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• A city of two tales: multimodal metaphorical and metonymic representation of the Olympics and the host country in two official Olympic mascot promotional videos.
  Ping Tang, Lang Chen.
  Visual Communication. 4 days ago
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Given that metaphor and metonymy can frame realities by making complex phenomena more comprehensible, their ubiquity in image construction is unsurprising. Drawing upon conceptual metaphor and metonymy, multimodality, and Conceptual Blending Theory, this ...

  April 27, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572261420310   open full text
• A city of two tales: multimodal metaphorical and metonymic representation of the Olympics and the host country in two official Olympic mascot promotional videos.
  Ping Tang, Lang Chen.
  Visual Communication. 4 days ago
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Given that metaphor and metonymy can frame realities by making complex phenomena more comprehensible, their ubiquity in image construction is unsurprising. Drawing upon conceptual metaphor and metonymy, multimodality, and Conceptual Blending Theory, this ...

  April 27, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572261420310   open full text
• Hasanian ideas extended to visual art: the human figures and theme in Chinese landscape painting.
  Hailing Yu, Lixin ZhangSchool of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Changsha, China.
  Visual Communication. 13 days ago
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This study argues for a distinction betweenvisual artandvisual imagein our understanding and analysis of visual communication. Referring to the social semiotic model of verbal art by Ruqaiya Hasan, the study proposes a semiotic system of visual art, ...

  April 18, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572251399884   open full text
• Hasanian ideas extended to visual art: the human figures and theme in Chinese landscape painting.
  Hailing Yu, Lixin ZhangSchool of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Changsha, China.
  Visual Communication. 13 days ago
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This study argues for a distinction betweenvisual artandvisual imagein our understanding and analysis of visual communication. Referring to the social semiotic model of verbal art by Ruqaiya Hasan, the study proposes a semiotic system of visual art, ...

  April 18, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572251399884   open full text
• How expert designers foster expertise: a study of professional visual communication practice.
  Grant Ellmers, Marius Foley, Juliana Peloche.
  Visual Communication. April 11, 2026
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  While design expertise has been widely studied across domains such as industrial design, engineering and architecture, visual communication design has received limited attention. Earlier research examined novice designers’ development of reflective ...

  April 11, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572261418123   open full text
• How expert designers foster expertise: a study of professional visual communication practice.
  Grant Ellmers, Marius Foley, Juliana Peloche.
  Visual Communication. April 11, 2026
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  While design expertise has been widely studied across domains such as industrial design, engineering and architecture, visual communication design has received limited attention. Earlier research examined novice designers’ development of reflective ...

  April 11, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572261418123   open full text
• Visual composition of the pitch deck: a multimodal analysis of entrepreneurial pitch presentations.
  Paula Cabezas.
  Visual Communication. April 11, 2026
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This study focuses on the pitch deck, a slide presentation typically used in the world of business and innovation. The aims of the study reported are, firstly, to identify the use of visual elements in the pitch deck and, secondly, to relate the use of ...

  April 11, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572261424383   open full text
• Visual composition of the pitch deck: a multimodal analysis of entrepreneurial pitch presentations.
  Paula Cabezas.
  Visual Communication. April 11, 2026
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This study focuses on the pitch deck, a slide presentation typically used in the world of business and innovation. The aims of the study reported are, firstly, to identify the use of visual elements in the pitch deck and, secondly, to relate the use of ...

  April 11, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572261424383   open full text
• ‘And knowing is half the battle’: revisiting public service announcements and child safety lessons of visual communication from the G.I. JOE animated series.
  Brenna Miller, Elizabeth Dodge, Gloria Donnelly, Elysia Chandler, Basil H Aboul-Enein.
  Visual Communication. April 08, 2026
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article is a review of the public service announcements (PSAs) disseminated with theG.I. JOE: A Real American Herocartoon series which aired 95 episodes in the 1980s: 35 PSAs were identified and tabulated. The topics addressed ranged from specific ...

  April 08, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572261418122   open full text
• ‘And knowing is half the battle’: revisiting public service announcements and child safety lessons of visual communication from the G.I. JOE animated series.
  Brenna Miller, Elizabeth Dodge, Gloria Donnelly, Elysia Chandler, Basil H Aboul-Enein.
  Visual Communication. April 08, 2026
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article is a review of the public service announcements (PSAs) disseminated with theG.I. JOE: A Real American Herocartoon series which aired 95 episodes in the 1980s: 35 PSAs were identified and tabulated. The topics addressed ranged from specific ...

  April 08, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572261418122   open full text
• Judging a book by its cover: comparing visual grammar analysis of book covers with an eye-tracking study on viewer perceptions.
  Long Li, Sixin Liao.
  Visual Communication. February 12, 2026
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This study represents an initial effort to integrate Visual Grammar analysis of book covers with an eye-tracking study of 65 Chinese viewers’ perceptions of 10 covers. While Visual Grammar usefully systematizes meaning-making resources in multimodal texts,...

  February 12, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572251394548   open full text
• Judging a book by its cover: comparing visual grammar analysis of book covers with an eye-tracking study on viewer perceptions.
  Long Li, Sixin Liao.
  Visual Communication. February 12, 2026
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This study represents an initial effort to integrate Visual Grammar analysis of book covers with an eye-tracking study of 65 Chinese viewers’ perceptions of 10 covers. While Visual Grammar usefully systematizes meaning-making resources in multimodal texts,...

  February 12, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572251394548   open full text
• Choreo-graphic design: reappraising dance notation.
  Rob Tovey, Lynsey McCulloch.
  Visual Communication. January 23, 2026
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article considers the graphic design history of dance notation. For over 300 years, attempts to develop a unified, consistent notational system for dance have proven an intractable graphic design challenge, with numerous designs entering the field ...

  January 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572251386429   open full text
• Choreo-graphic design: reappraising dance notation.
  Rob Tovey, Lynsey McCulloch.
  Visual Communication. January 23, 2026
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article considers the graphic design history of dance notation. For over 300 years, attempts to develop a unified, consistent notational system for dance have proven an intractable graphic design challenge, with numerous designs entering the field ...

  January 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572251386429   open full text
• Visual Communication is proud to announce its third Early Career Research Scholarship.
  Louise Ravelli, Janina Wildfeuer.
  Visual Communication. January 17, 2026
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 3-3, February 2026.
  

  January 17, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572251404355   open full text
• Visual Communication is proud to announce its third Early Career Research Scholarship.
  Louise Ravelli, Janina Wildfeuer.
  Visual Communication. January 17, 2026
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 3-3, February 2026.
  

  January 17, 2026   doi: 10.1177/14703572251404355   open full text
• Branding of top Pakistani universities: a multisemiotic analysis of university logos on X.
  Fareeha Aazam, Pei Soo Ang, Siang Lee YeoUniversiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  Visual Communication. December 15, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Focusing on how five top-ranked Pakistani universities construct their branding narratives on X, this research presents a multisemiotic analysis of the logos displayed on their official X profile pages. The study adopts a composite analytical framework ...

  December 15, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251394574   open full text
• Branding of top Pakistani universities: a multisemiotic analysis of university logos on X.
  Fareeha Aazam, Pei Soo Ang, Siang Lee YeoUniversiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  Visual Communication. December 15, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Focusing on how five top-ranked Pakistani universities construct their branding narratives on X, this research presents a multisemiotic analysis of the logos displayed on their official X profile pages. The study adopts a composite analytical framework ...

  December 15, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251394574   open full text
• Book review: Art as Communication: Aesthetics, Evolution, and Signaling.
  Xingjie Du, Zhou Mengjie.
  Visual Communication. December 13, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  December 13, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251391401   open full text
• (Re)constructed identities in the social media discourse of Nigeria’s #EndSARS.
  Charles Ononiwu, Adesina B Sunday, Albert Lekan Oyeleye.
  Visual Communication. December 09, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  #EndSARS, an instance of social activism in Nigeria, was a reaction to police brutality and misgovernance. This study examines how users of Nigerian Twitter (now known as X) draw on various discourses to challenge police brutality and (re)construct their ...

  December 09, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251390770   open full text
• (Re)constructed identities in the social media discourse of Nigeria’s #EndSARS.
  Charles Ononiwu, Adesina B Sunday, Albert Lekan Oyeleye.
  Visual Communication. December 09, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  #EndSARS, an instance of social activism in Nigeria, was a reaction to police brutality and misgovernance. This study examines how users of Nigerian Twitter (now known as X) draw on various discourses to challenge police brutality and (re)construct their ...

  December 09, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251390770   open full text
• Humor, culture, and compliance in health crisis communication: a multimodal analysis of government-produced memes for a local community during a global pandemic.
  Xiaoping Wu, Richard Fitzgerald.
  Visual Communication. December 02, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Government social media accounts have become vital tools for disseminating health information, encouraging public compliance with health policies, and maintaining communication during health crises. Moving beyond traditional formal announcements, this ...

  December 02, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251386674   open full text
• Humor, culture, and compliance in health crisis communication: a multimodal analysis of government-produced memes for a local community during a global pandemic.
  Xiaoping Wu, Richard Fitzgerald.
  Visual Communication. December 02, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Government social media accounts have become vital tools for disseminating health information, encouraging public compliance with health policies, and maintaining communication during health crises. Moving beyond traditional formal announcements, this ...

  December 02, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251386674   open full text
• Operationalizing the male gaze: reconstructing Laura Mulvey’s analysis of visual pleasure.
  Warren Buckland.
  Visual Communication. November 04, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Laura Mulvey’s ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’ (1975) is the most widely cited, heavily anthologized and endlessly summarized essay in Film Studies. It is a foundational text that frames mainstream narrative cinema as a type of discourse that ...

  November 04, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251383129   open full text
• Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump.
  Christopher Hart, Steve StrudwickLancaster University, UK.
  Visual Communication. October 21, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  The communicative style of right-wing populism is characterized by embodied modes of performance as much as verbal stylistic features. This article investigates the embodied performance of one right-wing populist politician, namely Donald Trump, with a ...

  October 21, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251380661   open full text
• Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump.
  Christopher Hart, Steve StrudwickLancaster University, UK.
  Visual Communication. October 21, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  The communicative style of right-wing populism is characterized by embodied modes of performance as much as verbal stylistic features. This article investigates the embodied performance of one right-wing populist politician, namely Donald Trump, with a ...

  October 21, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251380661   open full text
• ‘Tiny canvases, big tales’: deciphering the concept of tax through Japanese children’s postcard drawings.
  Xiaoben Yuan.
  Visual Communication. October 17, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Children’s drawings serve as a medium for conceptualizing complex societal ideas. This study investigates how Japanese children aged 11–12 years employ multimodal metaphors in tax-themed postcard drawings to represent taxation. By analyzing 712 contest ...

  October 17, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251371121   open full text
• Computer-mediated representations: a qualitative examination of algorithmic vision and visual style.
  TJ ThomsonRMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  Visual Communication. October 04, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  To the general public, text-to-image generators, such as Midjourney and DALL-E, seem to work through magic and, indeed, their inner workings are often frustratingly opaque. This is, in part, due to the lack of transparency from big tech companies around ...

  October 04, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251358425   open full text
• The effect of typographic text presentation on reader perceptions of importance in bilingual Māori–English picturebooks.
  Nicholas Vanderschantz, Nicola Daly, Vouchleang San.
  Visual Communication. October 03, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  With the establishment of Māori medium education in the 1980s, picturebooks featuring Te Reo Māori have been needed and are increasingly being developed, produced, and used in full immersion and mainstream education in Aotearoa New Zealand. In recent ...

  October 03, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251346392   open full text
• The effect of typographic text presentation on reader perceptions of importance in bilingual Māori–English picturebooks.
  Nicholas Vanderschantz, Nicola Daly, Vouchleang San.
  Visual Communication. October 03, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  With the establishment of Māori medium education in the 1980s, picturebooks featuring Te Reo Māori have been needed and are increasingly being developed, produced, and used in full immersion and mainstream education in Aotearoa New Zealand. In recent ...

  October 03, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251346392   open full text
• Revitalizing dry stone heritage through collaborative visual ethnography.
  Ricard Espelt, Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Rosa Cerarols.
  Visual Communication. September 29, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Dry stone constructions, recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage, face increasing challenges due to abandonment and environmental degradation. This article explores how collaborative visual ethnography can contribute to the documentation and ...

  September 29, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251375367   open full text
• Revitalizing dry stone heritage through collaborative visual ethnography.
  Ricard Espelt, Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Rosa Cerarols.
  Visual Communication. September 29, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Dry stone constructions, recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage, face increasing challenges due to abandonment and environmental degradation. This article explores how collaborative visual ethnography can contribute to the documentation and ...

  September 29, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251375367   open full text
• 360-degree ethnography: affordances and limitations in place-centric research.
  Matteo Baraldo, Francesca Dolcetti, Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di FrancoSchool of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
  Visual Communication. September 19, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article investigates the evolving methodology of 360-degree video-ethnography, particularly in qualitative inquiries concerning the interconnectedness of individuals and their surroundings. It delineates some unique affordances of 360-degree videos ...

  September 19, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251364346   open full text
• Visual compositing: engagement, interpretation and visualization of Holocaust memory in digital culture.
  Lital Henig.
  Visual Communication. September 15, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Archival images of the Holocaust have been and continue to be an essential component of Holocaust memory and representation. In recent years, Holocaust memory projects have begun using these images in fragmented forms – copied, cut and pasted into new ...

  September 15, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251358428   open full text
• A three-step manual for creating a political villain: the case of Jeremy Corbyn.
  Maximillian Guarini.
  Visual Communication. September 14, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This manual guides the reader through the process of creating a political villain with three easy-to-follow steps. Readers may wish to create their own political villains (there is no shortage of politicians on which to practise), or simply use it to ...

  September 14, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251335858   open full text
• A three-step manual for creating a political villain: the case of Jeremy Corbyn.
  Maximillian Guarini.
  Visual Communication. September 14, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This manual guides the reader through the process of creating a political villain with three easy-to-follow steps. Readers may wish to create their own political villains (there is no shortage of politicians on which to practise), or simply use it to ...

  September 14, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251335858   open full text
• Feminine power and Daoism: a review of Ba Wang Bian.
  Xiao LuGuilin Institute of Information and Technology, China.
  Visual Communication. September 11, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article reviewsBa Wang Bian, a contemporary dance fusing ethnic traditions with modern movements, performed by Chinese dancer Maya Jilan Dong and produced by British artistic director Farooq Chaudhry. Through choreographic semiotics and kinesthetic ...

  September 11, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251356652   open full text
• Profiling visual illness narratives: an exploration of online medical crowdfunding.
  Mingfei Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Shaojing SunSchool of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
  Visual Communication. September 10, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Visual narrative plays a significant role in engaging people to donate to online crowdfunding campaigns. This article investigates visual illness narrative patterns (VINPs) and evaluates their impact on medical crowdfunding. In Study 1, 11,445 images ...

  September 10, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251345280   open full text
• Crafting fantasies of dominance: visual framing of Chinese and US leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021.
  Ziye ZangSchool of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK.
  Visual Communication. August 16, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This study conducts visual content and framing analysis to compare the images of Chinese and US leaders inChina Pictorial(N= 153). Drawing from the images that juxtaposed US and Chinese leaders, the author aims to examine how the ‘fantasy’ of US–China ...

  August 16, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251356650   open full text
• Crafting fantasies of dominance: visual framing of Chinese and US leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021.
  Ziye ZangSchool of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK.
  Visual Communication. August 16, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This study conducts visual content and framing analysis to compare the images of Chinese and US leaders inChina Pictorial(N= 153). Drawing from the images that juxtaposed US and Chinese leaders, the author aims to examine how the ‘fantasy’ of US–China ...

  August 16, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251356650   open full text
• Dancing with scissors: collage as visual design scholarship.
  Steven McCarthy, Jessica Barness.
  Visual Communication. August 11, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Collage is a formal art genre, a medium of expression and communication, and a teaching tool. But what is the potential of collage as a methodological process in visual design scholarship? This article provides theoretical and practical frameworks for ‘...

  August 11, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251328345   open full text
• Dancing with scissors: collage as visual design scholarship.
  Steven McCarthy, Jessica Barness.
  Visual Communication. August 11, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Collage is a formal art genre, a medium of expression and communication, and a teaching tool. But what is the potential of collage as a methodological process in visual design scholarship? This article provides theoretical and practical frameworks for ‘...

  August 11, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251328345   open full text
• Chronotopic layers of virtual authenticity: decoding Lil Miquela’s multi-faceted digital identity.
  Nashwa Elyamany.
  Visual Communication. July 08, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This study examines the intricate interplay between identity construction and multimodal communication in the evolving landscape of Virtual Influencers (VIs), with a particular focus onLil Miquela. It addresses a critical gap in understanding how ...

  July 08, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251332877   open full text
• Mapping the emergence of visual biases in journalistic interactive visualizations.
  Inbal Klein-Avraham, Zvi ReichDepartment of Communication Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
  Visual Communication. July 03, 2025
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 44-66, February 2026.
  Despite their attractive and effective nature, journalistic interactive visualizations (JIVs) are highly susceptible to bias and manipulation. Based on a quantitative content analysis of 600 JIVs from six leading general and financial news sites (The New ...

  July 03, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241247118   open full text
• Mapping the emergence of visual biases in journalistic interactive visualizations.
  Inbal Klein-Avraham, Zvi ReichDepartment of Communication Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
  Visual Communication. July 03, 2025
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 44-66, February 2026.
  Despite their attractive and effective nature, journalistic interactive visualizations (JIVs) are highly susceptible to bias and manipulation. Based on a quantitative content analysis of 600 JIVs from six leading general and financial news sites (The New ...

  July 03, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241247118   open full text
• From ‘good for her’ to ‘you in danger, girl’: text–image relationships in GIF reply posts.
  Elizabeth Marsden, Alba Milà-Garcia.
  Visual Communication. June 25, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article aims to explore the relatively under-researched text–image relationships within reply GIFs, with and without embedded text and/or user-added text. Drawing on existing frameworks for analysing text–image relationships, the article ...

  June 25, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241310769   open full text
• ‘Please tell us how you can volunteer your contributions to the school’: a social semiotic analysis of school websites.
  Zhi Yang Chan, Fei Victor LimNational Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  Visual Communication. June 25, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  The incursion of neoliberalism has impacted many facets of education worldwide. This article focuses on one of these: parent–school partnerships. Using a social semiotic approach, the authors analyse the websites of two primary schools in Singapore and ...

  June 25, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251335834   open full text
• ‘Please tell us how you can volunteer your contributions to the school’: a social semiotic analysis of school websites.
  Zhi Yang Chan, Fei Victor LimNational Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  Visual Communication. June 25, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  The incursion of neoliberalism has impacted many facets of education worldwide. This article focuses on one of these: parent–school partnerships. Using a social semiotic approach, the authors analyse the websites of two primary schools in Singapore and ...

  June 25, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251335834   open full text
• The chop suey letterform and cultural hegemony in global representation of visual Chineseness.
  Yu LiDepartment of Modern Languages and Literatures, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  Visual Communication. June 16, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Lettering styles mimicking the brushstrokes of Chinese calligraphy, known collectively as the ‘chop suey’ letterform, have featured prominently in the construction of visual Chineseness in global linguistic landscapes. This study examines and critiques ...

  June 16, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251328349   open full text
• Viral climate imagery: examining popular climate visuals on Twitter.
  Isaac Bravo, Daniel Silva Luna, Stefanie Walter.
  Visual Communication. May 21, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This study uses a multimodal approach, combining visual content analysis and textual analysis of tweet content to explore the virality of climate imagery on Twitter. Employing a combination of methods, including content analysis, latent class analysis, ...

  May 21, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251320292   open full text
• Reworking signs: multi-semiotic hybrids across systems in Chinese environmental posters.
  Yanfang HanZhengzhou University, Henan, China.
  Visual Communication. May 21, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  The rise of image-reading media has revolutionized environmental communication, particularly through multi-semiotic posters. This study examines how environmental posters produced by the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment enhance the visibility ...

  May 21, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251331117   open full text
• Reworking signs: multi-semiotic hybrids across systems in Chinese environmental posters.
  Yanfang HanZhengzhou University, Henan, China.
  Visual Communication. May 21, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  The rise of image-reading media has revolutionized environmental communication, particularly through multi-semiotic posters. This study examines how environmental posters produced by the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment enhance the visibility ...

  May 21, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251331117   open full text
• More than a place to eat: visual aesthetics and educational policies in Chilean school dining halls (1912–2020).
  Guillermo Marini, Cristóbal Molina Lorca, Valentina Villanueva GonzálezPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
  Visual Communication. April 15, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This visual essay portrays the historical development of an invisibilized space in Chilean schools: the dining hall. By analysing eight archive-based figures and one food-related poster from the early 20th century to the 21st century, the essay calls into ...

  April 15, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241301292   open full text
• More than a place to eat: visual aesthetics and educational policies in Chilean school dining halls (1912–2020).
  Guillermo Marini, Cristóbal Molina Lorca, Valentina Villanueva GonzálezPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
  Visual Communication. April 15, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This visual essay portrays the historical development of an invisibilized space in Chilean schools: the dining hall. By analysing eight archive-based figures and one food-related poster from the early 20th century to the 21st century, the essay calls into ...

  April 15, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241301292   open full text
• Amplification of conventional female gender displays and reinforcement of Asian stereotypes in user-generated Artificial Intelligence (AI) images on social media.
  Russell S ChunHofstra University, New York, NY, USA.
  Visual Communication. April 11, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  In a content analysis of user-generated artificial intelligence (AI) images from a public Facebook group, the authors investigate how female representations reflect normative racial and gendered stereotypes. Their results suggest that the proportion of ...

  April 11, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241299109   open full text
• Amplification of conventional female gender displays and reinforcement of Asian stereotypes in user-generated Artificial Intelligence (AI) images on social media.
  Russell S ChunHofstra University, New York, NY, USA.
  Visual Communication. April 11, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  In a content analysis of user-generated artificial intelligence (AI) images from a public Facebook group, the authors investigate how female representations reflect normative racial and gendered stereotypes. Their results suggest that the proportion of ...

  April 11, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241299109   open full text
• Book review: Organizational Semiotics: Multimodal Perspectives on Organization Studies.
  Keying Lin, Xiqin Liu.
  Visual Communication. April 03, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  April 03, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241305906   open full text
• Book review: Visual Politics in the Global South.
  Ahmad Musafir, Mauliadi Mau, Alem Febri Sonni.
  Visual Communication. March 20, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  March 20, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251315817   open full text
• Visualizing political communication on Spanish social media: an analysis of Andalusian political parties’ communication on Instagram.
  Antonio Pineda, Alberto Hermida, Elena Bellido-PérezUniversity of Seville, Spain.
  Visual Communication. March 20, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Instagram is a social networking site widely used in political communication, with candidates and parties throughout the world developing profiles and managing their images on this site. However, research focusing on Instagram is still limited in ...

  March 20, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241307305   open full text
• Visualizing political communication on Spanish social media: an analysis of Andalusian political parties’ communication on Instagram.
  Antonio Pineda, Alberto Hermida, Elena Bellido-PérezUniversity of Seville, Spain.
  Visual Communication. March 20, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Instagram is a social networking site widely used in political communication, with candidates and parties throughout the world developing profiles and managing their images on this site. However, research focusing on Instagram is still limited in ...

  March 20, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241307305   open full text
• Book review: Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media.
  James Dyer.
  Visual Communication. March 19, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  March 19, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251320291   open full text
• Visualizing invisible information: a scoping review of present findings, challenges and opportunities on tactile graphics design.
  Anqi Rong, Nina Hansopaheluwakan-Edward, Dian Li.
  Visual Communication. March 15, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  In the information age, a significant portion of information is disseminated visually, yet this mode of presentation is inaccessible to individuals with visual impairments. Instead, they rely on tactile graphics, which utilize raised lines, to convey ...

  March 15, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241300884   open full text
• Visual framing of climate change during natural disasters at home and abroad: an analysis of British news.
  Defne Günay, Öykü Yenen Aytekin, Gizem Melek.
  Visual Communication. March 13, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  The connection between climate change and its consequences is often implicit for the general public. Moreover, the public often perceives climate change as a phenomenon affecting distant regions and future generations, rather than recognising its ...

  March 13, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251320304   open full text
• Visual framing of climate change during natural disasters at home and abroad: an analysis of British news.
  Defne Günay, Öykü Yenen Aytekin, Gizem Melek.
  Visual Communication. March 13, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  The connection between climate change and its consequences is often implicit for the general public. Moreover, the public often perceives climate change as a phenomenon affecting distant regions and future generations, rather than recognising its ...

  March 13, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572251320304   open full text
• The smart home: a visual analysis.
  Sara Sadati Far, Agnieszka LeszczynskiWestern University, London, ON, Canada.
  Visual Communication. February 28, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  In this article, the authors engage with visual representations of smart homes, examining whether and how these media constitute emergent narratives of Western meanings of home. They do so by reporting on the findings of visual content and semiotic ...

  February 28, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241305804   open full text
• The smart home: a visual analysis.
  Sara Sadati Far, Agnieszka LeszczynskiWestern University, London, ON, Canada.
  Visual Communication. February 28, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  In this article, the authors engage with visual representations of smart homes, examining whether and how these media constitute emergent narratives of Western meanings of home. They do so by reporting on the findings of visual content and semiotic ...

  February 28, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241305804   open full text
• Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication.
  Michael Vaughan, Sarah KerrThe London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
  Visual Communication. February 27, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Wealth inequality is deepening in many countries around the world, presenting increasing challenges to public notions of fairness while simultaneously proving resistant to democratic intervention. This article looks at one element of the politics of ...

  February 27, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241300886   open full text
• Facing aging: Face Shadow.
  Yanbin Kang.
  Visual Communication. February 05, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Face Shadowis a contemporary dance performance presented by the Zhiren Experimental Theater that utilizes masks and body rhythms as its primary expressive tools to explore the theme of aging. After its stunning debut in Guangzhou on 17 March 2023, the ...

  February 05, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241300904   open full text
• Connecting stars and microcosms: visualization bridging astronomy and polaritonics.
  Evgeny Sedov.
  Visual Communication. January 31, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  In the data-intensive world of astronomy, visualization emerges as a crucial interpretive tool, bridging the gap between vast information and human understanding. This article uses visualization to explore the unexpected connection between astronomy and ...

  January 31, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241283869   open full text
• Net icons and memetic imagery of protest in online activism.
  Kathrin Fahlenbrach.
  Visual Communication. January 30, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  The article is dedicated to memetic practices of symbolic protest images in online activism, focusing on net memes and net icons of protest. Considering the particular affordances in the creation, distribution and reception of memetic imagery in online ...

  January 30, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241283871   open full text
• Net icons and memetic imagery of protest in online activism.
  Kathrin Fahlenbrach.
  Visual Communication. January 30, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  The article is dedicated to memetic practices of symbolic protest images in online activism, focusing on net memes and net icons of protest. Considering the particular affordances in the creation, distribution and reception of memetic imagery in online ...

  January 30, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241283871   open full text
• Analysing gender fluidity representation in perfume bottles with heterosexual matrix theory.
  Wentao Zhu, Xinyin Bao.
  Visual Communication. January 29, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Perfume bottles represent the gender identity associated with perfume, reflecting the transition in gender construction from binary to fluid in contemporary society. From the perspective of Butler’s heterosexual matrix theory (Gender Trouble, 1990), this ...

  January 29, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241283810   open full text
• Analysing gender fluidity representation in perfume bottles with heterosexual matrix theory.
  Wentao Zhu, Xinyin Bao.
  Visual Communication. January 29, 2025
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Perfume bottles represent the gender identity associated with perfume, reflecting the transition in gender construction from binary to fluid in contemporary society. From the perspective of Butler’s heterosexual matrix theory (Gender Trouble, 1990), this ...

  January 29, 2025   doi: 10.1177/14703572241283810   open full text
• Football fan choreographies as multimodal performances.
  Tuomo Hiippala, Marcus Callies.
  Visual Communication. December 19, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines football fan choreographies as multimodal performances. Fan choreographies, which are regularly organized by supporter groups at football stadia around the world, combine collective embodied actions with diverse media such as banners ...

  December 19, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241291208   open full text
• Football fan choreographies as multimodal performances.
  Tuomo Hiippala, Marcus Callies.
  Visual Communication. December 19, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines football fan choreographies as multimodal performances. Fan choreographies, which are regularly organized by supporter groups at football stadia around the world, combine collective embodied actions with diverse media such as banners ...

  December 19, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241291208   open full text
• ‘Let’s buy money before buying food’: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of WhatsApp memes on the Nigerian Naira redesign policy.
  Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah, Deborah Abiola FifelolaRedeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria.
  Visual Communication. December 19, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  In October 2022, the Central Bank of Nigeria declared that the three highest denominations of the Nigerian currency would be redesigned in order to strengthen the country’s cashless policy. This led to several protests involving loss of lives, due to ...

  December 19, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241275891   open full text
• ‘Let’s buy money before buying food’: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of WhatsApp memes on the Nigerian Naira redesign policy.
  Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah, Deborah Abiola FifelolaRedeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria.
  Visual Communication. December 19, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  In October 2022, the Central Bank of Nigeria declared that the three highest denominations of the Nigerian currency would be redesigned in order to strengthen the country’s cashless policy. This led to several protests involving loss of lives, due to ...

  December 19, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241275891   open full text
• Construing chemistry knowledge through images: a social semiotics perspective.
  Zhigang Yu.
  Visual Communication. December 18, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores how chemical images in school chemistry realize knowledge from a social semiotics perspective. Drawing on Kress and Van Leeuwen’s (2021[1996]) visual grammar framework (Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design) and Doran and ...

  December 18, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241279403   open full text
• Construing chemistry knowledge through images: a social semiotics perspective.
  Zhigang Yu.
  Visual Communication. December 18, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores how chemical images in school chemistry realize knowledge from a social semiotics perspective. Drawing on Kress and Van Leeuwen’s (2021[1996]) visual grammar framework (Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design) and Doran and ...

  December 18, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241279403   open full text
• Your smile works: understanding smiling face emojis in social media interactions.
  Kun Yang.
  Visual Communication. December 10, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Previous studies on smiling face emojis mainly focus on how they are employed by the addresser for rapport management, with limited attention given to exploring the addressee’s interpretation of smiling face emojis. This study aims to explore whether ...

  December 10, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241268382   open full text
• Your smile works: understanding smiling face emojis in social media interactions.
  Kun Yang.
  Visual Communication. December 10, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Previous studies on smiling face emojis mainly focus on how they are employed by the addresser for rapport management, with limited attention given to exploring the addressee’s interpretation of smiling face emojis. This study aims to explore whether ...

  December 10, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241268382   open full text
• Drawing on borders: a large-scale framing analysis of coronavirus in early UK news maps.
  Johanna Meyer, Julie Barnett, Danaë Stanton FraserUniversity of Bath, UK.
  Visual Communication. November 27, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Maps are a unique means of combining visual and textual communication, and have been ubiquitous in Covid-19 reporting. This article presents a framing analysis of 4,398 coronavirus-related news maps published across six UK news outlets during the early ...

  November 27, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241261327   open full text
• Drawing on borders: a large-scale framing analysis of coronavirus in early UK news maps.
  Johanna Meyer, Julie Barnett, Danaë Stanton FraserUniversity of Bath, UK.
  Visual Communication. November 27, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Maps are a unique means of combining visual and textual communication, and have been ubiquitous in Covid-19 reporting. This article presents a framing analysis of 4,398 coronavirus-related news maps published across six UK news outlets during the early ...

  November 27, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241261327   open full text
• Book review: Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s.
  Arianna Maiorani.
  Visual Communication. November 26, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  November 26, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241274991   open full text
• Going against the grain? Appraising the aesthetic labour of male beauty influencers on Instagram.
  Felicia Chua, Peter Teo.
  Visual Communication. October 22, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 67-96, February 2026.
  Despite the proliferation of scholarly studies on social media in recent years, not many have focused on male social media influencers in the beauty industry, which is often viewed as a feminine preserve with the vast majority of ‘beauty influencers’ ...

  October 22, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241251656   open full text
• Showing climate action: exploring Fridays for Future Germany’s visual activism on Flickr.
  David Shim.
  Visual Communication. October 08, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines how Fridays for Future Germany (FFFG) uses photographs of climate protests to convey the politics of climate change to wider audiences. The author argues that FFFG is an ideal-type form of visual activism in which visual imagery is ...

  October 08, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241255665   open full text
• Showing climate action: exploring Fridays for Future Germany’s visual activism on Flickr.
  David Shim.
  Visual Communication. October 08, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines how Fridays for Future Germany (FFFG) uses photographs of climate protests to convey the politics of climate change to wider audiences. The author argues that FFFG is an ideal-type form of visual activism in which visual imagery is ...

  October 08, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241255665   open full text
• The legitimation of screenshots as visual evidence in social media: YouTube videos spreading misinformation and disinformation.
  Olivia Inwood, Michele ZappavignaSchool of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, AustraliaWestern Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
  Visual Communication. October 07, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores the use of screenshots as a form of visual evidence on social media platforms. It considers their role in YouTube videos that spread misinformation and disinformation about the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire and an internet hoax, the Momo ...

  October 07, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241255664   open full text
• The legitimation of screenshots as visual evidence in social media: YouTube videos spreading misinformation and disinformation.
  Olivia Inwood, Michele ZappavignaSchool of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, AustraliaWestern Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
  Visual Communication. October 07, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores the use of screenshots as a form of visual evidence on social media platforms. It considers their role in YouTube videos that spread misinformation and disinformation about the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire and an internet hoax, the Momo ...

  October 07, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241255664   open full text
• Book review: Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes – A New Cartography of Borders and Migration.
  Charles Forceville.
  Visual Communication. October 03, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  October 03, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241269633   open full text
• Visual realism and character identification in science comics: an empirical study testing McCloud’s ‘masking effect’ theory.
  Shiyu Yang, Leonardo Barolo Gargiulo, Nan Li, Dominique Brossard.
  Visual Communication. October 03, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Comics have increasingly served as a tool for delivering scientific information to diverse audiences. However, little is known about how visual elements in comics influence their persuasive potential. Inspired by McCloud (1993)’s ‘masking effect’ theory ...

  October 03, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241258896   open full text
• Visual realism and character identification in science comics: an empirical study testing McCloud’s ‘masking effect’ theory.
  Shiyu Yang, Leonardo Barolo Gargiulo, Nan Li, Dominique Brossard.
  Visual Communication. October 03, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Comics have increasingly served as a tool for delivering scientific information to diverse audiences. However, little is known about how visual elements in comics influence their persuasive potential. Inspired by McCloud (1993)’s ‘masking effect’ theory ...

  October 03, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241258896   open full text
• A down-to-earth visual representation of contemporary China: analysing the video game Chinese Parents.
  Xiyuan Tan, Hailey J Austin.
  Visual Communication. September 07, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 379-399, February 2026.
  The award-winning indie video gameChinese Parents, developed by a mainland China-based studio, has gained significant popularity among both Chinese and Western players owing to its unique narrative and representation of contemporary mainland China. Some ...

  September 07, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241251642   open full text
• A down-to-earth visual representation of contemporary China: analysing the video game Chinese Parents.
  Xiyuan Tan, Hailey J Austin.
  Visual Communication. September 07, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 379-399, February 2026.
  The award-winning indie video gameChinese Parents, developed by a mainland China-based studio, has gained significant popularity among both Chinese and Western players owing to its unique narrative and representation of contemporary mainland China. Some ...

  September 07, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241251642   open full text
• Corrigendum to Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement.
  
  Visual Communication. September 06, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  September 06, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241275520   open full text
• A Mama for Owen: re-addressing adoption creatively in an accordion of visual parallelism.
  Coral Calvo-MaturanaUniversity of Granada, Spain.
  Visual Communication. August 22, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 339-378, February 2026.
  This article critically explores the concept of ‘adoption’ via the semiotic analysis of the picture bookA Mama for Owen(Bauer and Butler, 2007), which stands here as a testimony of adoption narratives and the ways in which they are creatively re-...

  August 22, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241239491   open full text
• A Mama for Owen: re-addressing adoption creatively in an accordion of visual parallelism.
  Coral Calvo-MaturanaUniversity of Granada, Spain.
  Visual Communication. August 22, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 339-378, February 2026.
  This article critically explores the concept of ‘adoption’ via the semiotic analysis of the picture bookA Mama for Owen(Bauer and Butler, 2007), which stands here as a testimony of adoption narratives and the ways in which they are creatively re-...

  August 22, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241239491   open full text
• The urban aesthetics of graffiti murals: reproducing wall space in China’s urban renewal.
  Jiayin Zhang, Huilin Deng, Mingliang Lin, Min Wang.
  Visual Communication. August 20, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 20-43, February 2026.
  In China, as in the West in recent decades to a lesser degree, the semantics of ‘graffiti’ have gradually become an alternative term for graffiti murals in urban renewal. Graffiti murals, through various renewal strategies, reproduce the wall spaces of ...

  August 20, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241245604   open full text
• The urban aesthetics of graffiti murals: reproducing wall space in China’s urban renewal.
  Jiayin Zhang, Huilin Deng, Mingliang Lin, Min Wang.
  Visual Communication. August 20, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 20-43, February 2026.
  In China, as in the West in recent decades to a lesser degree, the semantics of ‘graffiti’ have gradually become an alternative term for graffiti murals in urban renewal. Graffiti murals, through various renewal strategies, reproduce the wall spaces of ...

  August 20, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241245604   open full text
• Book review: Jr Martin and Len Unsworth, Reading Images for Knowledge-Building: Analyzing Infographics in School Science.
  Zhigang yu.
  Visual Communication. June 17, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  June 17, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241249640   open full text
• Performing different forms of ‘sociable authenticity’ in five bakery shops in Sweden using the semla pastry as a prominent multimodal resource.
  Åsa KroonSchool of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden.
  Visual Communication. June 13, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines how five bakeries in a mid-sized Swedish town communicate with their (potential) customers using different forms of ‘authentic’ displays of the much-loved seasonal pastry, the semla (a particular type of Lenten bun). Authenticity is ...

  June 13, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241241452   open full text
• Performing different forms of ‘sociable authenticity’ in five bakery shops in Sweden using the semla pastry as a prominent multimodal resource.
  Åsa KroonSchool of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden.
  Visual Communication. June 13, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines how five bakeries in a mid-sized Swedish town communicate with their (potential) customers using different forms of ‘authentic’ displays of the much-loved seasonal pastry, the semla (a particular type of Lenten bun). Authenticity is ...

  June 13, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241241452   open full text
• Visualizing dementia and stigma: a scoping review of the literature.
  Emma Putland, Gavin BrookesLancaster University, UK.
  Visual Communication. May 18, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Discursive choices are recognized by both academic and dementia communities as being central to the perpetuation (or challenging) of dementia-related stigma. Yet, the focus of the vast majority of research on the discursive dynamics of dementia stigma to ...

  May 18, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241245587   open full text
• Visualizing dementia and stigma: a scoping review of the literature.
  Emma Putland, Gavin BrookesLancaster University, UK.
  Visual Communication. May 18, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Discursive choices are recognized by both academic and dementia communities as being central to the perpetuation (or challenging) of dementia-related stigma. Yet, the focus of the vast majority of research on the discursive dynamics of dementia stigma to ...

  May 18, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241245587   open full text
• Book review: Literacy and Identity through Streaming Media: Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix.
  Virginia Rosa Da Silva.
  Visual Communication. May 16, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  May 16, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241239488   open full text
• Book review: Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design.
  Linda Knight.
  Visual Communication. May 16, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  May 16, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241239503   open full text
• Sculpting Foucauldian power in Game of Thrones as a transmedia project: a systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis.
  Reham El Shazly, May Samir El Falaky, Randa Khalil.
  Visual Communication. May 16, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 304-338, February 2026.
  This study analyses the textual, visual and interactional modes employed in creating and representing Daenerys Targaryen in both Home Box Office TV showGame of Thronesand mobile gameReigns: Game of Thronesas a transmedia project to guide users’ ...

  May 16, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241239501   open full text
• Sculpting Foucauldian power in Game of Thrones as a transmedia project: a systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis.
  Reham El Shazly, May Samir El Falaky, Randa Khalil.
  Visual Communication. May 16, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 304-338, February 2026.
  This study analyses the textual, visual and interactional modes employed in creating and representing Daenerys Targaryen in both Home Box Office TV showGame of Thronesand mobile gameReigns: Game of Thronesas a transmedia project to guide users’ ...

  May 16, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241239501   open full text
• Relentless Melt: visual trends and aesthetics of contemporary visual music films in Hong Kong.
  Max Hattler, Terrie Man-Chi CheungCity University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  Visual Communication. April 11, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  In recent years, a growing trend of abstract and experimental animation has emerged in Hong Kong, with an increasing number of works produced over the last two decades, particularly since around 2015. This article examines how Hong Kong artists approach ...

  April 11, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241235289   open full text
• Relentless Melt: visual trends and aesthetics of contemporary visual music films in Hong Kong.
  Max Hattler, Terrie Man-Chi CheungCity University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  Visual Communication. April 11, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  In recent years, a growing trend of abstract and experimental animation has emerged in Hong Kong, with an increasing number of works produced over the last two decades, particularly since around 2015. This article examines how Hong Kong artists approach ...

  April 11, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572241235289   open full text
• Representing Her Trajectory: reflections on an arts-based research on women migration and data visualization.
  Hong ZengAcademy of Film, School of Creative Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
  Visual Communication. February 21, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 4-19, February 2026.
  In recent decades, women have increasingly left their countries of origin, leading to an increase in transnational migration.Her Trajectory(2020), a project created by the author, represents women migrants’ paths, affects and experiences through counter-...

  February 21, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572231210964   open full text
• Representing Her Trajectory: reflections on an arts-based research on women migration and data visualization.
  Hong ZengAcademy of Film, School of Creative Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
  Visual Communication. February 21, 2024
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 4-19, February 2026.
  In recent decades, women have increasingly left their countries of origin, leading to an increase in transnational migration.Her Trajectory(2020), a project created by the author, represents women migrants’ paths, affects and experiences through counter-...

  February 21, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572231210964   open full text
• Book review: Multimodal Experiences across Cultures, Spaces and Identities.
  Yuan Ping.
  Visual Communication. February 16, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  February 16, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572231212343   open full text
• Book review: Gesture and Multimodality in Second Language Acquisition: A Research Guide.
  Francesca MarinoUniversity of South Florida, Tampa, USA.
  Visual Communication. February 02, 2024
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  February 02, 2024   doi: 10.1177/14703572231210953   open full text
• Book review: Multimodality and Identity.
  Changling ZhaoBeijing Information Science and Technology University, People’s Republic of China.
  Visual Communication. December 25, 2023
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  December 25, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231185983   open full text
• Book review: The Space between Look and Read: Designing Complementary Meaning.
  Kunming Li.
  Visual Communication. August 14, 2023
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  August 14, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231189754   open full text
• Book review: Multimodal Texts in Disciplinary Education: A Comprehensive Framework.
  Rohib Adrianto Sangia.
  Visual Communication. August 11, 2023
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  August 11, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231185989   open full text
• Book review: Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks.
  Zilong Zhong.
  Visual Communication. August 11, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 411-414, February 2026.
  

  August 11, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231185995   open full text
• Book review: Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks.
  Zilong Zhong.
  Visual Communication. August 11, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 411-414, February 2026.
  

  August 11, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231185995   open full text
• Book review: Experimental Games: Critique, Play and Design in the Age of Gamification.
  Xiaoyi Sun.
  Visual Communication. May 20, 2023
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  May 20, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231173069   open full text
• Book review: Genre Networks: Intersemiotic Relations in Digital Science Communication.
  Guangxue Dai, Xiqin Liu.
  Visual Communication. May 08, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 403-406, February 2026.
  

  May 08, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231170391   open full text
• Book review: Genre Networks: Intersemiotic Relations in Digital Science Communication.
  Guangxue Dai, Xiqin Liu.
  Visual Communication. May 08, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 403-406, February 2026.
  

  May 08, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231170391   open full text
• Corpus-based insights into multimodality and genre in primary school science diagrams.
  Tuomo HiippalaUniversity of Helsinki, Finland.
  Visual Communication. April 25, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 138-159, February 2026.
  This article presents a data-driven analysis of multimodal genre in a corpus of primary school science diagrams that contains multiple layers of cross-referenced annotations for multimodal discourse structure. The aim is to identify diagram genres in the ...

  April 25, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231161829   open full text
• Corpus-based insights into multimodality and genre in primary school science diagrams.
  Tuomo HiippalaUniversity of Helsinki, Finland.
  Visual Communication. April 25, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 138-159, February 2026.
  This article presents a data-driven analysis of multimodal genre in a corpus of primary school science diagrams that contains multiple layers of cross-referenced annotations for multimodal discourse structure. The aim is to identify diagram genres in the ...

  April 25, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231161829   open full text
• Book review: Photographs and the Practice of History.
  Linlin Song, Hulin Ren.
  Visual Communication. March 14, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 414-417, February 2026.
  

  March 14, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231161832   open full text
• Book review: Photographs and the Practice of History.
  Linlin Song, Hulin Ren.
  Visual Communication. March 14, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 414-417, February 2026.
  

  March 14, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231161832   open full text
• Book review: Multimodal Literacy in School Science: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy.
  Jinge Song, Jinyou Zhou.
  Visual Communication. March 02, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 400-403, February 2026.
  

  March 02, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231157037   open full text
• Book review: Multimodal Literacy in School Science: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy.
  Jinge Song, Jinyou Zhou.
  Visual Communication. March 02, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 400-403, February 2026.
  

  March 02, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231157037   open full text
• Book review: Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and Application.
  Xiaoqin Wu.
  Visual Communication. February 06, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 406-409, February 2026.
  

  February 06, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231152667   open full text
• Book review: Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and Application.
  Xiaoqin Wu.
  Visual Communication. February 06, 2023
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 406-409, February 2026.
  

  February 06, 2023   doi: 10.1177/14703572231152667   open full text
• Book review: tumblr.
  Kendra Calhoun.
  Visual Communication. July 08, 2022
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 409-411, February 2026.
  

  July 08, 2022   doi: 10.1177/14703572221109898   open full text
• Book review: tumblr.
  Kendra Calhoun.
  Visual Communication. July 08, 2022
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 409-411, February 2026.
  

  July 08, 2022   doi: 10.1177/14703572221109898   open full text
• Book review.
  Dandan Chen, Jinlin Jiang.
  Visual Communication. October 18, 2021
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  

  October 18, 2021   doi: 10.1177/14703572211038990   open full text
• International, innovative, multimodal and representative? The geographies, methods, modes and aims present in two visual communication journals.
  TJ ThomsonSchool of Communication, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
  Visual Communication. October 09, 2021
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 97-137, February 2026.
  This comparative review seeks to explore how international, innovative, multimodal and representative the scholarship published in two visual communication journals,Visual Communication(VC) andVisual Communication Quarterly(VCQ), is over a 25-year ...

  October 09, 2021   doi: 10.1177/14703572211038987   open full text
• International, innovative, multimodal and representative? The geographies, methods, modes and aims present in two visual communication journals.
  TJ ThomsonSchool of Communication, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
  Visual Communication. October 09, 2021
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 97-137, February 2026.
  This comparative review seeks to explore how international, innovative, multimodal and representative the scholarship published in two visual communication journals,Visual Communication(VC) andVisual Communication Quarterly(VCQ), is over a 25-year ...

  October 09, 2021   doi: 10.1177/14703572211038987   open full text
• Resistance to violence against women on Spanish walls.
  Jonna TolonenUniversity of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
  Visual Communication. March 31, 2021
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Drawing upon visual ethnographic research carried out in two Spanish cities between 2015 and 2018, this visual essay explores the ability of street art to speak about violence against women. Posters, wall writings and stencils represent both visual ...

  March 31, 2021   doi: 10.1177/1470357220943632   open full text
• Resistance to violence against women on Spanish walls.
  Jonna TolonenUniversity of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
  Visual Communication. March 31, 2021
  Visual Communication, Ahead of Print.
  Drawing upon visual ethnographic research carried out in two Spanish cities between 2015 and 2018, this visual essay explores the ability of street art to speak about violence against women. Posters, wall writings and stencils represent both visual ...

  March 31, 2021   doi: 10.1177/1470357220943632   open full text
• Scenarios of countercultural representation: an analysis of inventory books’ visualities.
  Leah HenricksonLoughborough University, UK.
  Visual Communication. October 11, 2019
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 279-303, February 2026.
  This article explores the social implications of the page layouts of ‘inventory books’, a series of non-fiction mass-market paperbacks published during the 1960s and 70s that employed eccentric printing strategies characterized primarily by a ...

  October 11, 2019   doi: 10.1177/1470357219877560   open full text
• Scenarios of countercultural representation: an analysis of inventory books’ visualities.
  Leah HenricksonLoughborough University, UK.
  Visual Communication. October 11, 2019
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 279-303, February 2026.
  This article explores the social implications of the page layouts of ‘inventory books’, a series of non-fiction mass-market paperbacks published during the 1960s and 70s that employed eccentric printing strategies characterized primarily by a ...

  October 11, 2019   doi: 10.1177/1470357219877560   open full text
• The shared stories that written words tell when no one is reading: exploring modality in typographic landscapes as an ecosocial semiotic system.
  Ryan Pescatore Frisk, Luc PauwelsUniversity of Antwerp, Belgium.
  Visual Communication. August 31, 2019
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 245-278, February 2026.
  In this article, the authors argue that typography at times functions as a primary semiotic resource when compared to the semantic meaning of text. The central inquiry further claims that this phenomenon is not an exception but, instead, a fundamental ...

  August 31, 2019   doi: 10.1177/1470357219860086   open full text
• The shared stories that written words tell when no one is reading: exploring modality in typographic landscapes as an ecosocial semiotic system.
  Ryan Pescatore Frisk, Luc PauwelsUniversity of Antwerp, Belgium.
  Visual Communication. August 31, 2019
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 245-278, February 2026.
  In this article, the authors argue that typography at times functions as a primary semiotic resource when compared to the semantic meaning of text. The central inquiry further claims that this phenomenon is not an exception but, instead, a fundamental ...

  August 31, 2019   doi: 10.1177/1470357219860086   open full text
• ‘Writing’ oneself into tragedy: visual user practices and spectatorship of the Alan Kurdi images on Instagram.
  Marloes Geboers.
  Visual Communication. June 26, 2019
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 220-244, February 2026.
  Studies into affective publics often involve textual communication. However, emotive communication is increasingly visual. This study zooms in on the representation of the suffering other in seven re-workings of the Alan Kurdi photographs that resonated ...

  June 26, 2019   doi: 10.1177/1470357219857118   open full text
• ‘Writing’ oneself into tragedy: visual user practices and spectatorship of the Alan Kurdi images on Instagram.
  Marloes Geboers.
  Visual Communication. June 26, 2019
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 220-244, February 2026.
  Studies into affective publics often involve textual communication. However, emotive communication is increasingly visual. This study zooms in on the representation of the suffering other in seven re-workings of the Alan Kurdi photographs that resonated ...

  June 26, 2019   doi: 10.1177/1470357219857118   open full text
• Multimodal engagement strategy focusing on a multi-layered voice concept: theory of persuasion in Japanese insurance TV commercials.
  Chavalin Svetanant, Kaori Okuizumi.
  Visual Communication. June 20, 2019
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 184-219, February 2026.
  Multimodal literacy, or the capability to critically produce, interpret and interact with the various forms of semiotic resources, has become one of the essential skills in contemporary discourse practice. Employing Multimodal Discourse Analysis and the ...

  June 20, 2019   doi: 10.1177/1470357219854774   open full text
• Multimodal engagement strategy focusing on a multi-layered voice concept: theory of persuasion in Japanese insurance TV commercials.
  Chavalin Svetanant, Kaori Okuizumi.
  Visual Communication. June 20, 2019
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 184-219, February 2026.
  Multimodal literacy, or the capability to critically produce, interpret and interact with the various forms of semiotic resources, has become one of the essential skills in contemporary discourse practice. Employing Multimodal Discourse Analysis and the ...

  June 20, 2019   doi: 10.1177/1470357219854774   open full text
• 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.
  Lea Hellmueller, Xu Zhang.
  Visual Communication. March 18, 2019
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 160-183, February 2026.
  Iconic photographs have the potential to stay in public collective memories. One such photograph of a dead 3-year-old Syrian refugee named Alan Kurdi sparked global outrage in September 2015 and became symbolic of the challenges of the Syrian civil war ...

  March 18, 2019   doi: 10.1177/1470357219832790   open full text
• 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.
  Lea Hellmueller, Xu Zhang.
  Visual Communication. March 18, 2019
  Visual Communication, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 160-183, February 2026.
  Iconic photographs have the potential to stay in public collective memories. One such photograph of a dead 3-year-old Syrian refugee named Alan Kurdi sparked global outrage in September 2015 and became symbolic of the challenges of the Syrian civil war ...

  March 18, 2019   doi: 10.1177/1470357219832790   open full text