Rotura – Journal of Communication, Culture, and Arts
Rotura
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- Call For Paper Type: Regular
- H2 Index: 0
- Submission Date: 2026-02-27
- Notification Date: 2026-04-30
- Final Version Date: 2026-05-29
Humanities, Literature & Arts (General) Crafts, Design & Arts Communication
Visual Methods for Exploring Communication through Creative and Multimodal Perspectives
Visual methods offer an alternative way to explore reality from a visually mediated perspective, aiming to transcend the boundaries and disciplinary specificity that often constrain the creative potential of the social sciences. There is a general consensus in understanding visual methods as those that incorporate visual creation into the research process, although their scope goes beyond this. Multimodal media practices, sensory approaches, and participatory or collaborative methods shape this flexible and constantly evolving field, which is characterized by its capacity to make sense of audiovisual representations and creations within the research process itself (Pink, 2009; Bouldoires et al., 2017; Yvart et al., 2023). This movement is notable for its independent, interdisciplinary, and even “un-disciplinary” nature. Bodily and subjective relationships (Ruby, 2000; MacDougall, 1995) that shape the visual experience and construct representation exemplify the multiple ambitions of these methods, which require a deeper reflection on the data they generate – an aspect that is not always sufficiently considered (Buckingham, 2009; Switzer, 2018). Approaches such as those of Cruz, Sumartojo and Pink (2017) and Ibanez-Bueno and Marín (2021) focus on new processes, digital tools, and emerging forms of scientific writing to explore their potential. These proposals allow for the conceptualization of integrated forms of knowledge production and presentation, such as web documentaries, transmedia narratives, or 360º immersive environments, which expand the traditional ways of communicating research outcomes.
POSSIBLE TOPICS
We invite the submission of both empirical and theoretical articles that reflect on visual research methods.
- Visual methodologies and emerging technologies
- Vision and artificial intelligence in visual research methodologies
- Intersections between visual methods and research-creation practices
- Critical studies on interpretative ethics in visual research processes
- Visual scientific creation and aesthetics: post-documentary, immersive, interactive, or transmedia
- Cases and digital visual restitutions in research
- Epistemology and studies on algorithmic visuality
- Analysis of algorithmic visual policies in the recognition of scopic regimes
GUEST EDITORS
Alba Marín Carrillo. Universidad de Extremadura (España)
Charles-Alexandre Delestage. Université Bordeaux Montaigne (Francia)
Fernando Contreras Medina. Universidad de Sevilla (España)
Ricardo Ignacio Prado Hurtado. Universidad Anáhuac (México)
Noa Real García. Universidad de La Laguna (España)
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