Visual culture — is a field of study that generally includes some combination of cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, by focusing on aspects of culture that rely on visual images. Among theorists working within… … Wikipedia
Visual Culture — Bildwissenschaft (auch Bildmedienwissenschaft, Bildforschung oder Visualistik) ist eine Wissenschaft, die aus sehr unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen hervorgegangen ist und sich zunehmend fachübergreifend mit dem Phänomen Bild in… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Visual Culture Caucus — The Visual Culture Caucus is a membership organization formed to promote and advance the discussion of visual culture in both critical and artistic practice and interdisciplinary contact with those working to similar ends in other visual media.… … Wikipedia
Visual anthropology — is a subfield of cultural anthropology that developed out of the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and since the mid 1990s, new media. While the term is sometimes used interchangeably with ethnographic film , visual… … Wikipedia
Visual ethics — is an emerging interdisciplinary field of scholarship that brings together religious studies, philosophy, photo and video journalism, visual arts, and cognitive science in order to explore the ways human beings relate to others ethically through… … Wikipedia
Visual sociology — is an area of sociology concerned with the visual dimensions of social life. This subdiscipline is nurtured by the [http://www.visualsociology.org International Visual Sociology Association] (IVSA), which holds annual conferences and publishes… … Wikipedia
Visual rhetoric — is the fairly recent development of a theoretical framework describing how visual images communicate, as opposed to aural or verbal messages. The study of visual rhetoric is different from that of visual or graphic design, in that it emphasizes… … Wikipedia
Visual literacy — (or, as it is colloquially known, visuacy [Christopher Allen, in The Australian on 16 August, described this word as a horrible neologism .] ) is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an… … Wikipedia
Visual communication — as the name suggests is communication through visual aid. It is the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon. Primarily associated with two dimensional images, it includes: signs, typography, drawing, graphic… … Wikipedia
Visual Resources Association — The Visual Resources Association (also known as VRA) was founded in 1982. It is an international organization for image media professionals.VRA was founded by slide librarians (visual resources curators) who were members of the College Art… … Wikipedia
