Cartoons: Drawing Emotion
Cartoons are commonplace in myriad acts of daily communication from kinder-garden story time to cutting-edge political analysis. They attract a diverse audience and serve numerous functions depending of the cultural, social and political context in which they are created and/or circulated. As part of the flow of images and signs in the global public sphere cartoons generate emotional responses (positive and negative) and potentially inform the ways in which individuals classify, organise and interpret the social world. For researchers and particularly for those working in or around ‘visual studies’ cartoons are visual objects of/for practitioner and collaborator reflection. For this special issue of Visual Methodologies we invite theoretical and empirical contributions on a broad range of topics associated with cartoons in research practice, however defined.
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