Visual Communication

Forty years of IKEA kitchens and the rise of a neoliberal control of domestic space

Photorealistic computer-generated images are difficult to distinguish from digital photographs: a case study with professional photographers and photo-editors

Multimodal content analysis: expanding analytical approaches to content analysis:

Insertion or voice-off in rendition of graphic codes: an experiment in Persian dubbing:

Building knowledge through images in physics

Bringing metaphors back to the streets: a corpus-based study for the identification and interpretation of rhetorical figures in street art:

Special Issue: The visual politics of the human

What does knowledge look like? Interpreting diagrams as contemporary hieroglyphics

Shifting toward a humanized perspective? Visual framing analysis of the coverage of refugees on CNN and Spiegel Online before and after the iconic photo publication of Alan Kurdi:

Photojournalism as political encounter: western news photography in the 2015 migration ‘crisis’

The use of cartoon illustration for the assessment of social science concepts

Jihadist visual communication strategy: ISIL’s hostage executions video production

Utopia, nostalgia, and femininity: visually promoting the Chinese Dream

Image substitutes and visual fake history: historical images of atrocity of the Ukrainian famine 1932–1933 on social media:

The (in)disputable ‘power’ of images of outrage: public acknowledgement, emotional reaction, and image recognition

Multimodal engagement strategy focusing on a multi-layered voice concept: theory of persuasion in Japanese insurance TV commercials:

“You are what you are in this world”: visual framing and exemplification in media coverage of the Guttenfelder Instagram photographs from North Korea

On the track of visual style: a diachronic study of page composition in comics and its functional motivation:

The use of statistics to define taxonomies of film voices: a practical approach to documentary classification:

Aurora musis amica1: Metaphoric conceptualization of depression in online visual representations:

Everything in place: peace and harmony in an overcrowded home

Investigating intersemiosis: a systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis of the relationship between language and gesture in classroom discourse:

Creating engagement with solutions visuals: testing the effects of problem-oriented versus solution-oriented photojournalism:

Signs of understanding and turns-as-actions: a multimodal analysis of deaf–hearing interaction:

People of immigrant and refugee background sharing experiences of mental health recovery: reflections and recommendations on using digital storytelling:

‘Writing’ oneself into tragedy: visual user practices and spectatorship of the Alan Kurdi images on Instagram:

Studies in the efficacy of motion graphics: the relation between expository motion graphics and the presence of naïve realism

Visual transcriptions as socio-technical assemblages:

Changes in working practices in a rural community of Romania

The graphics of carving

Faceless government: civic action in media photographs during the Venezuelan anti-governmental protests of 2017

Heroes or criminals: discursive representation of cancer patients in health awareness advertisements:

Refugee artists and memories of displacement: a visual semiotics analysis

Exploring the affordances of digital storytelling in a media-arts restorative justice program

From ‘no dogs here!’ to ‘beware of the dog!’: restricting dog signs as a reflection of social norms:

On humanitarian virality: Kony 2012, or, the rise and fall of a pictorial artifact in the digital age

Accelerating semogenesis: an ecosocial approach to photography

Animating the subjugated past: digital greeting cards as a form of counter-memory:

An aesthetics of the human: Peru’s Ojo que Llora memorial

Warmth portrayals to recruit students into science majors

Photographic and cinematic appropriation of atrocity images from Cambodia: auto-genocide in Western museum culture and The Missing Picture

The monument to the children of Villatina: commemorating innocent child victims in the context of lethally stigmatized youth in Colombia

The shared stories that written words tell when no one is reading: exploring modality in typographic landscapes as an ecosocial semiotic system:

Human rights collectives as visual experts: the case of Syrian Archive

Scenarios of countercultural representation: an analysis of inventory books’ visualities:

The production of narrative through static imagery: examples from a peculiar medieval illustration