The VII World Congress on Communication and Arts - WCCA’2014, happened in Vila Real, Portugal, on April 20-23, 2014.

The theme of the congress was: "The Challenge of Developing Creative Artists in a Standardized World".

The official languages were English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The host Institution was University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD).

Prof. Dr. Claudio R. Brito
General Chair

General Chair:
Claudio R. Brito

Technical Program Chair:
Melany M. Ciampi

Local Chairs:
Galvão dos Santos Meirinhos

Publications Chair:
Victor Freitas de A. Barros

Advisory Committee:
António Ferrari, President of SPEE
Dana Dobrovská, President of IMC
Denis Willemin, President of RCI
Jose Carlos Quadrado, President of IFEES
Khalil S. Taraman, President of SME Education Foundation
Manuel Castro, President of IEEE Ed. Soc.
Michael E. Auer, President of IGIP
Muthar Al-Ubaidi, President of INTERTECH
Walter W. Buchanan, President of ASEE
Wim Van Petegem, President of SEFI

Technical Program Committee:
Melany M. Ciampi, Chair of Committee
André Luiz de Lima Reda, Brazil
Anita Westerström, Sweden
Carlos José Vieira Mendes Cardoso, Portugal
Claudio R. Brito, Brazil
Dan Budny, USA
David Marshall, Austrália
Deb Verhoeven, Austrália
Francisco Carlos Paletta, Brazil
Federico Flueckiger, Switzerland
Galvão Meirinhos, Portugal
Göran Westerström, Sweden
Irina Avenarious, Rússia
João Vicente Cegato Bertomeu, Brazil
Luis Amaral, Portugal
Marcos Rizolli, Brazil
María Feldgen, Argentina
Osvaldo Clúa, Argentina
Rita Maria Lino Tarcia, Brazil
Rosa Vasconcelos, Portugal
Teresa Almeida, Portugal
Teresa Larkin, USA
Vânia Ribas Ulbricht, Brazil
Victor A. Barros, Brazil
Vladimir G. Zakharov, Russia
Yolanda Guran-Postlethwaite, USA

The topics of congress were:

• Advertising
• Art History
• Cinema
• Comics
• Communication Theory
• Culture and Technology
• Journalism
• Massive Media
• Video Arts
• Visual Communications & Graphic Arts
• Web Design