Vista is a scientific journal in the field of Visual Culture that aims to the promotion of a transdisciplinary debate around culture’s visual mediation processes (photography, cinema, television, advertising, videogames and digital media and so on). 

About the Journal

Focus and scope

Vista is a scientific journal in the field of Visual Culture that aims to the promotion of a transdisciplinary debate around culture’s visual mediation processes (photography, cinema, television, advertising, videogames and digital media and so on).

Vista has the following goals:

- to promote the critical thinking on image and the study of visual objects, analog and digital, as well as media arts productions, within the field of Communication Sciences;

- to bring out a set of studies, resulting from different scientific domains, several geographical backgrounds and diverse historical moments, which translate heterogeneous theoretical and methodological frameworks around Visual Culture and technological arts ;

- to diversify the objects of analysis within the vast domain of Image Studies and Media Arts in order to broaden the sharing of the visible, actively contributing to a politics of vision;

- to encourage scientific contributions as well as sundry visual projects in areas such as photography, video art, urban art, and the technological arts, contributing to question the existing boundaries between scientific culture and artistic culture.

Conceived in 2015 by the Visual Culture Working Group of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (Sopcom), in the last semester of 2020, started to be published by the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho.

The jornal is bianual (January-June and July-December). However, taking into account good scientific publication practices and in order to reduce the time between submission and publication, operates in a continuous publication. The journal is published in Portuguese and English and has a rigorous system of peer reviewing (double-blind reviewing process by external reviwers).

Journal structure

Vista is organised into four sections:

- articles; 

- interviews;

- book reviews;

- visual projects.

The format “visual projects” privileges the visual content, opening up to the diversity of configurations that it can take, from photography to illustration, without neglecting the audiovisual, collage or digital remix. Submissions can articulate text and image, assuming the latter as a single vehicle of meaning production. The visual essay must be accompanied by a descriptive memory capable of contextualizing the visual work, clarifying its framework, intentions, objectives and/or methodology.

Permanent call

Vista invites proposals for original and unpublished academic papers on the topics related to the objectives and scope of the journal, in the form of (1) articles; (2) visual projects and (3) book reviews and interviews.

Works can be submitted in English or Portuguese. After the peer review process, the authors should ensure translation, and the editors shall have the final decision on publication of the article.

Works signed by doctors will be evaluated, in single authorship or co-authoring with doctoral candidates and masters. This restriction does not apply to the submission of reviews, which may be signed by doctoral candidates.

Vista is a peer-reviewed journal that uses a double blind peer review process. After submission, each work will be distributed to two reviewers, previously invited to evaluate it, in terms of its academic quality, originality and relevance to the objectives and scope of the journal.

Submission guidelines

Originals must be submitted via the journal's website (https://revistavista.pt/). If you are accessing Vista for the first time, you must register in order to submit your article (indications to register here).

The guidelines for authors can be consulted here.

For further information, please contact: vista@ics.uminho.pt

About the Journal

Focus and scope

Vista is a scientific journal in the field of Visual Culture that aims to the promotion of a transdisciplinary debate around culture’s visual mediation processes (photography, cinema, television, advertising, videogames and digital media and so on).

Vista has the following goals:

- to promote the critical thinking on image and the study of visual objects, analog and digital, as well as media arts productions, within the field of Communication Sciences;

- to bring out a set of studies, resulting from different scientific domains, several geographical backgrounds and diverse historical moments, which translate heterogeneous theoretical and methodological frameworks around Visual Culture and technological arts ;

- to diversify the objects of analysis within the vast domain of Image Studies and Media Arts in order to broaden the sharing of the visible, actively contributing to a politics of vision;

- to encourage scientific contributions as well as sundry visual projects in areas such as photography, video art, urban art, and the technological arts, contributing to question the existing boundaries between scientific culture and artistic culture.

Conceived in 2015 by the Visual Culture Working Group of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (Sopcom), in the last semester of 2020, started to be published by the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho.

The jornal is bianual (January-June and July-December). However, taking into account good scientific publication practices and in order to reduce the time between submission and publication, operates in a continuous publication. The journal is published in Portuguese and English and has a rigorous system of peer reviewing (double-blind reviewing process by external reviwers).

Journal structure

Vista is organised into four sections:

- articles;

- interviews;

- book reviews;

- visual projects.

The format “visual projects” privileges the visual content, opening up to the diversity of configurations that it can take, from photography to illustration, without neglecting the audiovisual, collage or digital remix. Submissions can articulate text and image, assuming the latter as a single vehicle of meaning production. The visual essay must be accompanied by a descriptive memory capable of contextualizing the visual work, clarifying its framework, intentions, objectives and/or methodology.

Editorial Team

Editor-in-chief

• Moisés de Lemos Martins, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Associate editor

• Isabel Macedo, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Editorial board

• Albertino Gonçalves, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Ana Cláudia Mei, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
• Ana Cristina Pereira, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
• Ana Gabriela Macedo, Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Angie Biondi, Universidade Tuiuti  do  Paraná, Brazil
• António Fernando Cascais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Bernardo Pinto de Almeida, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Carla Cerqueira, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
• Daniel Brandão, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Denitsa Petrova, University of Edinburg, United Kingdom
• Denize Correa Araujo, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Brazil
• Domingo Hernández Sánchez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
• Fabio La Rocca, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France
• Helena Pires, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Isabel Babo, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
• Jacinto Godinho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• João Sousa Cardoso, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
• José Bragança de Miranda, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• José Gomes Pinto, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
• Julieta Leite, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
• Luís Nogueira, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
• Luís Loureiro, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
• Madalena Oliveira, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Manuela Penafria, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
• Margarida Medeiros, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Maria Augusta Babo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Maria da Luz Correia, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Maria Teresa Cruz, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Maria Teresa Flores, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
• Martins José Chelene Mapera, Universidade de Zambeze, Mozambique
• Miguel Leal, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Mirian Tavares, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
• Nelson Zagalo, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
• Nuno Martins, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
• Pedro Mota Teixeira, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
• Ricardo Campos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Silvana Mota-Ribeiro, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
• Vincenzo Susca, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III, France
• Victor Flores, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
• Zara Pinto-Coelho, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Advisory board

• Bernhard Siegert, Bauhaus University, Germany
• Georges Didi-Huberman, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris, France
• Gillian Rose, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, United States of America
• Lucia Santaella, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil

Editorial production

• Marisa Mourão, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Universidade do Minho, Portugal