Visual Communication

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Visual Communication is proud to announce its second Early Career Research Scholarship	31
Design and repair: from object conservation to material transformation	24
Book review: Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design	20
Your smile works: understanding smiling face emojis in social media interactions	10
Book review: Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media BoukoCatherine, Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media. New Yo	8
Insights into the black box of multimodal meaning-making: investigating the reception of multimodality empirically	7
Book review: Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and Application	7
Visual representation of the menopause in Iran	6
Visual themes and frames of the Rohingya crisis: newspaper content from three countries neighboring Myanmar	6
‘Foodstagramming’ in early 20th-century postcards: a transhistorical perspective	6
Photographic ways of seeing: corporeal defamiliarizations within the mirror medium	6
Misconceptions: a multimodal study of Danish contraception information	6
Learning through mess: Sensemaking visual communication practices in a UK multidisciplinary applied health study	6
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 Colleg	6
Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump	6
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of city as text: investigation of meaning metafunctions of Rasht’s Imam Khomeini Street	5
Book review: Shifts Toward Image-Centricity in Contemporary Multimodal Practices	5
Sculpting Foucauldian power in Game of Thrones as a transmedia project: a systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis	5
Book review: tumblr	5
An audience reception study of danmu-enabled humour in multimodal texts	5
Multimodality and Reception Studies	5
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
Analyzing picturebooks: semiotic, literary, and artistic frameworks	4
Applying health design thinking to uncover actors in the sustenance of health and wellbeing during hotel quarantine in kuwait	4
Typicality effect in data graphs	4

Female archetypes in car advertising: the case of Audi	4
Branding of top Pakistani universities: a multisemiotic analysis of university logos on X	3
A computer-assisted analysis of image representations of obesity: comparing UK news content with the World Obesity Federation Image Bank	3
The Riverine Archive: Nausea and information loss on the neoliberal ship of fools	3
Going against the grain? Appraising the aesthetic labour of male beauty influencers on Instagram	3
‘All your image are belong to us’: heritagization, archiving and historicization of memes	3
Operationalizing the male gaze: reconstructing Laura Mulvey’s analysis of visual pleasure	3
Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement	3
Forging New Narratives	3
Visualizing political communication on Spanish social media: an analysis of Andalusian political parties’ communication on Instagram	3
Book review: Flags, Color and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity and Critique	3
Book review: Empirical Multimodality Research: Methods, Evaluations, Implications PflaegingJanaWildfeuerJaninaBatemanJohn, Empirical Multimodality Research: Methods, Evaluations, Implications. Berlin:	3
Landcare and landscapes and accidental beauty: failing digital technologies and the gaze of child researchers	3
Michel Pastoureau and the history of visual communication	2
‘Imagine talking about politics in a kids’ game’: Making sense of #BLM in Nintendo’s Splatoon 2	2
Visually informed accounts: instructed achievements during planetarium visits and sky observations	2
In praise of visual representation: an inquiry into text analysis and network visualization for charting scientific communities	2
Book review: Multimodal Literacy in School Science: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy	2
Revitalizing dry stone heritage through collaborative visual ethnography	2
Humor, culture, and compliance in health crisis communication: a multimodal analysis of government-produced memes for a local community during a global pandemic	2
Relentless Melt: visual trends and aesthetics of contemporary visual music films in Hong Kong	2
Dancing with scissors: collage as visual design scholarship	2
Representing cervical cancer in a government social media health campaign in China: moralizing and abstracting women’s sexual health	2
Football fan choreographies as multimodal performances	1
‘Domani a quest’ora potresti essere qui’: multimodal practices for representing temporality in destination advertising	1
China’s Instagram war on COVID-19: picturing healthcare workers and governance in Xinhua’s photographs	1
Connecting stars and microcosms: visualization bridging astronomy and polaritonics	1
Exploring the contemporary Moon Under Water through illustration: nostalgia and the power of the image	1
Visual design for sexual and reproductive health promotion: a global perspective	1
Amplification of conventional female gender displays and reinforcement of Asian stereotypes in user-generated Artificial Intelligence (AI) images on social media	1
Visual communication and mental health	1
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 Ill	1
Literate matterings: young artists creating and talking about photography and meaning	1
Fictional mapping: the nature of cartography in film production	1
The role of rhythm in science-animated videos: construing entities and bridging across different semiotic modes	1
Introduction: hyper-visuality: images in the era of social platforms, digital archives and computational economies	1
Book review: Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s	1
The Rijksmuseum’s Slavery exhibition, 5 June–29 August 2021	1
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
Illustrating Stravinsky: integration of new media design in live Philharmonic Orchestra performance	1
A Mama for Owen: re-addressing adoption creatively in an accordion of visual parallelism	1
The urban aesthetics of graffiti murals: reproducing wall space in China’s urban renewal	1
Visualizing invisible information: a scoping review of present findings, challenges and opportunities on tactile graphics design	1
Drawing on borders: a large-scale framing analysis of coronavirus in early UK news maps	1
Visual framing of climate change during natural disasters at home and abroad: an analysis of British news	1
Alien domesticity: representing home during a pandemic	1
From ‘good for her’ to ‘you in danger, girl’: text–image relationships in GIF reply posts	1
(Re)constructed identities in the social media discourse of Nigeria’s #EndSARS	1
Artists’ books as a qualitative research methodology in multidisciplinary contexts	1
Book review: Gesture and Multimodality in Second Language Acquisition: A Research Guide	1

Drone views: a multimodal ethnographic perspective	1
Feminine power and Daoism: a review of Ba Wang Bian	1
Tailings and tracings: using art and social science to explore the limits of visual methods at mining and industrial ruins	1
Exploring the ecosystem of meaning: representation of gesture and its contribution to the visual communication of attitude in South African picture books	1
How existing literary translation fits into film adaptations: the subtitling of neologisms in Harry Potter from a multimodal perspective	1
Intersemiotic emergence in sketchbook-mediated design learning	0
More than a place to eat: visual aesthetics and educational policies in Chilean school dining halls (1912–2020)	0
Drawn into the future: The epistemic work of visual scenarios in the configuration of human–robot encounters	0
The politics of typographic placemaking: the cases of TilburgsAns and Dubai Font	0
Book review: Communicating Knowledge Visually: Will Burtin’s Scientific Approach to Information Design	0
A down-to-earth visual representation of contemporary China: analysing the video game Chinese Parents	0
Facing cancer: metaphors in medical animation films	0
Chronotopic layers of virtual authenticity: decoding Lil Miquela ’s multi-faceted digital identity	0
Visual disinformation and audience reception: a comparative analysis of media richness, sophistication, and emotional engagement in Chinese social media	0
Book review: Literacy and Identity through Streaming Media: Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix	0
Net icons and memetic imagery of protest in online activism	0
Connecting in the Gulf: digital inclusion for Aboriginal families on Mornington Island	0
An Australian agri-industrial landscape sublime	0
Reworking signs: multi-semiotic hybrids across systems in Chinese environmental posters	0
Practice and product: a social semiotic approach to visual communication in sexual and reproductive health promotion	0
Children’s comprehension of time and their interpretation of event relations in narrative film: the tangled case of flashbacks	0
The eye at hand: when visually impaired people distribute ‘seeing’ with sensing AI	0
Script-switching in Japanese pop culture: a social semiotic multimodal approach	0
Investigating multimodality, reception and civic participation on YouTube: a case study of the documentary ‘Greece: The Hidden War’	0
Cluttered screens: an eye-tracking study of visual attention allocation among viewers of TV news	0
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 Press	0
Generational differences in viewing behaviors: an eye-tracking study	0
Toxic tours and coastal contestation: a photo-essay of the local politics of desalination in California	0
‘Let’s buy money before buying food’: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of WhatsApp memes on the Nigerian Naira redesign policy	0
Editorial: Information Is Ugly	0
Book review: Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design	0
Visual Communication is proud to announce its Early Career Research Scholarship	0
Designing and sharing travelogues on Chinese WeChat Moments : a social semiotic analysis of Nine Picture Limit	0
Crafting fantasies of dominance: visual framing of Chinese and US leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021	0
Book review: Experimental Games: Critique, Play and Design in the Age of Gamification	0
Performing different forms of ‘sociable authenticity’ in five bakery shops in Sweden using the semla pastry as a prominent multimodal resource	0
A social semiotic study of public institutional websites focusing on teenage pregnancy in Brazil	0
A three-step manual for creating a political villain: the case of Jeremy Corbyn	0
Analysing gender fluidity representation in perfume bottles with heterosexual matrix theory	0
Design timescapes: futuring through visual thinking	0
Representing Her Trajectory: reflections on an arts-based research on women migration and data visualization	0
Computing colorism: skin tone in online retail imagery	0
An observational sketch essay of an undocumented immigrant hunger strike in Brussels	0
Celebrating 20 Years of Visual Communication	0
The effect of typographic text presentation on reader perceptions of importance in bilingual Māori–English picturebooks	0
The optometry of visual communication: the Museum of Vision Science	0
Book review: Multimodal Texts in Disciplinary Education: A Comprehensive Framework	0
Linking multimodal cohesion, gaze behaviour and learning outcome in educational videos	0
A blind spot in AI-powered logo makers: visual design principles	0
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, 2021	0
Multimodal resources in the ‘Get It Together’ reproductive health campaign in Nigeria	0
Deconstructing a kaleidoscope of semiotic modes and audience perception of multimodality in advertising discourse	0
Book review: Photographs and the Practice of History	0
The rhythms of cancer survivorship	0
Rhythm in literary apps	0
Book review: Genre Networks: Intersemiotic Relations in Digital Science Communication	0
Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication	0
Sculpting the interpersonal: towards a social semiotic framework for analysing interpersonal meaning in statues	0
Evading Big Brother: Using visual methods to understand children’s perception of sensors and interest in subverting digital surveillance	0
Understanding emotional responses to visual aesthetic artefacts: the SECMEA mechanisms	0
Afterword	0
Matter, meaning and semiotics	0
The clarity and correctness of visualized thrust actions: a description and insights from users and experts	0
Semiotics of the black box: on the rhetorics of algorithmic images	0
Book review: Multimodal Experiences across Cultures, Spaces and Identities	0
Fear generation in the multimodal communication of sexual and reproductive health to Malaysian adolescents	0
Book review: Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem	0
Book review: Visual Politics in the Global South VenetiAnastasiaRoviscoMaria (eds) Visual Politics in the Global South. Chichester: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 323 pp. ISBN: 978-3-031-22781-3	0
Walking through the city soundscape: an audio-visual analysis of sensory experience for people with psychosis	0
Taking a knee: Haunted memetic counter-activism	0
Book review: Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century	0
Corpus-based insights into multimodality and genre in primary school science diagrams	0
Computer-mediated representations: a qualitative examination of algorithmic vision and visual style	0
Viral climate imagery: examining popular climate visuals on Twitter	0
Visual communication and the management of passenger conduct: A visual analysis of transit etiquette posters by Japanese railway companies	0
Imaging cancer: image-based diagnostic communication in radiologists’ embodied cognition	0
Editorial: in memoriam Martin Thomas	0
Book review: Multimodality and Identity	0
Construing chemistry knowledge through images: a social semiotics perspective	0
Opening up semiotic spaces for gender expression: a case study of the construction of gender in Australian award-winning early childhood picture books	0

From researchers to academic entrepreneurs: a diachronic analysis of the visual representation of academics in university annual reports	0
The chop suey letterform and cultural hegemony in global representation of visual Chineseness	0
Corrigendum to Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement	0
Resemiotization: tracing the movement of resources in landscape architectural design trajectories	0
The mediatic dimension of images: visual semiotics faced with Gerhard Richter’s artwork	0
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 Compa	0
‘Please tell us how you can volunteer your contributions to the school’: a social semiotic analysis of school websites	0
Rethinking visual criminalization: news images and the mediated spacetime of crime events	0
Visualizing dementia and stigma: a scoping review of the literature	0
Book review: The Space between Look and Read: Designing Complementary Meaning	0
From photo documentation to photo diagrams: a technique to make civic ecologies present and legible	0
Visual realism and character identification in science comics: an empirical study testing McCloud’s ‘masking effect’ theory	0
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 Zealand	0
Visual-related conflicts in close relationships	0
Authentic Roman type: historical legacies in contemporary Rome’s city brand	0
360-degree ethnography: affordances and limitations in place-centric research	0
Profiling visual illness narratives: an exploration of online medical crowdfunding	0
Visual narratives of environmental change: collective memory and identity at New Zealand heritage sites	0
‘Tiny canvases, big tales’: deciphering the concept of tax through Japanese children’s postcard drawings	0
Mapping the emergence of visual biases in journalistic interactive visualizations	0
Showing climate action: exploring Fridays for Future Germany’s visual activism on Flickr	0
Book review: Jr Martin and Len Unsworth, Reading Images for Knowledge-Building: Analyzing Infographics in School Science	0
The things they are a-changin': reinventing daily objects during the chilean 2019 revolt	0
The smart home: a visual analysis	0
The legitimation of screenshots as visual evidence in social media: YouTube videos spreading misinformation and disinformation	0
Visual compositing: engagement, interpretation and visualization of Holocaust memory in digital culture	0
Superhero contra butcher: Zelensky and Putin in political cartoons on Russian aggression	0
Gender bias in movie posters through the lens of Spatial Agency Bias	0
Book review: Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectives on Organization Studies RavelliLouiseVan LeeuwenTheoHöllererMarkus AJancsaryDennis (eds), Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectiv	0
Computational approaches to the figurative and plastic dimensions of images	0
Facing aging: Face Shadow	0
A scanner darkly: augmented reality face filters as algorithmic images	0
Logico-semantic relations between spoken text and slides’ visual elements in student presentations conducted online in the English as a Foreign Language context	0
Book review: Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes – A New Cartography of Borders and Migration	0
Book review: Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks	0