About the Journal

Caleidoscopio – Revista de Comunicação e Cultura is the journal of the Communication Sciences Department of ECATI, Lusófona University. Founded in 2002, Caleidoscopio returns in early 2025 for its second series.

Open to publishing outstanding research in a wide range of topics within and on the margins of the communication sciences, Caleidoscopio specialises in critical approaches to communication and media technologies. With an interdisciplinary aim, Caleidoscopio operates at the crossroads of philosophy of communication, media theory, philosophy of technology, critical theory and aesthetics.

The journal has a special focus the intersection of communication, media and arts in contemporary societies – from the proliferation of visual culture and developments in the cultural industries to the aestheticization of politics and everyday life, from questions of the archive, materialities to virtualization and operational media – and welcomes contributions that address the implications of contemporary media aesthetics on the theorizing of communication itself. 

Caleidoscopio aims to be a worldwide multi-lingual (English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French) open-source high-standard platform for critical and speculative thinking in all areas it covers.