Computational Visualistics, Media Informatics, and Virtual Communities

In recent years there has been a rising awareness within the international scientific community that there is a need to study the various aspects of the integration of images and new me­ dia both from the point of view of computer science as well as from other areas which deal with users' interface to information sources, in particular design, psychology, education, po­ litical science, sociology, and philosophy. To a certain extent the view of the topic from any single one of these discipl...