Bücher der Reihe Visual Learning

The authors of the 6th volume of the series Visual Learning outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy.

This book raises the question of what visuality really is and how it is possible to explain it. The authors outline the topic of visuality and virtual reality in an interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy.

With its unprecedented wealth of images and videos, the digital world poses a completely new challenge to the entire educational system, in particular to higher education. In what sense can we speak of a visual liberation, a visual homecoming? To what extent are images autonomous carriers of meaning, what does a logic of images amount to?