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Landcare and Landscapes and Accidental Beauty: Failing Digital Technologies and the Gaze of Child Researchers 土地护理与景观和意外之美：失败的数字技术与儿童研究者的目光

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.1177/14703572231209479

Alexandra Lasczik, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Maia Osborn, Lisa Siegel, Marianne Logan

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An observational sketch essay of an undocumented immigrant hunger strike in Brussels 关于布鲁塞尔无证移民绝食抗议的观察素描文章

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Visual Communication Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.1177/14703572241233644

Baldwin Van Gorp

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Visual Communication is proud to announce its second Early Career Research Scholarship 视觉传达》荣幸地宣布设立第二个 "早期职业研究奖学金"。

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Visual Communication Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1177/14703572241271531

Louise Ravelli, Janina Wildfeuer

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Corrigendum to Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement 视觉抗议再现与抗议者的健康认同：反新常态运动的战场》更正件

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Visual Communication Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1177/14703572241275520

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The things they are a-changin': reinventing daily objects during the chilean 2019 revolt 物是人非：智利 2019 年叛乱期间的日常用品再创造

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Visual Communication Pub Date : 2024-08-24 DOI: 10.1177/14703572231197789

Ricardo Greene, Tomas Errazuriz

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A Mama for Owen: re-addressing adoption creatively in an accordion of visual parallelism 欧文的妈妈：在视觉平行的手风琴中创造性地重新解决收养问题

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1177/14703572241239491

Coral Calvo-Maturana

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Introduction: Hyper-Visuality: Images in the Era of Social Platforms, Digital Archives and Computational Economies 导言：超视觉：社交平台、数字档案和计算经济时代的图像

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Visual Communication Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/14703572241247836

Enzo D’Armenio, Maria Giulia Dondero

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Semiotics of the black box: on the rhetorics of algorithmic images 黑盒子的符号学：算法图像的修辞学

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/14703572241247120

Massimo Leone

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‘All your image are belong to us’: heritagization, archiving and historicization of memes 你的所有图像都属于我们"：记忆体的遗产化、存档和历史化

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Visual Communication Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/14703572231221030

Valérie Schafer, Fred Pailler

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Computational approaches to the figurative and plastic dimensions of images 图像的形象性和可塑性计算方法

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Visual Communication Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/14703572241239515

Dario Compagno

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