[ecrea] CfP: De-Westernizing Visual Culture: Perspectives from the Global South

*                                De-Westernizing Visual Culture: 
Perspectives from the Global South*
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_Call for Submissions_

This edited volume of the renowned NOMOS publishing house (book series 
“intercultural and transcultural communication”) invites scholars from a 
broad range of disciplines to submit manuscripts on the theme of 
“De-Westernizing Visual Culture: Perspectives from the Global South”.

Visual Culture here refers for example to imagery, GIFs, emoticons, 
pictures and other visual means in an online or offline environment, 
non-inclusive of the audiovisual content and moving images. Despite the 
increasing prominence of visual culture in general, academic studies 
focused on visual culture from a de-Westernization perspective in the 
Global South are scarce. Recent discussions focused e.g. on plurality of 
emoticons such as hijabs, or emoticons with different facial color. 
Despite such discussions in the public sphere, there is a lack of 
trans-cultural, cross-cultural studies looking at the differences in 
visual culture. This call for submissions therefore hopes to fill this 
research desiderate.

Arguably, a lack of visual culture research in the Global South is 
attributed to the prevalent Western tradition in communication research. 
This volume serves to overcome the dominance of Western approaches in 
visual culture research. Following these considerations, scholars are 
invited to submit their original manuscripts that address the following 
topics, among others:

-Comparative studies of visual culture, including at least one country 
from the Global South as comparative country;

-Content or discourse analysis of journalistic visual content, 
advertisements, PR and political communication visual content and social 
web visual content from the Global South and/or from a de-Westernization 
perspective;

-Research on use of emoticons in the Global South and/or from a 
de-Westernization perspective;

-Nonverbal communication addressing the Global South;

-Theory development or contrasting theory streams explaining Visual Culture;

-Other topics (please enquire with the editors in advance).

Theoretical as well as qualitative and quantitative approaches 
investigating visual culture are welcome. The work should explicitly 
mention how a de-Westernization approach will contribute to a more 
profound discussion of visual culture. Moreover, different disciplinary 
approaches can be pursued. Submissions must not have been previously 
published nor be under consideration by another publication. An extended 
abstract (up to 1000 words) or a complete paper at the first stage of 
the reviewing process will be accepted. All the submissions must be 
received by *July 31, 2018*. If the extended abstract is accepted, the 
complete manuscript must be received by *November 30, 2018*. Manuscripts 
should be prepared in accordance with the APA publication manual (6th 
edition) and should have a length of 22,000 to 33,000 characters with 
spaces (about 3300 to 5000 words) including tables and references. All 
manuscripts will be peer reviewed by the editors, and the authors will 
be notified of the final acceptance/rejection decision.

Please direct questions and submissions to book editors

·Thomas Herdin (Assoc.Prof) at (thomas.herdin /at/ sbg.ac.at) 
<mailto:(thomas.herdin /at/ sbg.ac.at)>and

·Maria Faust (M.A.) at _maria.faust@uni-leipzig.de_. and

·Guo-Ming Chen (Prof.) at (gmchen /at/ uri.edu) <mailto:(gmchen /at/ uri.edu)>


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