The journal El Profesional de la Información has just opened the period for receiving paper-proposal for volume 30, which is scheduled to be published between March and April 2021. On this occasion, the researcher Javier Marcial Felici will be the invited editor of a number entitled “Images and truth: memory, body and representation”.
Proposals around the following topics will be considered:
- Evolution of the statutes of the image: analog, digital, postdigital.
- Images as builders of identities, subjectivities or collectivities.
- Crosslinks between science, image and art.
- Application of images to critical discourse analyzes: cyberfeminisms, online activisms, visibility of groups at risk of exclusion.
- Textual analysis of proposals based on the postdigital image: i-docs, augmented reality or virtual reality pieces, video games, gifs …
- Impact of the postdigital image in established fields of communication (postphotography, postclassic cinema, advertising, video clips, digital journalism and cyberjournalism, etc.)
- Implication of the new statutes of the image in relation to fields of contemporary humanities: post-humanism, post-digital aesthetics, net art, etc.
- Problems of conservation, distribution and exhibition of images in the world of digital archives.
- New journalistic narratives in the framework of the postdigital image: Storytelling, journalistic hypertextuality, journalistic narratives through apps and mobiles.
- Creative exercises of historical memory in relation to images: repositories, immersive experiences, reappropriations, remounts …
The deadline for submitting proposals ends on September 10.
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