[Air-L] Call for Papers - Visual, digital and media culture: Images among generations - vista - visual culture journal

[Inês Amaral]

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*CALL FOR PAPERS - vista - visual culture journal*

*“Visual, digital and media culture: Images among generations”*

Social context determined by the culture of media convergence, together
with the proliferation of digital devices connected to the Internet and
their penetration among citizens, has given relevance, more than ever, to
the media and visual culture. Digital media and images have conducted
visual field towards the study of consumer´s practices and producer´s
image, in accordance with the social aspects and the cultural contexts that
characterize them.

To the multidisciplinary approach of media and digital literacy,
intergenerational issue is added as the starting point of this issue, which
seeks to delve into the fact that the media experience occurs in
differentiated conditions, characterized by different cultural (media and
digital) competences between generations: analogical and digital citizens,
emigrants and digital natives. From the family portraits to the selfies of
our smartphones, from soap opera and TV series to social networks. Images
produced and consumed get increased from a diversity of experiences and
memories, from a multiplicity of lifestyles and media uses, which is worth
to be rethought from the idea of "generations".

Which are the visual environments of socialization for the different
generations? What influences do they exercise in their daily lives, in
their experience, and in their memory? What is the role of visual and media
literacy in the process of understanding the relationship between different
generations and the different media? How visual culture contributes to the
pedagogical processes? Does the generational perspective contribute for the
understanding of the image transformation and impact in contemporaneity? Is
the visual culture an approaching element among generations? Which are the
more suited proposals and theoretical reflections in the current context?
Is the visual culture an inspiring element to favor participative
methodologies in this field?  Can digital age and its visual culture
favor generational
barriers? Does the digital visual culture assume an intergenerational
perspective?

*vista - visual culture journal *is a peer-reviewed journal and operates
under a double-blind review process. Each submitted work will be sent to
two reviewers previously invited to evaluate it, in accordance with the
academic quality, originality and relevance for the objectives and scope of
the issue of this edition of the journal. Articles can be submitted in
English, Portuguese, Spanish and French to the e-mails of the invited
editors: apepanda at gmail.com; britesmariajose at gmail.com;inesamaral at gmail.com.
Guidelines for authors can be found here.

*Invited editors*: Ana Pérez-Escoda (UNIR/Universidad Nebrija), Maria José
Brites (Lusófona University of Porto/CICANT) and Inês Amaral (University of
Coimbra)

*Deadlines*
Submission: 15 March 2019
Notification: 29 April 2019
Date of publication: 31 July 2019


The full call for papers and author guidelines:
http://vista.sopcom.pt/pag/en#call