Showing papers in "Visual Communication in 2021"
TL;DR: Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) claims that human beings can only understand abstract, complex phenomena by metaphorizing them in terms of concrete, more basic phenomena.
Abstract: Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) claims that human beings can only understand abstract, complex phenomena by metaphorizing them in terms of concrete, more basic phenomena – and do so systematically...
27 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a challenge for researchers working with multimodal classroom discourse is to be able to describe and discuss the interaction and interplay across various semiotic resources, and they adopt a similar approach.
Abstract: A challenge for researchers working with multimodal classroom discourse is to be able to describe and discuss the interaction and interplay across various semiotic resources. This article adopts th...
25 citations
TL;DR: Page layout is one of the most salient features of graphic novels and comics that readers encounter: even before engaging with specific content, an overall impression of the page composition will be generated.
Abstract: Page layout is one of the most salient features of graphic novels and comics that readers encounter: even before engaging with specific content, an overall impression of the page composition will h...
13 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed citizens' reactions to Brexit on social media after the referendum results by performing a content analysis of 5877 posts collected from the social media platfo...
Abstract: In this article, the authors analyze citizens’ reactions to Brexit on social media after the referendum results by performing a content analysis of 5877 posts collected from the social media platfo...
12 citations
TL;DR: Both Al Tahrir and Rabaa Squares have a significant iconized value especially after being involved as places in which to stage protests as mentioned in this paper, since, protests and revolts take place in public spaces, the...
Abstract: Both Al Tahrir and Rabaa Squares have a significant iconized value especially after being involved as places in which to stage protests. Since, protests and revolts take place in public spaces, the...
11 citations
TL;DR: The term "semogenesis" refers to how meaning potentials are created through processes on many co-occurring time frames, most prominently those referred to by Halliday and Matthiessen as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Michael Halliday and Christian Matthiessen’s term ‘semogenesis’ refers to how meaning potentials are created through processes on many co-occurring time frames, most prominently those referred to a...
11 citations
TL;DR: An increasing number of news organizations are reporting stories about responses to persistent societal problems, a reporting form known as solutions journalism as mentioned in this paper. But, while this type of reporting practi...
Abstract: An increasing number of news organizations are reporting stories about responses to persistent societal problems, a reporting form known as solutions journalism. While this type of reporting practi...
10 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the ways in which displaced artists represent the experience of displacement, their cultural traditions and the longing for home through paintings and how, by doing so, they...
Abstract: This article considers the ways in which displaced artists represent the experience of displacement, their cultural traditions and the longing for home through paintings and how, by doing so, they ...
9 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that the agency of datasets is produced by obscuring the power and subjective choices of its creators and the countless hours of highly disciplined labour of crowd workers.
Abstract: Industry and governments have deployed computer vision models to make high-stake decisions in society. While they are often presented as neutral and objective, scholars have recognized that bias in...
9 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, ten individuals of immigrant or refugee background, who had experienced mental health or emotional issues, participated in an immersive workshop to create digital stories as part of a national mult...
Abstract: Ten individuals of immigrant or refugee background, who had experienced mental health or emotional issues, participated in an immersive workshop to create digital stories as part of a national mult...
9 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the system and variation in the ways dog signs manifest in public spaces and ask what restricting signs tell us about a society, and find that restricting signs in public space reflect "normalcy" in a community.
Abstract: Signs in public space reflect ‘normalcy’ in a community. The authors ask what restricting signs tell us about a society? In order to explore the system and variation in the ways dog signs manifest ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore different strategies for work in the social sciences to both use and present research visually using visual digital technologies, which has become more common in social sciences.
Abstract: With the development of visual digital technologies it has become more common in the social sciences to both use and present research visually. This article explores different strategies for workin...
TL;DR: The creation of value in different forms: aesthetic, economic and symbolic has attracted much attention in the past few decades as mentioned in this paper, however, the destruction of value has attracted little attention.
Abstract: Research in fields such as multimodality and semiotics has focused on creation of value in different forms: aesthetic, economic and symbolic. However, the destruction of value has attracted much le...
TL;DR: The findings of the experiment revealed that the participants experienced better information recall and comprehension of the content of the graphic codes when they were translated using the insertion method.
Abstract: Concerning graphic codes, there are currently three methods for their rendition in dubbing: audio-rendition of the target graphic codes (TGC) with an actor’s voice-off and adding the voice-off when...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize modes of representation in documentary films with strategies of legitimation, and develop a framework of documentary legitimation where each of the six modes recognized by the authors is defined.
Abstract: This article synthesizes modes of representation in documentary films with strategies of legitimation. It develops a framework of documentary legitimation, where each of the six modes recognized by...
TL;DR: The epistemological commitments of mode-based meaning making in science have been discussed in this article, where the authors show that science is supported by different modes, such as spoken and written language, images and gestures, all of which have different affordances.
Abstract: Meaning making in science is supported by different modes, such as spoken and written language, images and gestures, all of which have different affordances. The epistemological commitments of mode...
TL;DR: The authors explored how people with disabilities struggle to be re-envisioned in contemporary China and used the Disabled Women's Album (DW Album) as a metaphor for their experience.
Abstract: Situated in a Chinese context, this study explores how people with disabilities struggle to be re-envisioned in contemporary China. In particular, this visual essay uses the Disabled Women’s Album ...
TL;DR: The authors employ a practice-led methodology to offer a creative examination of the digital trends, online practices, and shifting aesthetics of political documentary as it migrates in the inter-network.
Abstract: This article employs a practice-led methodology to offer a creative examination of the digital trends, online practices, and shifting aesthetics of political documentary as it migrates in the inter...
TL;DR: This paper found that negative perception of scientists is disquieting for the future of science and US economic and scientific competitiveness, drawing on studies suggesting that warmth guides people's judgments of soci...
Abstract: Negative perception of scientists is disquieting for the future of science and US economic and scientific competitiveness. Drawing on studies suggesting that warmth guides people’s judgments of soc...
TL;DR: This article studied visual and multimodal rhetoric and found that rhetorical objects are not able to provide documented understandings of how rhetorical objects were used by the speaker and the audience, but rather they can be seen as symbolic objects.
Abstract: Research into visual and multimodal rhetoric has been dominated by social scientific and textual perspectives that may not be able to provide documented understandings of how rhetorical objects are...
TL;DR: For over half a century, the Imagining of the Great War in the UK has been framed by the existence of two Western Fronts, one literary and the other historical.
Abstract: For over half a century, the ‘imagining’ of the Great War in the UK has been framed by the existence of two Western Fronts, one literary and the other historical. The authors and illustrators of ch...
TL;DR: Visual rhetoric is more often than not identified with the search for patterns of visual form and content which convey meaning in ways that resemble the meaning construed by known rhetorical figure as mentioned in this paper, which is a common theme in rhetorical discourse.
Abstract: Visual rhetoric is more often than not identified with the search for patterns of visual form and content which convey meaning in ways that resemble the meaning construed by known rhetorical figure...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse a selection of 30 online visual artworks in order to identify conceptual metaphors related to the target domain of DEPRESSION, and identify metaphors for depression.
Abstract: In this article, the authors analyse a selection of 30 online visual artworks in order to identify conceptual metaphors related to the target domain of DEPRESSION. While a lot of research has ident...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how political leaders used Instagram to execute self-presentation strategies in mayoral elections, including the dominant use of personalized tactics, and explore how these strategies affect the outcome of the election.
Abstract: This study aims to explore how political leaders used Instagram to execute self-presentation strategies in mayoral elections, including the dominant use of personalized tactics. The article reports...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine sensual, performative and embodied aspects of children's photographic representations of a monument that is central in their ethnographic research with children in Athens.
Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic research with children in Athens, the authors examine sensual, performative and embodied aspects of children’s photographic representations of a monument that is central in ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how international, innovative, multimodal, and representative the scholarship published in two visual communication journals, Visual Communication (VC) and VCS, is.
Abstract: This comparative review seeks to explore how international, innovative, multimodal and representative the scholarship published in two visual communication journals, Visual Communication (VC) and V...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address visual optimal innovations such as memes, advertising images and editorial cartoons which take Michelangelo's fresco The Creation of Adam as input, and rework it so that nove...
Abstract: This article addresses visual optimal innovations such as memes, advertising images and editorial cartoons which take Michelangelo’s fresco The Creation of Adam as input, and rework it so that nove...
TL;DR: In this article, a visual essay seeks to substantiate and illustrate the tenet that formal-structural elements in graphic design carry rhetorical functions, based on a National Geographic feature article.
Abstract: This visual essay seeks to substantiate and illustrate the tenet that formal–structural elements in graphic design carry rhetorical functions. Based on a National Geographic feature article, the au...
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated single-panel cartoons portraying official corruption in China's longest running state-owned cartoon newspaper Cartoon Weekly (Fengci yu youmo).
Abstract: This article investigates single-panel cartoons portraying official corruption in China’s longest- running state-owned cartoon newspaper Cartoon Weekly (Fengci yu youmo). A total of 433 cartoons ar...
TL;DR: The Graphics of Carving is a study of infographics -images used to teach a skill as mentioned in this paper, which was once considered a vital accomplishment because it involved issues of social status, etiquette and hygi...
Abstract: The Graphics of Carving is a study of infographics - images used to teach a skill. Carving was once considered a vital accomplishment because it involved issues of social status, etiquette and hygi...