CFP Visual Literacy Mutual Images Journal

Mutual Images Journal welcomes submissions to an upcoming issue on visual literacy.
Mutual Images is an open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the ever-changing, multidimensional relations between Europe and Asia, and between specific European countries or regions and specific Asian countries or regions. It specifically investigates the mutual cultural influences between Japan and other cultures, with an emphasis on the image cultures.
It has been published since summer 2016 by the association Mutual Images who has been running workshops on Japan-Europe ‘mutual images’ since 2013.
Mutual Images accepts original articles pertaining to Asia (especially Japan), Europe, or from a cross-cultural perspective. It publishes academic articles, as well as book reviews on the subjects of society, politics and culture.


ISSN: 2496-1868

Article submission deadline: 1st March 2017

Please, submit your papers to: mutualimages@gmail.com



If we understand ‘culture’ as a process, we can consider ‘visual literacy’ as the skills needed to understand, interpret and discuss images in various sites of meaning-making, including the sites of production, circulation and consumption of images. For this special issue of Mutual Images, we invite submissions that explore interpretative practices that make up a visual culture.
We will take into consideration submissions that range across a wide spectrum of disciplines and practices from different historical periods. We welcome articles pertaining to Asia (especially Japan), Europe, or from a cross-cultural perspective. Subjects may include but are not limited to the following:
Theories of visual literacy that deal with historical, theoretical, interdisciplinary, linguistic and technological aspects of visual literacy;

Visual literacy and meaningful images, that deal with issues of representation, individual experiences, media and formats, and learning and teaching visual literacy, from the perspective of institutions, processes and/or strategies;

Visual literacy across cultures, including communication issues that arise in inter- and multi-cultural contexts, cultural knowledge related to the production and reading of images, the concept of images as reflections of society and visual literacy as a social practice;

Visual literacy and identity, including, but not limited to, issues related to gender, ethnicity and age identity;

Practices of visual literacy, including, but not limited to, translation, rewriting, performing, subtitling, dubbing, editing, annotation, summarizing, blogging, collages, displaying, remixing, modding, exhibitions, criticism, reviews, collection, compilations and administration of databases and wikis, and more.

WRITING RECOMMENDATIONS
Papers should be in Word format with the following information and in this order:
a) title of paper, b) abstract, c) up to 10 keywords, d) author(s), e) affiliation, f) email address, g) body of the article.
The subject line of the e-mail should be: VISUAL LITERACY 2017 Submission.
All papers will be anonymously peer-reviewed.
We will acknowledge receipt of and respond to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us within a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal. We suggest, then, to resend it.