Design follows politics? The visualization of political orientation in newspaper page layout:
Johanna Schindler,Philipp Müller +1 more
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This article explores how the political orientation of newspapers is reflected in their page layout by comparing the layouts of five German national quality newspapers exemplarily and exploratively in a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses.Abstract:
This article explores how the political orientation of newspapers is reflected in their page layout. The authors compare the layouts of five German national quality newspapers exemplarily and exploratively in a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses. Dimensions of comparison are typography, size, colouration, quantity and arrangement of elements. Results show systematic differences between the page layouts of left-wing and right-wing newspapers. These differences are reflected in the contrast of traditional and contemporary styles and also in the use of ideologically charged typography and colours. In addition, the size of headlines seems to be dependent on political extremity. Graphic design seems to work as an ideological symbol system with different layout styles quite consistently representing partisan positions. If media users could come to learn and recognize such visual patterns, layout could function as a visual frame for political messages.read more
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Looking left or looking right? Effects of newspaper layout style on the perception of political news
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Visual Methods for Political Communication Research: Modes and Affordances
TL;DR: This chapter takes a broad view on the visual dimensions of political phenomena whether or not they are pre-mediated into visual artifacts to provide a systematic overview of different resources, methods, techniques, and technologies to capture, analyze, and communicate aspects and insights of visual political communication.
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Designing Trust: Design Style, Political Ideology, and Trust in “Fake” News Websites
Thomas J Billard,Rachel E. Moran +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a visual analysis of both mainstream and fake news websites, identifying how fake news sites employ specific design elements in patterned ways that simultaneously establish themselves as legitimate claimants to the label of "news outlet" and differentiate themselves as outlets that can be depended upon to provide a certain class of political information that falls outside the mainstream.
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Visual identity of cities: designers’ tools and meanings
TL;DR: In this article, the visual identity of a city is both designer's creative as a political process and the visual culture of different stakeholders influenced the process of creating the iconographic meanings.
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