To the readers and future authors of the journal

Dear colleagues!

The journal "ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics" ("PRAXEMA") is a journal dedicated to the discussion of theoretical problems of modern visual semiotics, which includes the study of the visual aspects of the organization and functioning of culture as a communicative environment.

Visual semiotics is understood as one of the new dynamic human sciences and as a multidisciplinary field in which methods and achievements of traditional branches of the humanities interact: philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, political science, art history, religious studies, esthetics, ethics, history, linguistics, and ethnography.

The emphasis on the communicative aspects of visual semiotics determines the dominant research perspective on this topic. It offers the possibility to focus on the relationship between visual phenomena and systems of visual phenomena and cultural and anthropological practice. In this (pragmatic) perspective, every visual sema can and should be interpreted as a praxema: a sign representing and producing certain pragmatic installations, norms, and effects. The object of visual semiotics is thus understood as a sphere of cultural and anthropological praxis, a space of mutual understanding and interaction through visually expressed, existentially important meanings.

Frequency: 4 issues per year.

Articles on the following topics can be published in the journal:

• philosophy of the visual image (semantics, syntax, pragmatics)
• theory of the sign and sign communication; visual (non-verbal) languages
• visual axiology (analysis of the visual experience of the fixation and translation of norms and values in culture; cultural and semiotic transfer; visual environment as a field of normative didactics; visual semiotics as communicative axiology)
• visual anthropology (philosophical, ethnological, and sociological aspects of the representation of human identity)
• visual practices in cultures; visual aspects of the representation of cultural realities; visual arts in the life and history of cultures
• visual aspects of government policy and regional management
• semiotic diagnostics of social and cultural change; visual parameters of culture in relation to the tendencies of humanization/dehumanization of society
• visual semiotics and humanitarian knowledge; the visual aspects of modern Humanities (history, sociology, political science, archeology)
• visual aspects of government policy and regional management
• semiotics of photography
• semiotics of cinema
• semiotics of architecture
• semiotics and hermeneutics of the human lifeworld; anthropology of space
• visual aspects of the functioning of the media
• semiotics of games
• visual semiotics and esthetics
• visual semiotics and cultural geography
• visual aspects of pedagogy
• visual aspects and the dominance of cognitive practices
• visual and virtual

This list is not exhaustive and can be extended to other areas of visual semiotic research at the expense of attention. The languages of this journal are Russian, English and French. For publication in the journal, the editorial board accepts contributions in the following genres: scientific article, translation of a scientific article, essay, interview, review, bibliographic review, and report on a scientific event. All submitted materials will be reviewed.

The founder of this scientific journal is Tomsk State Pedagogical University (Tomsk, Russia).

The journal is included in the subscription catalog of "Russian Press" Index: 90129.