''Visual Communication Quarterly'' (''VCQ'') is a quarterly peer-reviewed

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covering all areas of visual communication. It is an official journal of the

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's Visual Communication Division and was established in 1994. It is published by

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and the

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is Lawrence Mullen (

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). During its first 11 years, the journal was affiliated with the

National Press Photographers Association The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) is an American professional association made up of still photographers, television videographers, editors, and students in the journalism field. Founded in 1946, the organization is based in at ...

and was mailed to professionals along with ''News Photographer'' magazine. Over its first 25 years, more than two-thirds of the research published in ''VCQ'' focused on the United States and more than half of it focused on photography. Other visual matter the journal has explored include, in descending order, television, film, graphs and graphics, advertisements, editorial cartoons, newspaper design, illustrations, logos and symbols, and websites and blogs.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * EBSCO databases *

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* ProQuest databases *

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