scholarly journals Smartphone-based visual normativity: Approaches from digital anthropology and communication studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 205943642110363
Author(s):  
Daniel Miller ◽  
Xinyuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue

In this special issue, we would like to take this opportunity to demonstrate the value and strength of a conversation between digital anthropology and communication studies around the topic of visual communication and the use of the smartphone.

Special issue on visual communication in the ubiquitous era

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 393-396
Author(s):  
Chang Wen Chen ◽  
Mohammed Ghanbari ◽  
King Ngi Ngan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Ageing in a network society: An Introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Hannah Grist ◽  
Liliana Vale-Costa
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Older Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Shared Understandings ◽  
Networked Society

This special issue aims to explore the role of ICTs in encouraging the development of networked older adults. Specifically, the following papers give a noteworthy contribution to the challenges posed by an increasingly ageing and networked society. This special issue is edited by colleagues whose disciplines are not naturally symbiotic – one from Information and Communication studies and the other from Ageing studies. As such, this special issue posed an interesting set of challenges for the editors as they explored their shared understandings of what it means to grow old or be old in a network society. The editors would therefore like to thank the authors for their receptiveness to ageing studies theory and for challenging their own assumptions about what it means to be old. This special issue acts, in some ways, as a stepping stone or a bridge between more information technological based notions of what it is to grow older and cultural gerontological constructions of older age.

scholarly journals Protest communication ecologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Mercea
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Growth Area ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Media And Communication

The flurry of protests since the turn of the decade has sustained a growth area in the social sciences. The diversity of approaches to the various facets and concerns raised by the collective action of aggrieved groups the world over impresses through multidisciplinarity and the wealth of insights it has generated. This introduction to a special issue of the international journal Information, Communication and Society is an invitation to recover conceptual instruments—such as the ecological trope—that have fallen out of fashion in media and communication studies. We account for their fall from grace and explicate the rationale for seeking to reinsert them into the empirical terrain of interlocking media, communication practices and protest which we aim to both capture with theory and adopt as a starting point for further analytical innovation.

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF THE SYMBOLED VISUAL ELEMENTS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PROCESS IN TERMS OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (50) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Virus Family ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Criticism And Interpretation ◽  
Visual Communication Design ◽  
Communication Design ◽  
Visual Elements

Covid-19, a type of the corona virus family, spread from Wuhan, China to the whole world in December 2019 and turned into a pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic, which threatens the whole world, has caused negative situations in the health, education, industry and many other areas of the countries. Since there is no medicine or vaccine to cure this disease (pandemic) yet, experts in the business focus on drug and vaccine development studies, while country governments are making an intense effort to slow down and eliminate its spread. All kinds of platforms and alternatives should be used effectively in the fight against Covid-19. Visual media studies constitute the most important pillar of the struggle for this purpose. It is of great importance to create awareness in people with communication studies prepared in the fight against the disease. In today's intense information abundance and pollution, it is not easy to get the necessary attention from a large part of the society. It is observed that the sensitivity of the society towards these studies (news, articles, posters, etc.) at the beginning decreased significantly over time and started to lose its effect to a great extent. The job of a visual communication designer is getting harder every day in studies related to the pandemic as well as in other subjects. In order to attract the attention of the audience, it is a necessity to go beyond the known design elements and the same style of expression and prepare them in different structures. In the article, the common design elements used from randomly selected samples among different visual communication studies were categorically classified and defined. Since these definitions and classifications are made with a personal point of view, they are open to all kinds of criticism and interpretation. Keywords: Covid-19, visual elements, visual communication, design

scholarly journals Mobile media beyond mobile phones

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Frith ◽  
Didem Özkul
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Autonomous Cars ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Identification Tags ◽  
The Many ◽  
Media And Communication

In this introduction, we argue for an expanded focus in mobile media and communication studies (MMCS) that accounts for the many types of mobile media that affect our lives. We begin by pointing out that mobile phone/smartphone research has dominated MMCS as a field. That focus makes sense, but it runs the risk of MMCS essentially turning into “smartphone studies,” which we argue would limit our impact. To make that case, we identify a few examples of the types of oft-ignored technologies that could add to the depth and breadth of MMCS research (e.g., RFID [radio frequency identification] tags, the Walkman, barcodes). We then summarize the articles in this special issue to categorize the breadth of this research, which ranges from analyses of mobile fans to autonomous cars to mobile infrastructure.

scholarly journals Fruits of Gregory Bateson’s Epistemological Crisis: Embodied Mind-Making and Interactive Experience in Research and Professional Praxis

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Russell ◽  
Ray Ison
Keyword(s):  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Embodied Mind ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Fundamental Error ◽  
Interactive Experience ◽  
Reflexive Inquiry

Background:  The espoused rationale for this special issue, situated “at the margins of cybernetics,” was to revisit and extend the common genealogy of cybernetics and communication studies. Two possible topics garnered our attention: 1) the history of intellectual adventurers whose work has appropriated cybernetic concepts; and 2) the remediation of cybernetic metaphors.Analysis:  A heuristic for engaging in first- and second-order R&D praxis, the design of which was informed by co-research with pastoralists (1989–1993) and the authors’ engagements with the scholarship of Bateson and Maturana, was employed and adapted as a reflexive inquiry framework.Conclusion and implications:  This inquiry challenges the mainstream desire for change and the belief in getting the communication right in order to achieve change. The authors argue this view is based on an epistemological error that continues to produce the very problems it intends to diminish, and thus we live a fundamental error in epistemology, false ontology, and misplaced practice. The authors offer instead conceptual and praxis possibilities for triggering new co-evolutionary trajectories.Keywords:  Reflexive praxis; Experience; Distinctions; Critical incidents; MaturanaRÉSUMÉContexte  La raison d’être de ce numéro spécial « aux marges de la cybernétique » était de revisiter et d’étoffer la généalogie partagée de la cybernétique et des études en communication. Deux sujets possibles ont retenu notre attention : 1) l’histoire d’explorateurs intellectuels qui ont emprunté certains concepts à la cybernétique; et 2) la rectification de métaphores cybernétiques.Analyse  Comme cadre d’enquête réflexive, les auteurs ont adopté et adapté une heuristique fondée sur des praxis de recherche de premier et de second ordre. La conception de cette démarche a été nourrie par une recherche entreprise avec des éleveurs en milieu pastoral (1989-1893) ainsi que par leur propre investissement dans les travaux de Bateson et de MaturanaConclusion et implications  Cette enquête remet en question le désir conventionnel du changement et la croyance qu’il suffit de bien communiquer pour produire ce changement. Les auteurs soutiennent que ce point de vue se fonde sur une erreur épistémologique qui engendre les problèmes mêmes qu’elle cherche à résoudre, perpétuant ainsi une erreur fondamentale en épistémologie, une fausse ontologie et une pratique déplacée. A la place, les auteurs suggèrent des voies conceptuelles et pratiques permettant de promouvoir de nouvelles trajectoires de coévolution.

Introduction to Special Issue on Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amardo Rodriguez ◽  
Mohan J. Dutta ◽  
Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Do So

Hegemons arise by smashing and terrorizing human diversity. They do so structurally, institutionally, and discursively—that is, through logics, rationales, and schemes. In this special issue, we grapple with the racism problem that pervades communication studies. In fact, the discipline has long had a racism problem, silenced by overarching structures that deploy the language of civility to erase conversations that call out this problem. This special issue, “Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege,” focuses on the racial, ideological, and epistemological logics, rationales, and schemes, such as falsely separating scholarly merit from diversity, that the status quo in communication studies employs to keep minority peoples marginalized. We contend that looking at the racism problem that pervades communication studies from a perspective of whiteness deepens our understanding of this problem in profound ways.

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