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#OnlineFirst "Operationalizing the male gaze: reconstructing Laura Mulvey’s analysis of visual pleasure" by Warren Buckland. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1470...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
#OnlineFirst "Operationalizing the male gaze: reconstructing Laura Mulvey’s analysis of visual pleasure" by Warren Buckland. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1470...
Visual Communication Vol. 24, No. 4, November 1, 2025 is now available online!
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Visual Communication Vol. 24, No. 4, November 1, 2025 is now available online!
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Online first: "Operationalizing the male gaze: reconstructing Laura Mulvey’s analysis of visual pleasure" by Warren Buckland.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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#OnlineFirst Open Access: "Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald #Trump" by Christopher Hart and Steve Strudwick doi.org/10.1177/1470...
Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump - Christopher Hart, Steve Strudwick, 2025
The communicative style of right-wing populism is characterized by embodied modes of performance as much as verbal stylistic features. This article investigates...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#OnlineFirst Open Access: "Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald #Trump" by Christopher Hart and Steve Strudwick doi.org/10.1177/1470...
OnlineFirst: ‘Tiny canvases, big tales’: deciphering the concept of tax through Japanese children’s postcard drawings by Xiaoben Yuan: doi.org/10.1177/1470...
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OnlineFirst: ‘Tiny canvases, big tales’: deciphering the concept of tax through Japanese children’s postcard drawings by Xiaoben Yuan: doi.org/10.1177/1470...
OnlineFirst: "Revitalizing dry stone heritage through collaborative visual ethnography" by Ricard Espelt @ricardespelt.bsky.social, Enric Senabre Hidalgo, and Rosa Cerarols @soclarinxols.bsky.social
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October 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
OnlineFirst: "Revitalizing dry stone heritage through collaborative visual ethnography" by Ricard Espelt @ricardespelt.bsky.social, Enric Senabre Hidalgo, and Rosa Cerarols @soclarinxols.bsky.social
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How can we better understand the #blackBox of #algorithmicVision? A recent study by @tjthomson.bsky.social offers some answers! "Computer-mediated representations: a qualitative examination of algorithmic vision and visual style," journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (📖 open access)
October 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
How can we better understand the #blackBox of #algorithmicVision? A recent study by @tjthomson.bsky.social offers some answers! "Computer-mediated representations: a qualitative examination of algorithmic vision and visual style," journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (📖 open access)
Open access: "The effect of typographic text presentation on reader perceptions of importance in bilingual Māori–English picturebooks" by Nicholas Vanderschantz, Nicola Daly, and Vouchleang San: doi.org/10.1177/1470...
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Open access: "The effect of typographic text presentation on reader perceptions of importance in bilingual Māori–English picturebooks" by Nicholas Vanderschantz, Nicola Daly, and Vouchleang San: doi.org/10.1177/1470...
Online First (open access): "360-degree #ethnography: #affordances and limitations in place-centric research" by Matteo Baraldo, Francesca Dolcetti, and Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco
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September 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Online First (open access): "360-degree #ethnography: #affordances and limitations in place-centric research" by Matteo Baraldo, Francesca Dolcetti, and Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco
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Online First: "Feminine power and Daoism: a review of Ba Wang Bian" by Xiao Lu (orcid.org/0009-0002-08...)
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September 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Online First: "Feminine power and Daoism: a review of Ba Wang Bian" by Xiao Lu (orcid.org/0009-0002-08...)
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Online First: "Profiling visual illness narratives: an exploration of online medical crowdfunding" by Mingfei Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, and Shaojing Sun
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September 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Online First: "Profiling visual illness narratives: an exploration of online medical crowdfunding" by Mingfei Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, and Shaojing Sun
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A three-step guide to creating political villains: an intriguing new open-access visual essay in @viscomjournal.bsky.social by Maximillian Guarini - who we were lucky to host as visitor at @visualpolitics.bsky.social a couple of years ago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
A three-step guide to creating political villains: an intriguing new open-access visual essay in @viscomjournal.bsky.social by Maximillian Guarini - who we were lucky to host as visitor at @visualpolitics.bsky.social a couple of years ago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Visual compositing: engagement, interpretation and visualization of Holocaust memory in digital culture" by Lital Henig
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September 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
"Visual compositing: engagement, interpretation and visualization of Holocaust memory in digital culture" by Lital Henig
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Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue
Multimodality and Reception Studies
Investigating multimodality, reception and civic participation on YouTube. A case study of the documentary “Greece: The Hidden War” by @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social and Iokasti Foundouka
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Multimodality and Reception Studies
Investigating multimodality, reception and civic participation on YouTube. A case study of the documentary “Greece: The Hidden War” by @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social and Iokasti Foundouka
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Investigating multimodality, reception and civic participation on YouTube: a case study of the documentary ‘Greece: The Hidden War’ - Jacopo Castaldi, Iokasti Christina Foundouka, 2025
Social media have long provided opportunities for political and civic participation and YouTube is one of those social media platforms that has been studied and...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue
Multimodality and Reception Studies
Investigating multimodality, reception and civic participation on YouTube. A case study of the documentary “Greece: The Hidden War” by @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social and Iokasti Foundouka
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
Multimodality and Reception Studies
Investigating multimodality, reception and civic participation on YouTube. A case study of the documentary “Greece: The Hidden War” by @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social and Iokasti Foundouka
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue
Multimodality and Reception Studies
"Visual Disinformation and Audience Reception: A Comparative Analysis of Media Richness, Sophistication, and Emotional Engagement in Chinese Social Media" by Yu Xiang journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Multimodality and Reception Studies
"Visual Disinformation and Audience Reception: A Comparative Analysis of Media Richness, Sophistication, and Emotional Engagement in Chinese Social Media" by Yu Xiang journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue
Multimodality and Reception Studies
"Visual Disinformation and Audience Reception: A Comparative Analysis of Media Richness, Sophistication, and Emotional Engagement in Chinese Social Media" by Yu Xiang journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Multimodality and Reception Studies
"Visual Disinformation and Audience Reception: A Comparative Analysis of Media Richness, Sophistication, and Emotional Engagement in Chinese Social Media" by Yu Xiang journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Deconstructing a kaleidoscope of semiotic modes and audience perception of #multimodality in #advertising #discourse" by Irina Aleksić-
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September 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Deconstructing a kaleidoscope of semiotic modes and audience perception of #multimodality in #advertising #discourse" by Irina Aleksić-
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"An audience reception study of danmu-enabled humour in multimodal texts" by Lisi Liang and Siwen Lu. Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
An audience reception study of danmu-enabled humour in multimodal texts - Lisi Liang, Siwen Lu, 2025
Danmu-mediated communication reveals the intricate process of audience participation and preference. Such intricacy of communication includes danmu subtitling a...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"An audience reception study of danmu-enabled humour in multimodal texts" by Lisi Liang and Siwen Lu. Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Children’s comprehension and interpretation of #narrative complexity in film: The tangled case of flashbacks" by Emilia Djonov, Chiao-I Tseng. Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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"Children’s comprehension and interpretation of #narrative complexity in film: The tangled case of flashbacks" by Emilia Djonov, Chiao-I Tseng. Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"Linking #multimodal cohesion, scan paths and learning outcomes in #educational #videos" by Florian Schmidt-Borcherding, Leandra Thiele, John A. Bateman. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Linking multimodal cohesion, gaze behaviour and learning outcome in educational videos - Florian Schmidt-Borcherding, Leandra Thiele, John A Bateman, 2025
Multimodal design in educational videos is a complex task, requiring the effective integration of various semiotic modalities to promote understanding among rec...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Linking #multimodal cohesion, scan paths and learning outcomes in #educational #videos" by Florian Schmidt-Borcherding, Leandra Thiele, John A. Bateman. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
'Insights into the black box of #multimodal meaning-making: Investigating the reception of Multimodality empirically' by Hans-Jürgen Bucher on experimental #ReceptionStudies, integrated with #multimodal text analysis.
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August 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
'Insights into the black box of #multimodal meaning-making: Investigating the reception of Multimodality empirically' by Hans-Jürgen Bucher on experimental #ReceptionStudies, integrated with #multimodal text analysis.
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'Cluttered Screens – An Eye-Tracking Study of Visual Attention Allocation among Viewers of TV News' by Jan Hensellek focuses on the distribution of #visual #attention and #memory.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
'Cluttered Screens – An Eye-Tracking Study of Visual Attention Allocation among Viewers of TV News' by Jan Hensellek focuses on the distribution of #visual #attention and #memory.
Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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In 'Multimodality and Reception Studies,' @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social starts with a justification of the need to integrate reception studies within empirical multimodal research, whilst clarifying the dynamic and two-directional nature of multimodal communication. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue 'Multimodality and Reception Studies' 📑: | Visual Communication Journal
Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue 'Multimodality and Reception Studies' 📑:
01** In 'Multimodality and Reception Studies,' Jacopo Castaldi, PhD, FHEA starts with a justification of th...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In 'Multimodality and Reception Studies,' @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social starts with a justification of the need to integrate reception studies within empirical multimodal research, whilst clarifying the dynamic and two-directional nature of multimodal communication. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
'Dancing with scissors: collage as visual design scholarship' by Steven McCarthy and Jessica Barness: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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'Dancing with scissors: collage as visual design scholarship' by Steven McCarthy and Jessica Barness: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Online first, open access from Ziye Zang:
'Crafting Fantasies of Dominance: Visual Framing of Chinese and US Leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021,' highlights at: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
'Crafting Fantasies of Dominance: Visual Framing of Chinese and US Leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021,' highlights at: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Congratulations on your first publication titled 'Crafting Fantasies of Dominance: Visual Framing of Chinese and US Leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021,' Ziye Zang! | Visual Communica...
Congratulations on your first publication titled 'Crafting Fantasies of Dominance: Visual Framing of Chinese and US Leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021,' Ziye Zang!
Highlights:
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August 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Online first, open access from Ziye Zang:
'Crafting Fantasies of Dominance: Visual Framing of Chinese and US Leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021,' highlights at: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
'Crafting Fantasies of Dominance: Visual Framing of Chinese and US Leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021,' highlights at: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Special issue 'Multimodality and Reception Studies' guest-edited by @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social is available Online First. For a variety of methodological tools for exploring the entire communication process, from the creation of a text to its reception, check www.linkedin.com/posts/visual...
This special issue guest-edited by Jacopo Castaldi, PhD, FHEA advances our understanding of how text-based multimodal research can be enriched by a reception-oriented perspective. | Visual Communicati...
This special issue guest-edited by Jacopo Castaldi, PhD, FHEA advances our understanding of how text-based multimodal research can be enriched by a reception-oriented perspective.
Together, the feat...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Special issue 'Multimodality and Reception Studies' guest-edited by @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social is available Online First. For a variety of methodological tools for exploring the entire communication process, from the creation of a text to its reception, check www.linkedin.com/posts/visual...