Intercultural and visual communication

Within frames of the above-mentioned topic, various aspects of visual and intercultural communication will be analyzed. Relevance of visual studies and image analysis comes with visual turn – the predominance of image in public spaces and mass media as well as prevalence of image analysis in academic research, particularly in humanities and social sciences (cultural studies, sociology, communication etc.). Relevance of intercultural communication is, in turn, witnessed by globalization and consequent factors: cosmopolitan tendencies, intensive migration and related problem of multiculturalism, intercultural conflicts and so on. The topic will be analyzed in the following sections: visual communication, cross-cultural communication, relations and contacts between visual and intercultural communication. The subsections of Visual Communication are the image and interdisciplinarity, humanities and social sciences convergence, image and visual communication in creative and entertainment industries, image and creative city, role of image in creative education and so on. The section Intercultural communication involves the East-West discourse, intercultural conflicts and challenges, creative and entertainment industries in the context of intercultural communication, the origins of cross-cultural entertainment etc. Finally, searching for Relations and Contacts Between Visual and Intercultural Communication, the subsequent subsections will be investigated: the role and advantages of image within cross-cultural communication, East Asia aesthetics in the European perspective, predominance of image in comparative studies etc.