[ecrea] Call for Papers for a special issue of tripleC on the general topic of Critical Visual Theory

Call for Papers for a special issue of tripleC
(http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/index) on the general topic of

Critical Visual Theory

Detailed Information/CfP:
http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/CfP_VisualCommunication.pdf

Edited by Peter Ludes, Mass Communication, Jacobs University Bremen, 
Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Media Studies, Hamburg University, and Winfried 
Nöth, Cognitive Semiotics, São Paulo Catholic University.

The overall task of this special issue is to combine critical insights 
into current economic, technical, political, cultural, and ecological 
dimensions of transnational and global visual communication. The papers 
to be included in this issue should make use of critical theories to 
advance a better understanding of visual information technologies in 
general and of strategies of veiling financial, military, economic, 
religious interests in particular. A special focus will be on current 
forms of surveillance of public and private life.

The editors invite contributions to topics such as:

Visual humanities and social sciences: concepts, methods, and theories
Visual data and semiotics: networks and analyses
Visual hegemonies: image- and profit-making
Veiling: Key Invisibles
Visual culture zones: Africa, Arabic countries, China, Europe, India, 
Japan, Latin and North America

Preliminary time schedule

* May 1, 2013: Abstract submission, via email to 
(p.ludes /at/ jacobs-university.de), (kathrin.fahlenbrach /at/ uni-hamburg.de), and 
(noeth /at/ uni-kassel.de) .
* June 15, 2013: Feedback to authors about acceptance or rejection of 
abstract
* September 15, 2013: Submission of full papers to the editors via 
http://www.triple-c.at via the electronic submission 
system:http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions 
.
* Guidelines for formatting and style: 
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
http://www.triple-c.at/files/journals/1/tripleC_template_2012.dot

tripleC - Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information 
Society is a journal that is specialising in publishing articles that 
focus on critical studies of media, communication and digital media in 
the context of the information society. It is indexed in Scopus and 
Communication & Mass Media Complete.

Kind regards

Peter
Dr. Peter Ludes, Ph.D. (USA)
Professor of Mass Communication
Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH
P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany
Phone: +49-421-200 3476, Fax: +49-421-2003303
https://www.jacobs-university.de/directory/pludes
http://www.keyvisuals.org
https://www.jacobs-university.de/iss-program






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