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New Issue of ROTURA Published: “Situated and Shared Visuality: Representations of and by Women”

A new issue of Rotura – Journal of Communication, Culture and Arts has been published, dedicated to the theme “Situated and Shared Visuality: Representations of and by Women.” The issue features guest editors from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos — Gema Pastor Andrés, Diana Fernández Romero, and Silvia Magro Vela.

In line with the principles of feminist epistemology, this edition seeks to explore the relationships between power, knowledge, and representation, focusing on visual narratives with transformative potential that emerge from collaborative creation, as well as proposals for thought, action, or analysis that imagine and open up confined possibilities. It also aims to understand the power of contemporary representations that arise from the relationship between people and images, prompting us to act and to question how to articulate new and/or radical ways of challenging the dominant systems of cultural production of and by women.

Within the scope of this dossier, the following contributions are presented:

  • Pottery and Resistance: Rural Women and Their Transformative Contribution During the Spanish Transition. Photography as a Claim for Memory, by Elisa Lozano Triviño and Mar Marcos Molano;
  • Vênus entre tempos: da especulação arqueológica à fabulação crítica, by Maria Figueiredo Vaz;
  • Criação Partilhada entre realizadora e espectadora: Rua dos Anjos a partir de uma leitura feminista, by Renata Ferraz and Izabelle Louise;
  • Male Gaze and Female Gaze in the Music Industry. Analysis of the MTV Music Awards Song of the Year Winning Videos, by Galo Vásconez Merino, Astrid Aguagallo Suárez, Rommina Mikaela De la Cruz Cruz, and Antonella Carpio Arias;
  • Looking for a Husband with a EU Passport (2000–2005). A cidadania como barreira à circulação, by Pedro Gonçalves;
  • Discursivities of Empowerment, Marginal Women’s Agency, and Psychogeography of Madrasa, by Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Normazla Ahmad Mahir, Norhaili Massari, and Habibah Ismail;
  • O Manifesto das Ovelhas: Lã, Mulheres e o Fio Invisível, by Emanuela Constância Boccia.

This issue also includes the sections Relato de Processo, Entrevistas e Recensões, Varia, and Ensaios.

The full volume is available on the journal’s website.

Call for Papers for the Next Issue of ROTURA: “Visual Methods for Exploring Communication through Creative and Multimodal Perspectives” — Open Until February 27, 2026

Using visual creation as a methodological tool does not necessarily mean that the object of study is itself visual, but as a method and approach, it is undeniably connected to visuality studies and communicative practice. Images can serve multiple functions in research processes and be integrated in various ways: produced by participants, created for experimental purposes, found and used as empirical data, or employed as evocative artifacts. They may be theorized, used to obtain new data, to document processes, or to explore subjective and shared representations and interpretations. The integrative ambition of visual methods raises questions about ethics, visuality, perception, the role and embodiment of the researcher, as well as about how knowledge is created and shared.

We invite the submission of both empirical and theoretical papers that reflect on visual research methods, including (but not limited to) the following topics:

  • Visual methodologies and emerging technologies
  • Vision and artificial intelligence in visual research methods
  • Intersections between visual methods and research-creation practices
  • Critical studies on interpretive ethics in visual research processes
  • Visual scientific creation and aesthetics: post-documentary, immersive, interactive, or transmedia approaches
  • Digital visual cases and restitutions in research
  • Epistemology and studies on algorithmic visuality
  • Analysis of algorithmic visual policies in the recognition of scopic regimes

KEY DATES

  • Submission deadline: February 27, 2026
  • Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2026
  • Final version submission: May 29, 2026
  • Publication date: July 30, 2026

GUEST EDITORS

  • Alba Marín Carrillo, Universidad de Extremadura (Spain)
  • Charles-Alexandre Delestage, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (France)
  • Fernando Contreras Medina, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
  • Ricardo Ignacio Prado Hurtado, Universidad Anáhuac (Mexico)
  • Noa Real García, Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)

ROTURA was recently ranked Q1 in the SJR.

More information about the call for papers [here].

Esta publicação também está disponível em: Portuguese (Portugal)