Visual Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Visual Communication is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Visual Communication is proud to announce its second Early Career Research Scholarship33
Design and repair: from object conservation to material transformation24
Your smile works: understanding smiling face emojis in social media interactions11
Book review: Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media BoukoCatherine, Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media. New Yo10
Insights into the black box of multimodal meaning-making: investigating the reception of multimodality empirically9
Visual representation of the menopause in Iran7
Book review: Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and Application NGOTHUHOODSUSANMARTINJAMESPAINTERCLAIRESMITHBRADLEYZAPPAVIGNAMICHELE: Modelling Paralanguage Using Syste7
Book review: Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Multimodal Phenomena SerafiniFrank, Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Multimodal Phenomena. New York, NY: Teachers Colleg7
Photographic ways of seeing: corporeal defamiliarizations within the mirror medium7
How expert designers foster expertise: a study of professional visual communication practice7
Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump6
‘Foodstagramming’ in early 20th-century postcards: a transhistorical perspective5
Visual themes and frames of the Rohingya crisis: newspaper content from three countries neighboring Myanmar5
Learning through mess: Sensemaking visual communication practices in a UK multidisciplinary applied health study5
Misconceptions: a multimodal study of Danish contraception information5
Sculpting Foucauldian power in Game of Thrones as a transmedia project: a systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis5
Multimodality and Reception Studies4
Book review: Art as Communication: Aesthetics, Evolution, and Signaling SimpsonShawn, Art as Communication: Aesthetics, Evolution, and Signaling. New York, NY: Lexington Books, 2024. 289 pp. ISBN 978 4
The Riverine Archive: Nausea and information loss on the neoliberal ship of fools4
Book review: tumblr TiidenbergKatrinHendryNatalie AnnAbidinCrystal, tumblr. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. 280 pp. ISBN 978 1 5095 4109 6 (pbk)4
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of city as text: investigation of meaning metafunctions of Rasht’s Imam Khomeini Street4
Book review: Empirical Multimodality Research: Methods, Evaluations, Implications PflaegingJanaWildfeuerJaninaBatemanJohn, Empirical Multimodality Research: Methods, Evaluations, Implications. Berlin:4
Applying health design thinking to uncover actors in the sustenance of health and wellbeing during hotel quarantine in kuwait4
An audience reception study of danmu-enabled humour in multimodal texts4
Female archetypes in car advertising: the case of Audi4
Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement4
Going against the grain? Appraising the aesthetic labour of male beauty influencers on Instagram3
‘All your image are belong to us’: heritagization, archiving and historicization of memes3
Landcare and landscapes and accidental beauty: failing digital technologies and the gaze of child researchers3
Visualizing political communication on Spanish social media: an analysis of Andalusian political parties’ communication on Instagram3
Revitalizing dry stone heritage through collaborative visual ethnography3
Typicality effect in data graphs3
Operationalizing the male gaze: reconstructing Laura Mulvey’s analysis of visual pleasure3
‘Imagine talking about politics in a kids’ game’: Making sense of #BLM in Nintendo’s Splatoon 23
A computer-assisted analysis of image representations of obesity: comparing UK news content with the World Obesity Federation Image Bank3
Forging New Narratives3
Branding of top Pakistani universities: a multisemiotic analysis of university logos on X3
Relentless Melt: visual trends and aesthetics of contemporary visual music films in Hong Kong3
Michel Pastoureau and the history of visual communication2
Visually informed accounts: instructed achievements during planetarium visits and sky observations2
Dancing with scissors: collage as visual design scholarship2
The urban aesthetics of graffiti murals: reproducing wall space in China’s urban renewal2
Book review: Multimodal Literacy in School Science: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy UNSWORTHLENet al., Multimodal Literacy in School Science: Transdisciplinary Perspect2
Representing cervical cancer in a government social media health campaign in China: moralizing and abstracting women’s sexual health2
Visualizing invisible information: a scoping review of present findings, challenges and opportunities on tactile graphics design2
Drawing on borders: a large-scale framing analysis of coronavirus in early UK news maps2
In praise of visual representation: an inquiry into text analysis and network visualization for charting scientific communities2
Humor, culture, and compliance in health crisis communication: a multimodal analysis of government-produced memes for a local community during a global pandemic2
Exploring the ecosystem of meaning: representation of gesture and its contribution to the visual communication of attitude in South African picture books2
Book review: Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media GILLAMREIGHAN, Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media. Urbana, IL: University of Ill2
Visual Communication is proud to announce its third Early Career Research Scholarship1
From ‘good for her’ to ‘you in danger, girl’: text–image relationships in GIF reply posts1
Book review: Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s1
Fictional mapping: the nature of cartography in film production1
Visual communication and mental health1
Book review: Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space MaioraniArianna, Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space. New York: Routledge, 2020. 102 pp. 1
Amplification of conventional female gender displays and reinforcement of Asian stereotypes in user-generated Artificial Intelligence (AI) images on social media1
Visual design for sexual and reproductive health promotion: a global perspective1
Artists’ books as a qualitative research methodology in multidisciplinary contexts1
Construing chemistry knowledge through images: a social semiotics perspective1
A three-step manual for creating a political villain: the case of Jeremy Corbyn1
Alien domesticity: representing home during a pandemic1
Introduction: hyper-visuality: images in the era of social platforms, digital archives and computational economies1
Book review: Gesture and Multimodality in Second Language Acquisition: A Research Guide1
The role of rhythm in science-animated videos: construing entities and bridging across different semiotic modes1
Visual framing of climate change during natural disasters at home and abroad: an analysis of British news1
Drone views: a multimodal ethnographic perspective1
Illustrating Stravinsky: integration of new media design in live Philharmonic Orchestra performance1
How existing literary translation fits into film adaptations: the subtitling of neologisms in Harry Potter from a multimodal perspective1
Exploring the contemporary Moon Under Water through illustration: nostalgia and the power of the image1
Book review: Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes – A New Cartography of Borders and Migration1
Facing aging: Face Shadow1
Connecting stars and microcosms: visualization bridging astronomy and polaritonics1
China’s Instagram war on COVID-19: picturing healthcare workers and governance in Xinhua’s photographs1
‘Domani a quest’ora potresti essere qui’: multimodal practices for representing temporality in destination advertising1
Football fan choreographies as multimodal performances1
Literate matterings: young artists creating and talking about photography and meaning1
Hasanian ideas extended to visual art: the human figures and theme in Chinese landscape painting1
Feminine power and Daoism: a review of Ba Wang Bian1
A Mama for Owen : re-addressing adoption creatively in an accordion of visual parallelism1
(Re)constructed identities in the social media discourse of Nigeria’s #EndSARS1
Imaging cancer: image-based diagnostic communication in radiologists’ embodied cognition1
360-degree ethnography: affordances and limitations in place-centric research0
The legitimation of screenshots as visual evidence in social media: YouTube videos spreading misinformation and disinformation0
Visual compositing: engagement, interpretation and visualization of Holocaust memory in digital culture0
Book review: Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century0
Corpus-based insights into multimodality and genre in primary school science diagrams0
Book review: Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime, and Punishment in Visual Media BockMary Angela, Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime, and Punishment in Visual Media. New York, NY: Oxford University Press0
From photo documentation to photo diagrams: a technique to make civic ecologies present and legible0
Visual composition of the pitch deck: a multimodal analysis of entrepreneurial pitch presentations0
Analysing gender fluidity representation in perfume bottles with heterosexual matrix theory0
Deconstructing a kaleidoscope of semiotic modes and audience perception of multimodality in advertising discourse0
Connecting in the Gulf: digital inclusion for Aboriginal families on Mornington Island0
Celebrating 20 Years of Visual Communication0
Corrigendum to Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement0
Chronotopic layers of virtual authenticity: decoding Lil Miquela ’s multi-faceted digital identity0
Book review: Multimodal Texts in Disciplinary Education: A Comprehensive Framework0
Investigating multimodality, reception and civic participation on YouTube: a case study of the documentary ‘Greece: The Hidden War’0
Visual realism and character identification in science comics: an empirical study testing McCloud’s ‘masking effect’ theory0
Designing and sharing travelogues on Chinese WeChat Moments : a social semiotic analysis of Nine Picture Limit0
Exploring the distinction between populism through and by the media from a visual perspective: representat0
Visualizing dementia and stigma: a scoping review of the literature0
Creative and visual communication of health research: development of a graphic novel to share children’s neighbourhood perspectives of COVID-19 lockdowns in Aotearoa New Zealand0
Rethinking visual criminalization: news images and the mediated spacetime of crime events0
Reworking signs: multi-semiotic hybrids across systems in Chinese environmental posters0
Resemiotization: tracing the movement of resources in landscape architectural design trajectories0
Computer-mediated representations: a qualitative examination of algorithmic vision and visual style0
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Cluttered screens: an eye-tracking study of visual attention allocation among viewers of TV news0
Book review: Genre Networks: Intersemiotic Relations in Digital Science Communication PÉREZ-LLANTADACARMENLUZÓNMARÍA-JOSÉ, Genre Networks: Intersemiotic Relations in Digital Science Communication. New0
Book review: Multimodal Experiences across Cultures, Spaces and Identities0
Linking multimodal cohesion, gaze behaviour and learning outcome in educational videos0
An Australian agri-industrial landscape sublime0
Book review: Visual Politics in the Global South VenetiAnastasiaRoviscoMaria (eds) Visual Politics in the Global South. Chichester: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 323 pp. ISBN: 978-3-031-22781-30
Gender bias in movie posters through the lens of Spatial Agency Bias0
The effect of typographic text presentation on reader perceptions of importance in bilingual Māori–English picturebooks0
‘Let’s buy money before buying food’: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of WhatsApp memes on the Nigerian Naira redesign policy0
Visual communication and the management of passenger conduct: A visual analysis of transit etiquette posters by Japanese railway companies0
The smart home: a visual analysis0
Fear generation in the multimodal communication of sexual and reproductive health to Malaysian adolescents0
Computational approaches to the figurative and plastic dimensions of images0
More than a place to eat: visual aesthetics and educational policies in Chilean school dining halls (1912–2020)0
A scanner darkly: augmented reality face filters as algorithmic images0
Visual-related conflicts in close relationships0
An observational sketch essay of an undocumented immigrant hunger strike in Brussels0
Judging a book by its cover: comparing visual grammar analysis of book covers with an eye-tracking study on viewer perceptions0
‘Tiny canvases, big tales’: deciphering the concept of tax through Japanese children’s postcard drawings0
The chop suey letterform and cultural hegemony in global representation of visual Chineseness0
Authentic Roman type: historical legacies in contemporary Rome’s city brand0
Showing climate action: exploring Fridays for Future Germany’s visual activism on Flickr0
Facing cancer: metaphors in medical animation films0
Multimodal resources in the ‘Get It Together’ reproductive health campaign in Nigeria0
Book review: Photographs and the Practice of History EDWARDSELIZABETH, Photographs and the Practice of History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, xii + 170 pp. ISBN 978 1 3501 2064 8 (hbk)0
Taking a knee: Haunted memetic counter-activism0
The rhythms of cancer survivorship0
Viral climate imagery: examining popular climate visuals on Twitter0
Practice and product: a social semiotic approach to visual communication in sexual and reproductive health promotion0
Drawn into the future: The epistemic work of visual scenarios in the configuration of human–robot encounters0
Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication0
Performing different forms of ‘sociable authenticity’ in five bakery shops in Sweden using the semla pastry as a prominent multimodal resource0
A blind spot in AI-powered logo makers: visual design principles0
Mapping the emergence of visual biases in journalistic interactive visualizations0
Book review: The Space between Look and Read: Designing Complementary Meaning0
The things they are a-changin': reinventing daily objects during the chilean 2019 revolt0
Book review: Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design0
Choreo-graphic design: reappraising dance notation0
A city of two tales: multimodal metaphorical and metonymic representation of the Olympics and the host country in two official Olympic mascot promotional videos0
Superhero contra butcher: Zelensky and Putin in political cartoons on Russian aggression0
Matter, meaning and semiotics0
The eye at hand: when visually impaired people distribute ‘seeing’ with sensing AI0
Book review: Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem0
Logico-semantic relations between spoken text and slides’ visual elements in student presentations conducted online in the English as a Foreign Language context0
Evading Big Brother: Using visual methods to understand children’s perception of sensors and interest in subverting digital surveillance0
Visual Communication is proud to announce its Early Career Research Scholarship0
Editorial: Information Is Ugly0
Understanding emotional responses to visual aesthetic artefacts: the SECMEA mechanisms0
‘Please tell us how you can volunteer your contributions to the school’: a social semiotic analysis of school websites0
Intersemiotic emergence in sketchbook-mediated design learning0
Representing Her Trajectory: reflections on an arts-based research on women migration and data visualization0
Book review: Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks ArizpeEvelynNobleKateStylesMorag, Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks. London: Ro0
A social semiotic study of public institutional websites focusing on teenage pregnancy in Brazil0
The optometry of visual communication: the Museum of Vision Science0
Book review: Women in Social Semiotics and SFL: Making a Difference MAAGERØEVAMULVADRUTHTØNNESSENELISE SEIP (eds), Women in Social Semiotics and SFL: Making a Difference. New York, NY: Routledge, 20210
A down-to-earth visual representation of contemporary China: analysing the video game Chinese Parents0
Book review: Literacy and Identity through Streaming Media: Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix0
The clarity and correctness of visualized thrust actions: a description and insights from users and experts0
Children’s comprehension of time and their interpretation of event relations in narrative film: the tangled case of flashbacks0
Book review: Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectives on Organization Studies RavelliLouiseVan LeeuwenTheoHöllererMarkus AJancsaryDennis (eds), Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectiv0
Net icons and memetic imagery of protest in online activism0
Sculpting the interpersonal: towards a social semiotic framework for analysing interpersonal meaning in statues0
Profiling visual illness narratives: an exploration of online medical crowdfunding0
Visual disinformation and audience reception: a comparative analysis of media richness, sophistication, and emotional engagement in Chinese social media0
Script-switching in Japanese pop culture: a social semiotic multimodal approach0
Book review: Experimental Games: Critique, Play and Design in the Age of Gamification JAGODAPATRICK, Experimental Games: Critique, Play and Design in the0
Semiotics of the black box: on the rhetorics of algorithmic images0
‘And knowing is half the battle’: revisiting public service announcements and child safety lessons of visual communication from the G.I. JOE animated ser0
Toxic tours and coastal contestation: a photo-essay of the local politics of desalination in California0
From researchers to academic entrepreneurs: a diachronic analysis of the visual representation of academics in university annual reports0
Generational differences in viewing behaviors: an eye-tracking study0
Crafting fantasies of dominance: visual framing of Chinese and US leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 20210
Book review: Jr Martin and Len Unsworth, Reading Images for Knowledge-Building: Analyzing Infographics in School Science0
Book review: Multimodality and Identity0
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