Redrawing the Boundaries in Online Education through Media Literacy, OER, and Web 2.0

This chapter presents lessons learnt after reflecting on a distance learning course based on Web 2.0 tools, which was promoted in order to teach visual communication concepts to students on a teaching degree programme at a Federal University in Brazil (UFTM, Minas Gerais State). The authors assessed the potential of open learning to bring changes in education to the new generations of teachers, in pace with cultural transformations induced by the emergence of a digital culture. The course was structured in four modules: About visual language; Elements of visual communication; Design and style and Non-verbal text coding and decoding. The exercises in each one of the four modules mixed resources of a variety of sources, but all of them had in common the fact that they were open, free to use, and available to the general public. Results suggest that this is a productive approach to introduce new subjects into traditional curricula, but it forces educators to rethink established uses, particularly those related to assessment.

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The Application of Ethnic Cultural Symbols in Modern Visual Communication Design

Scientific and Social Research ◽

10.36922/ssr.v3i1.1042 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Xin Zhang

Keyword(s):

Visual Communication ◽

Aesthetic Experience ◽

Value Orientation ◽

Visual Language ◽

Symbolic Meaning ◽

Cultural Symbols ◽

Visual Communication Design ◽

Artistic Value ◽

Communication Design

Visual communication design is based on visual perceived information, and conveys a certain value orientation or objective cognition through visual language, words, symbols, images, etc. In modern visual communication design, focus on and discover national cultural symbols to express national cultural spirit and artistic connotation, so as to better deepen the channels of multicultural integration and make up for the lack of culture in modern visual communication design. The strong symbolic meaning and regional color of the ethnic cultural symbols are the specific embodiment of the Chinese people’s inherited ideas, customs and culture, with distinctive artistic value and aesthetic experience. This paper combines the characteristics, connotation and classification of ethnic cultural symbols to explore their application value and specific application in visual communication design.

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Eksistensi Pameran Virtual Tugas Akhir Mahasiswa dalam Sudut Pandang Difusi-Inovasi

Jurnal Audience ◽

10.33633/ja.v4i2.4662 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (02) ◽

pp. 268-290

Author(s):

Erisa Adyati Rahmasari ◽

Toto Haryadi

Keyword(s):

Online Education ◽

Visual Communication ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

Academic Community ◽

College Level ◽

Literature Study ◽

Visual Communication Design ◽

Final Project ◽

Communication Design ◽

Virtual Exhibition

Abstract Implementation of education activities on 2020 for college level has changed because of Covid-19 pandemic. It must be carried by online include an exhibition for the Final Project. Dian Nuswantoro university (UDINUS) as an IT based campus has experience on online education implementation. However, this does not apply to final project exhibition activities which are usually held physically in a gallery, as it has been implemented by Visual Communication Design (DKV) majors at UDINUS for years. This transition is a new thing for DKV academic community, so it becomes the main topic of this article. The research was conducted to obtain points of view and conclusion regarding the response of the academic community to virtual exhibition and its potential on post-pandemic period. This research was carried out at the beginning of the even semester according to the UDINUS academic calendar, namely March 2021 by online. Qualitative and quantitative methods are used to gain data deeper through virtual exhibition observation, literature study, and questionnaires to the academic community randomly. The research adapted the diffusion-innovation theory of Rogers and Shoemaker’s model, which has conclusion that the adaptation of virtual exhibition for the final project of DKV students received positive response and it was accepted as a substitution of physical exhibition, as well as an alternative which can be chosen to hold exhibitions in the post-pandemic period. This research can be developed further, especially to examine the potential of virtual exhibition deeply, that have not been found in this research.Keywords: Covid-19, Visual Communication Design, diffusion-innovation; virtual exhibition, perceptionAbstrak Pelaksanaan kegiatan pendidikan tahun 2020 di tingkat perguruan tinggi mengalami perubahan signifikan akibat pandemi Covid-19. Aktivitas perkuliahan wajib dilaksanakan secara online termasuk pameran karya Tugas Akhir. Universitas Dian Nuswantoro (UDINUS) sebagai kampus berbasis IT memiliki pengalaman dalam pelaksanaan pendidikan secara daring. Namun, hal ini belum berlaku untuk kegiatan pameran Tugas Akhir yang biasanya dilaksanakan secara fisik dalam sebuah galeri, sebagaimana telah diterapkan oleh program studi Desain Komunikasi Visual (DKV) di UDINUS selama bertahun – tahun. Transisi ini merupakan hal baru bagi civitas akademika DKV, sehingga menjadi topik utama artikel ini. Penelitian dilakukan untuk memperoleh pandangan dan kesimpulan terkait respon civitas akademika terhadap pameran virtual serta bagaimana potensinya di masa pasca pandemi. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada awal semester genap sesuai kalender akademik UDINUS yakni bulan Maret 2021 serta dilakukan secara online. Metode kualitatif dan kuantitatif digunakan untuk menggali data secara lebih mendalam melalui observasi pameran virtual, studi pustaka, serta penyebaran angket online kepada civitas akademika secara acak. Penelitian mengadaptasi teori difusi-inovasi model Rogers dan Shoemaker, yang menghasilkan kesimpulan bahwa adaptasi pameran virtual dalam Tugas Akhir mahasiswa DKV mendapat respon positif dan diterima sebagai substitusi pameran fisik, serta menjadi alternatif yang bisa dipilih untuk menyelenggarakan pameran di masa pasca pandemi. Penelitian ini bisa dikembangkan lebih lanjut khususnya untuk mengkaji lebih dalam potensi pameran virtual yang belum ditemukan di penelitian ini.Kata Kunci: Covid-19; Desain Komunikasi Visual; difusi-inovasi; pameran virtual; persepsi

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Linguistic images of modern parenthood on parenting websites

Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0013.8469 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 (4 (254) ◽

pp. 197-215

Author(s):

Anna Wileczek

Keyword(s):

Web 2.0 ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Family Life ◽

Empirical Knowledge ◽

Small Child ◽

Web 2.0 Tools ◽

Cultural Transformations ◽

Hierarchical Relationships ◽

Linguistic Images ◽

The City

Contemporary socio-cultural transformations of family life can be observed in the area of non-specialist parental discourse in terms of both modern parenthood and the celebration of childhood. The new quality in the experience and creation of parenthood is noticeable especially in the communication performed with the help of Web 2.0 tools (which are currently among the most important platforms for the exchange of particularly valued “unscientific” – experience, because it is based on empirical knowledge). Internet messages (entries, posts, comments) create an involved parenting and glorify a small child as a subject of parental efforts in the context of post-hierarchical relationships, but they also serve to profile communities gathered around a superior idea or topic (e.g. eco-mum, modern mother, fitmum, dad in the city, dad at work, etc.). They also endorse the principle of the aestheticisation of everyday life, the messages are filled with linguistic humour and expose a non-standard way of thinking, matching perfectly the main trends of postmodern communication.

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