Visual Communication Online – Design Trends and Perspectives of Media in a Digital Environment
Visual Communication Online – Design Trends and Perspectives of Media in a Digital Environment

Author(s): Vesselina Valkanova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: online visual communication; trends; perspectives; media; digital environment; communication design
Summary/Abstract: The nature of visual communication and how the media addresses their audiences is changed from the functioning of the media in a digital environment. In the new user situation, the design is called to serve the reader’s control, independence, and freedom of use, therefore it is necessary to offer the contents in the most flexible form possible. It is pointed out in the article that communication design is a strategy forgiving certain forms of representation to all the functional changes that traditional journalism has undergone in recent years. In the end, it is concluded that designers because of and with technology will gain new, powerful, and expressive ways to build, share, and influence visions.

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