VOODE/VOOPL-1: the visual construction of CORBA components

<p>This editorial introduces the subject matter of the thematic issue, which includes a diverse collection of contributions from authors in various disciplines including, history, architecture, planning, sociology and geography. Within the context of mediatisation processes—and the increased use of ever-expanding I&C technologies—communication has undergone profound changes. As such, this thematic issue will discuss how far (digital) media tools and their social uses in urban design and planning have impacted the visualisation of urban imaginations and how urban futures are thereby communicatively produced. Referring to an approach originating from the media and communication sciences, the authors begin with an outline of the core concepts of mediatisation and digitalisation. They suggest how the term ‘visualisation’ can be conceived and, against this background, based upon the sociological approach of communicative constructivism, a proposal is offered, which diverges from traditional methods of conceptualising visualisations: Instead, it highlights the need for a greater consideration towards the active role of creators (e.g., planners) and recipients (e.g., stakeholders) as well as the distinctive techniques of communication involved (e.g., a specific digital planning tools). The authors in this issue illustrate how communicative construction, particularly the visual construction of urban futures, can be understood, depending upon the kind of social actors as well as the means of communication involved. The editorial concludes with a summary of the main arguments and core results presented.</p>

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The Visual Construction of the Romanian Militarized Masculinity on Romanian Army’s Facebook Pages

Journal of Media Research ◽

10.24193/jmr.40.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (2 (40)) ◽

pp. 70-90

Author(s):

Elena NOVĂCESCU

Keyword(s):

Armed Forces ◽

Main Role ◽

Visual Methods ◽

Social Constructs ◽

The Social ◽

Visual Construction ◽

Facebook Pages ◽

Gendered Stereotypes ◽

High Degree ◽

The Military

Because nowadays’ world is visually saturated, many social re- searchers are using visual methods to understand how images contribute to the shaping and perpetuation of social constructs, norms, and behaviors. Gender is such a construct, and the beliefs and principles that contributed to the social and visual construction of gender have been broadly argued in the last decades. However, in today’s digitalized world, there is a space poorly explored by gender and visual researchers, namely how the army as a media actor contributes to the construction of masculinity through the images it promotes online. Thus, with the purpose to explore this gap, the present paper examines how the Romanian armed forces visually construct the militarized masculinity on their official Facebook pages, highlighting how those images contribute to the consolidation of the existing gendered stereotypes. Through the photos it disseminates, the Romanian Army le- gitimizes the main role of men in defending the country by revealing de- sirable male characteristics and the high degree of connectivity with the military theatre.

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Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises

Crisis and the Media - Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture ◽

10.1075/dapsac.76.08lor ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 151-176

Author(s):

Nuria Lorenzo-Dus ◽

Philippa Smith

Keyword(s):

Political Crises ◽

Visual Construction

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Visual Art, Ethical Witnessing, and Resistance

Sensible Politics ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190071738.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 117-140

Author(s):

William A. Callahan

Keyword(s):

Visual Art ◽

International Crises ◽

Authoritarian State ◽

Political Aesthetics ◽

The Social ◽

Traditional Sense ◽

Resistance To Power ◽

Visual Construction ◽

Ideological Resistance ◽

A Site

The chapter engages with another popular approach to visual international politics: visuals as a site of resistance to power, both through producing critical artwork and by ethically witnessing international crises. To trace these issues, the chapter analyzes the work of Ai Weiwei, a world-famous artist-activist whose ethical witnessing creatively resists China’s authoritarian party-state. It shows how Ai’s art presents ideological resistance to state power, in both the traditional sense of liberal resistance to authoritarian state oppression and the hermeneutical sense, in which it is necessary to decode his work for its “meaning” as the social construction of the visual. The chapter then considers how Ai’s documentary film Human Flow (2017) provokes transnational resistance through its “visual construction of the social”—and of the global. It thus examines how visual art can serve as an ethical witness to resist reigning political regimes, and how it also can excite affective communities of sense to creatively resist reigning political aesthetics. Chapter 6 thus highlights the need to appreciate the dynamic tension that entangles cultural governance and resistance.

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