[ecrea] New title announcement: The Poster

> The Poster
>
> Aims and Scope
> The poster-maker, the pamphleteer and the tagger aim to sway the
> popular heart and mind through visual public interventions. As new
> technologies rise; turning the public sphere into a transparent,
> ubiquitous communications medium and a global marketplace; is the
> privileged status of the poster doomed or are we seeing it transformed as
> part of a new wave of visual rhetoric?  When the environment starts
> to become responsive to our very presence and aware of our individual
> nature what is the role of the 'traditional poster' delivering a
> classical rhetorical message? This journal aims to lead the
> debate.
>
> The Poster is a forum for the study of visual rhetoric in the
> public sphere; a place to discuss how and why visual messages are thrust
> into the world and the media forms used to do so. This peer-reviewed
> journal stands as a vehicle for the ideas of media theorists; scholars of
> Cultural Studies and Cultural Materialism; for social psychologists of
> visual communication, for architects and designers of wayfinding schemes;
> for philosophers of Aesthetics and Politics, Society and Linguistics; for
> social scientists, anthropologists and ethnographers; for political
> campaigners and artist activists; for communications researchers and
> visual communications practitioners.
>
> The Poster is Intellect’s third landscape format Visual Arts
> journal and it includes numerous images and colour plates which lend the
> subject matter vibrancy and impact. The inaugural issue contains articles
> including Clive Dilnot’s ‘Being prescient concerning Obama, or notes on
> the politics of configuration’ and Mofizur Rhaman’s ‘Body of the other:
> Constructing gender identity in anti-acid violence campaign materials in
> Bangladesh. The journal also includes reviews of recent publications and
> exhibitions. 
>
> Issue 1.1 now available to download for FREE from our website:
> http://bit.ly/theposter
>
> For subscription information visit:
> http://bit.ly/thepostersubs
>
> Title info
> ISSN 20403704 | 2 issues per volume 
>
> Editors
> Simon Downs:
> (s.t.downs /at/ lboro.ac.uk)
> Malcolm Barnard:
> (m.barnard /at/ lboro.ac.uk)
> Mel Jordan: (m.jordan /at/ lboro.ac.uk)
> Jaime Gomez:
> (jaime.gomez /at/ cuaad.udg.mx)
> Leong Chan: (l.chan /at/ unsw.edu.au)
> Helena Barbosa: (helenab /at/ ua.pt)
> Robert Harland:
> (r.g.harland /at/ lboro.ac.uk)
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