Visual Communication Quarterly

CALL FOR PORTFOLIO ENTRIES: VCQ seeks visual portfolio essays which can range in disciplines and serve to advance our knowledge of visual communication through practice-led visual work. More here: tandfonline.com/action/authorS…

We are excited to welcome three new associate editors joining the editorial team in 2026: Drs. Bimbisar Irom, Alex Scott, and David Staton. They join existing editors Drs. Julianna Kirshner, Tara Mortensen, Associate Professor Ross Taylor, and EIC Russell Chun. Congratulations!

🤖👀 Our Division is pleased to be co-sponsoring this conference, on “Generative Images - Generative Imageries: Challenges of Visual Communication (Research) in the Age of AI,” that is being convened by Division member @geise_stephanie.

Delighted to be working with fab colleagues on this and looking forward to seeing the ideas colleagues have on this topic. 😃 @aejmcviscom @ICAVisComm @AdmsCentre @ivlaorg

✍️ Guest editors for this issue are @UIOWA_SJMC Visual Media Lab faculty members: @SangJungKim2, Alex Scott and @Blingblingzhang

📆 Key dates are as follows: • Abstract submission deadline: March 5, 2024 • Notification on submitted abstracts: March 15, 2024 • Full manuscript submission deadline: May 1, 2024 🔗 For full details, please visit: bit.ly/VCQspecialissu…

🤔 What theoretical and interpretive frameworks, technologies, and practices can identify, categorize, and preserve images’ value? What precisely is worth preserving? If you’re asking these questions, submit to @VisCommQ's forthcoming special issue "The State of Visual Evidence."

📷📕✍️ It also includes a portfolio—B8: Photographing the Legacies of Colonialism—by @OlliHellmann and a book review of "Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual" by @Cenevox. 🔗 Check it out here: tandfonline.com/action/showAxa… @juspar @UMinnPress

2️⃣ Representations of Obesity and Covid-19 in Leading Stock Photography Websites (By Dimitrinka Atanasova) 3️⃣ Gateway Visuals: Strategies of Climate Photographers in the Digital Age (By Jonas Harvard and Mats Hyvönen)

The online-first version of our latest VCQ issue is now available and includes the following research (a 🧵): 1️⃣ Reading Sense8: Visual Interchangeability and Queer Possibility in a ‘Post-Racial’ World (By @annaeliselin)

🏆 And here are our top 10 research outputs of all time by Altmetric scores. 🔗 Have a browse of them at the following link: altmetric.com/explorer/repor…

Lovely to see our journal is on steady upward trend in terms of the demand for its articles. Thanks to all our contributors, reviewers, and editors (Larry Mullen, @Cenevox, @YungSooKim2, @JKirschnerSC, and @russellchun) for your support of #viscomm research and creative activity.

We invite nominations for books you think should be reviewed and for scholars who are interested in reviewing books on our list. Reach out to Book Reviews Editor David Staton (@David_M_Staton) with recommendations.

Our book reviews cover a diverse range of visual phenomena and topics, from photography and painting to visual cognition and culture. Browse them to stay up to date on our field’s latest developments and to learn from our field’s leading thinkers.

2021 saw a 7.3 percent increase in the number of our Journal's full-text downloads compared to the previous year. ⬆️📈👀 View more stats at tandfonline.com/action/journal…

Campaigning on Facebook in the UK takes on a tone all of its own. @UFamulari has research in @viscommq that looks at how images were used in the 2019 elections. mediaschool.indiana.edu/news-events/ne…

The last issue of VCQ in 2021 is now live and features international scholarship from the UK, Canada, and Africa, as well as a visually arresting and timely portfolio from Thorne Anderson on ‘Passing Through Afghanistan’. Browse the latest content here: tandfonline.com/toc/hvcq20/28/…

How do scholars define visual communication? What methods do they use to explore this topic? My latest @qutdmrc research tries to find out by analysing all the research published from 1994-2019 in @VisCommQ and @Sage_VCJ. 👀📷📄 @ICAVisComm @aejmcviscom journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Can definitely recommend this! It's hosted by some fantastic and very generous folks! @ICAVisComm @aejmcviscom @VisCommQ

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