of visual conceptualization, and the reflective photographic communication of the images in the context of their construction, where I tried to out the subject are given an expressive channel to voice their inner stories of human communities, as well as active empowering stake in the research study, because of its playful nature and its lack of interdependence on linguistic proficiency, this research method is especially suitable for work with children and youth across a variety of cultural contexts. There are limited resources available for art researchers wishing to implement a photography curriculum that focus on social integrity. Since the camera is a highly effective communicative tool, photographic communication should be encouraged to communities their understanding and how to make better society through visual images. This research highlights whether it takes photography and its ability to change the visual conception, in which people view the world. The visual communication of photography research is based on contemporary and historical artists, organizations that have used photography to express social Humanities communication. The aim of this researches his to promote photography to administrators, supporters, local communities, and the students.
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Technologies of Imaging in Urban Communication - Report 2 from Kenya (Kilifi)
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In the face of the multiplication of images in all spheres of human life, it is necessary to discuss the need to develop visual education, the purpose of which is to prepare people to read visual messages in the conditions of a changing culture. For the needs of the research challenge, the source of which was the global crisis caused by the Covid 19 pandemic, the subject of scientific interest was defined, which are the conditions for reading covid 19 visual messages located in public urban spaces. The article presents a fragment of a wider research. Due to the carrier of the visual message used, the analysis was based on photos presenting Covid 19 visual messages, obtained from cities in New Zealand, China and Kenya. It has been adopted that the critical theory and visual culture focused on the message can mutually support each other with the traditions of their discourses in the descriptions of the analyzed phenomena. For the purposes of the research, the theory of visual communic...
Visual Communication, 2021
This comparative review seeks to explore how international, innovative, multimodal and representative the scholarship published in two visual communication journals, Visual Communication (VC) and Visual Communication Quarterly (VCQ), is over a 25-year period (from VCQ’s founding in 1994 and from VC’s founding in 2002 through 2019). Through examining all 544 research articles published in these journals over this timeframe, an understanding can be achieved regarding which countries and geographic regions have received attention, the methods and means used to advance the authors’ arguments, the visuals under consideration and the authors’ focus and aims, which sometimes overlap with the visuals under consideration and are sometimes distinct from them. The results inform areas of potential future exploration, focus and attention for these two journals but are grounded in an understanding that systemic conditions also influence the types and designs of research that can be published and recognized.