Image and Society
Mass media. Culture industry.
The society of the spectacle.
The phenomenon of ‘second screen.’ Multitasking viewers.
Media influence and political world.
Visual sociology. Visual dimensions of social life.
Cultural dimensions of the image: race, ethnic origin, gender, age, sexuality, bodies.
Advertising. Rhetoric of the image.
Propaganda: forms, psychological mechanisms, and political agendas.
Global and local images.
Galleries. Museums. Achaeological sites.
Cultural heritage.
Fashion. Design. Cosmetics.
Body image. Cosmetic surgeries. Eating disorders.
The impact of social media on male/female body image.
The Image Industry
Cultural policies.
Film industry. Film festivals.
Painting and sculpture exhibitions.
Auction houses. Agents and agencies.
Local and international trade.
Digital distribution platforms. Streaming.
Self-publishing and self-promotion. Youtubers.
Digital devices: smartphones, tablets, augmented reality.
Media and education. Edumedia.
New business models and new processes.
Copyright and intellectual property.
Graphic design tools.
Interactive multimedia content.
Video games.
Visual History and Philosophy
History of art.
Philosophy of art. Aesthetics.
The visible and the invisible.
Images and material culture.
Technologies of the image.
Analyzing images.
Iconographic documents. Image archives.
Image and social networks. Images on the cloud. Internet.
Webcams. Privacy and surveillance.
Intellectual property rights. Creative Commons. Reusability.
Authorship. Co-authorship. The author-function concept. Death of the author?
Elements of the image: perspectives, colors, lines, sight.
Visual ethics I: religious images, philosophical images and metaphors, photo and video journalism, filmaking.
Visual ethics II: ethics of visual production, ethics of visual reception. Codes of ethics and self-regulation.
New visual ecologies. New philosophies.
Visual Culture
The substance of the image.
Visual form vs visual function.
Static images: photography, painting, drawings, comics, sculptures.
Dynamic images: cinema, TV, videos, documentaries, animation.
Visual rhetoric: charts, paintings, diagrams, webpages, advertising, movies, newspapers, magazines, photographs, newsreels.
Explicit images. Hidden messages. Ways of seeing.
Visual learning. Visual literacy. Interpreting, negotiating, and making meaning from images.
Visual fine arts: drawing, painting, sculptures, photography, video, cinema, ceramics.
Visual applied arts: industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design, decorative art, architecture.
Visual communication. Semiotics.
Visual storytelling: channels, archetypes, emotions, and engagement.
Transmedia storytelling.
Visualization technologies.
Geographical Information System (GIS). Conceptual maps.
Digitization and visualization of cultural objects. 2D and 3D.
Medical images. Images in/of science.
