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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Seeing’ music from manga: visualizing music with embodied mechanisms of musical experience28
Book review: Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and Application16
The epistemological commitments of modes: opportunities and challenges for science learning11
Design and repair: from object conservation to material transformation10
Visual Communication is proud to announce its second Early Career Research Scholarship10
Your smile works: understanding smiling face emojis in social media interactions8
Book review: Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Multimodal Phenomena5
Learning through mess: Sensemaking visual communication practices in a UK multidisciplinary applied health study5
Book review: Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design5
Misconceptions: a multimodal study of Danish contraception information5
‘Foodstagramming’ in early 20th-century postcards: a transhistorical perspective5
Book review: Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media BoukoCatherine, Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media. New Yo5
Photographic ways of seeing: corporeal defamiliarizations within the mirror medium5
Visual themes and frames of the Rohingya crisis: newspaper content from three countries neighboring Myanmar5
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of city as text: investigation of meaning metafunctions of Rasht’s Imam Khomeini Street4
Visual representation of the menopause in Iran4
Book review: tumblr4
Book review: Shifts Toward Image-Centricity in Contemporary Multimodal Practices4
Applying health design thinking to uncover actors in the sustenance of health and wellbeing during hotel quarantine in kuwait4
Analyzing picturebooks: semiotic, literary, and artistic frameworks4
Sculpting Foucauldian power in Game of Thrones as a transmedia project: a systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis4
Female archetypes in car advertising: the case of Audi4
Typicality effect in data graphs3
Landcare and landscapes and accidental beauty: failing digital technologies and the gaze of child researchers3
Forging New Narratives3
Book review: Multimodal Literacy in School Science: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy3
‘All your image are belong to us’: heritagization, archiving and historicization of memes3
Book review: Empirical Multimodality Research: Methods, Evaluations, Implications3
Legitimation in documentary: modes of representation and legitimating strategies in The Lockdown: One Month in Wuhan3
Going against the grain? Appraising the aesthetic labour of male beauty influencers on Instagram3
A computer-assisted analysis of image representations of obesity: comparing UK news content with the World Obesity Federation Image Bank3
Book review: Flags, Color and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity and Critique3
Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement3
The Riverine Archive: Nausea and information loss on the neoliberal ship of fools3
Visualizing political communication on Spanish social media: an analysis of Andalusian political parties’ communication on Instagram3
Michel Pastoureau and the history of visual communication3
‘Imagine talking about politics in a kids’ game’: Making sense of #BLM in Nintendo’s Splatoon 23
In praise of visual representation: an inquiry into text analysis and network visualization for charting scientific communities2
Representing cervical cancer in a government social media health campaign in China: moralizing and abstracting women’s sexual health2
Drawing on borders: a large-scale framing analysis of coronavirus in early UK news maps2
Saudi women driving: images, stereotyping and digital media2
Politics of visual discourse in China: the corruption cartoon2
Visualizing invisible information: a scoping review of present findings, challenges and opportunities on tactile graphics design2
The urban aesthetics of graffiti murals: reproducing wall space in China’s urban renewal2
Relentless Melt: visual trends and aesthetics of contemporary visual music films in Hong Kong2
Visually informed accounts: instructed achievements during planetarium visits and sky observations2
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 Media2
Artists’ books as a qualitative research methodology in multidisciplinary contexts1
Book review: Gesture and Multimodality in Second Language Acquisition: A Research Guide1
Book review: Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension1
Visual communication and mental health1
Fictional mapping: the nature of cartography in film production1
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
Book review: Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s1
Liquid power: reading the infinity pool as a global semioscape1
Illustrating Stravinsky: integration of new media design in live Philharmonic Orchestra performance1
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
A Mama for Owen: re-addressing adoption creatively in an accordion of visual parallelism1
Book review: Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space1
China’s Instagram war on COVID-19: picturing healthcare workers and governance in Xinhua’s photographs1
Connecting stars and microcosms: visualization bridging astronomy and polaritonics1
Drone views: a multimodal ethnographic perspective1
Tailings and tracings: using art and social science to explore the limits of visual methods at mining and industrial ruins1
How existing literary translation fits into film adaptations: the subtitling of neologisms in Harry Potter from a multimodal perspective1
Literate matterings: young artists creating and talking about photography and meaning1
Football fan choreographies as multimodal performances1
International, innovative, multimodal and representative? The geographies, methods, modes and aims present in two visual communication journals0
Facing aging: Face Shadow0
Corrigendum to Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement0
‘Let’s buy money before buying food’: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of WhatsApp memes on the Nigerian Naira redesign policy0
Rhythm in literary apps0
Book review: Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes – A New Cartography of Borders and Migration0
Understanding emotional responses to visual aesthetic artefacts: the SECMEA mechanisms0
Visualizing dementia and stigma: a scoping review of the literature0
Intersemiotic emergence in sketchbook-mediated design learning0
Resemiotization: tracing the movement of resources in landscape architectural design trajectories0
Book review: Communicating Knowledge Visually: Will Burtin’s Scientific Approach to Information Design0
Visual narratives of environmental change: collective memory and identity at New Zealand heritage sites0
From researchers to academic entrepreneurs: a diachronic analysis of the visual representation of academics in university annual reports0
Exploring the distinction between populism through and by the media from a visual perspective: representations of German politicians on magazine covers of Der Spiegel and Compa0
Facing cancer: metaphors in medical animation films0
Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication0
The eye at hand: when visually impaired people distribute ‘seeing’ with sensing AI0
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
Corpus-based insights into multimodality and genre in primary school science diagrams0
Signs of #self: a Peircean semiotic framework for theorizing self-(re)presentations on Instagram0
The rhythms of cancer survivorship0
Book review: Genre Networks: Intersemiotic Relations in Digital Science Communication0
Afterword0
Evading Big Brother: Using visual methods to understand children’s perception of sensors and interest in subverting digital surveillance0
Book review: Experimental Games: Critique, Play and Design in the Age of Gamification0
A scanner darkly: augmented reality face filters as algorithmic images0
Generational differences in viewing behaviors: an eye-tracking study0
Net icons and memetic imagery of protest in online activism0
The things they are a-changin': reinventing daily objects during the chilean 2019 revolt0
Book review0
Self-presentation strategies and the visual framing of political leaders on Instagram: evidence from the eventful 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections0
Editorial: Information Is Ugly0
Performing different forms of ‘sociable authenticity’ in five bakery shops in Sweden using the semla pastry as a prominent multimodal resource0
Experiencing multimodal rhetoric and argumentation in political advertisements: a study of how people respond to the rhetoric of multimodal communication0
Exploring the contemporary Moon Under Water through illustration: nostalgia and the power of the image0
Visual communication and the management of passenger conduct: A visual analysis of transit etiquette posters by Japanese railway companies0
Introduction: hyper-visuality: images in the era of social platforms, digital archives and computational economies0
Authentic Roman type: historical legacies in contemporary Rome’s city brand0
Logico-semantic relations between spoken text and slides’ visual elements in student presentations conducted online in the English as a Foreign Language context0
Book review: The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power0
Book review: Making Sense: Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning0
The operation of différance in a student-produced digital video: insights into differing and deferring signifier operations and relations in multimodal discourse0
Visual-related conflicts in close relationships0
Imaging cancer: image-based diagnostic communication in radiologists’ embodied cognition0
The mediatic dimension of images: visual semiotics faced with Gerhard Richter’s artwork0
Taking a knee: Haunted memetic counter-activism0
An observational sketch essay of an undocumented immigrant hunger strike in Brussels0
Representing Her Trajectory: reflections on an arts-based research on women migration and data visualization0
Book review: The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation0
Designing and sharing travelogues on Chinese WeChat Moments: a social semiotic analysis of Nine Picture Limit0
A blind spot in AI-powered logo makers: visual design principles0
Showing climate action: exploring Fridays for Future Germany’s visual activism on Flickr0
Evaluating animentary’s potential as a rhetorical genre0
Script-switching in Japanese pop culture: a social semiotic multimodal approach0
Fear generation in the multimodal communication of sexual and reproductive health to Malaysian adolescents0
The optometry of visual communication: the Museum of Vision Science0
Book review: Photographs and the Practice of History0
Book review: The Aesthetics of Scientific Data Representation: More than Pretty Pictures0
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
Book review: Women in Social Semiotics and SFL: Making a Difference0
Gender bias in movie posters through the lens of Spatial Agency Bias0
Celebrating 20 Years of Visual Communication0
Design timescapes: futuring through visual thinking0
Book review: Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design0
Book review: Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem0
Semiotics of the black box: on the rhetorics of algorithmic images0
Superhero contra butcher: Zelensky and Putin in political cartoons on Russian aggression0
Book review: Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectives on Organization Studies RavelliLouiseVan LeeuwenTheoHöllererMarkus AJancsaryDennis (eds), Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectiv0
Book review: Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks0
A social semiotic study of public institutional websites focusing on teenage pregnancy in Brazil0
The clarity and correctness of visualized thrust actions: a description and insights from users and experts0
The Rijksmuseum’s Slavery exhibition, 5 June–29 August 20210
Computing colorism: skin tone in online retail imagery0
Book review: Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century0
Alien domesticity: representing home during a pandemic0
Drawn into the future: The epistemic work of visual scenarios in the configuration of human–robot encounters0
Toxic tours and coastal contestation: a photo-essay of the local politics of desalination in California0
The politics of typographic placemaking: the cases of TilburgsAns and Dubai Font0
Opening up semiotic spaces for gender expression: a case study of the construction of gender in Australian award-winning early childhood picture books0
Book review: Essentials of Visual Interpretation0
From photo documentation to photo diagrams: a technique to make civic ecologies present and legible0
Construing chemistry knowledge through images: a social semiotics perspective0
Tracing The Shapes of Multimodal Rhetoric: Showing the Epistemic Powers of Visualization0
Walking through the city soundscape: an audio-visual analysis of sensory experience for people with psychosis0
Connecting in the Gulf: digital inclusion for Aboriginal families on Mornington Island0
More than a place to eat: visual aesthetics and educational policies in Chilean school dining halls (1912–2020)0
Book review: Multimodal Texts in Disciplinary Education: A Comprehensive Framework0
Exploring game grammars: a sociosemiotic account of young people’s game-making practices0
Book review: Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime, and Punishment in Visual Media0
Multimodal resources in the ‘Get It Together’ reproductive health campaign in Nigeria0
Visual realism and character identification in science comics: an empirical study testing McCloud’s ‘masking effect’ theory0
The rhetoric of multimodal communication0
Rethinking visual criminalization: news images and the mediated spacetime of crime events0
The legitimation of screenshots as visual evidence in social media: YouTube videos spreading misinformation and disinformation0
Book review: The Space between Look and Read: Designing Complementary Meaning0
An Australian agri-industrial landscape sublime0
Sculpting the interpersonal: towards a social semiotic framework for analysing interpersonal meaning in statues0
Practice and product: a social semiotic approach to visual communication in sexual and reproductive health promotion0
Visual Communication is proud to announce its Early Career Research Scholarship0
Matter, meaning and semiotics0
Touching heritage: embodied politics in children’s photography0
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
The smart home: a visual analysis0
Book review: Jr Martin and Len Unsworth, Reading Images for Knowledge-Building: Analyzing Infographics in School Science0
Editorial: in memoriam Martin Thomas0
Photography as play: examining constant photographing and photo sharing among young people0
Book review: Multimodal Experiences across Cultures, Spaces and Identities0
Analysing gender fluidity representation in perfume bottles with heterosexual matrix theory0
Book review: Multimodality and Identity0
Book review: Multimodality Across Classrooms: Learning About and Through Different Modalities0
Computational approaches to the figurative and plastic dimensions of images0
‘Domani a quest’ora potresti essere qui’: multimodal practices for representing temporality in destination advertising0
Let there be . . . visual optimal innovations: making visual meaning through Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam0
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