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Branding in a Budding Industry: The Influence of Visual Cues on Consumer Behavior in the Cannabis Market Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Juan Mundel, Tao Deng, Hyejin Kim
This study investigates the impact of visual branding cues on consumer responses in the cannabis market. Visual communication plays a critical role in shaping consumer behavior and perception. Howe...
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Vision and Verticality: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Gary Bratchford and Dennis Zuev, Eds. (2024) Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Elvin Wyly
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Just accepted, 2024)
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Visual Autoethnography of Daily Sounds Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Juhri Selamet
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Just accepted, 2024)
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Noticeability of Stencils: The Case of Kadıköy Caferağa Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Kadir Çıtak, Çetin Tüker
This study investigates the noticeability of stencil prints containing various graphic elements in İstanbul, Turkey. A designated route was selected, and all stencil applications along this route w...
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Visual Framing of Afghan Refugees in Global News Media Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Shugofa Dastgeer, Desiree N. Hill
This study content analyzed visual frames of Afghan refugees during the first six months of the Taliban’s second regime (from August 15, 2021, to February 15, 2022). A total of N = 1,948 images fro...
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Casa de Paz (House of Peace) Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Ross Taylor
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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Visual Methodologies Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Lawrence Mullen
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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A Typology of Minimal Homepage Design: The Case of Global Fashion Brands Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Kostoula Margariti, Christina Boutsouki, Leonidas Hatzithomas
Fashion brands appeal to consumers based primarily on their design. Fashion brand websites act as avenues of communication with a strong appeal on consumers’ online behavior. At the same time, thei...
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How a Female Cartoonist Has Become Even More Famous Than Her Male Peers: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Ahmed Abdel-Raheem
Political cartooning has always been a male-dominated profession. Though this could be partly explained by the fact that many female cartoonists suffer sexism at work, it reignites the dreaded “wom...
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Visualizing the Finish Line: Exploring Capstone Courses in Visual Communications Programs Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Matthew J. Haught, David L. Morris II
As the number of journalism and mass communications programs offering a visual communications focused program grows, the curriculum of programs should be examined. This study uses open-ended questi...
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Loss and Renewal Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Lawrence Mullen
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Drawing the Invisible: A Study of Urban Space, Informal Migration of Construction Workers, and Precarity in Simon Lamouret’s The Alcazar Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Ritam Sarkar, Somdatta Bhattacharya
This article, situated at the intersection of urban studies and comics studies, seeks to interrogate the nature of urban migration and the lives of construction workers in Simon Lamouret’s The Alca...
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A Wondrous Note Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Ross Taylor
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination, by Christopher Pinney (Ed.) with The PhotoDemos Collective (Naluwembe Binaisa, Vindhya Buthpitiya, Konstantinos Kalantzis, Christopher Pinney, Ileana L. Selejan, and Sokphea Young) Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Leighton C. Peterson
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Remembering Paul Martin Lester, Ph.D. (1953–2023) Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Five Friends ( Marjorie Yambor, Paul Blankenmeister, Cynthia M. King, James W. Brown, Lawrence Mullen )
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Paul Lester, Ph.D. Memorial Contribution Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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#MADRES. Parodic Motherhood Discourses on Peruvian TikTok Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Florencia García-Rapp, Laura León
TikTok’s increasing cultural pervasiveness, leading to a myriad of practices and discourses, has turned the platform into a rich digital field site to interpret local dynamics. Here, we analyze vis...
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From Celebrity Stage to Digital Space: Mapping Discourse, Sensationalism, and Viralilty of Chris Rock vs. Will Smith’s 2022 Oscar Memes Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Nookaraju Bendukurthi, Tehseen Afzal, Obaid Bashir Wani
Memes, in their actual and potential forms, are an expressive media phenomenon. They are being used in a participatory form of communication to describe any event in the most inventively sarcastic ...
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Call for abstracts: Special Issue of VCQ on “The State of Visual Evidence” Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Browse Our Book Reviews Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 4, 2023)
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Complex Interconnections Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Lawrence Mullen
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 4, 2023)
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B8: Photographing the Legacies of Colonialism Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Olli Hellmann
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 4, 2023)
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Concrete or Abstract? The Effects of Picture Concreteness and Mental Illness Prevalence on Destigmatizing Mental Illnesses Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Roma Subramanian, Sungkyoung Lee, Jonathan B. Santo, Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway
This study investigated how picture concreteness (cartoon versus photo) and mental illness prevalence level (high versus low) in mental health messages influence mental illness stigma via a within-...
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Gateway Visuals: Strategies of Climate Photographers in the Digital Age Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Jonas Harvard, Mats Hyvönen
Visual climate change communication has seen increased scholarly attention in recent years, with a strong focus on science communication. However, less is known about the producers of climate image...
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Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual, by Jussi Parikka Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 T.J. Thomson
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 4, 2023)
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Representations of Obesity and COVID-19 in Leading Stock Photography Websites Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Dimitrinka Atanasova
Emerging research on the news representation of obesity and Covid-19 has found that obese individuals are overwhelmingly presented in stigmatizing ways in news article texts, but the visual represe...
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Reading Sense8: Visual Interchangeability and Queer Possibility in a “Post-Racial” World Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Anna E. Lindner
The science-fiction Netflix series Sense8 features eight “sensates” across the world who suddenly become telekinetically connected, able to inhabit each other’s bodies. I put forth the term visual ...
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Correction Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-24
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Viscomm 37 Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Lawrence Mullen
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2023)
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Resistance in Visual Narratives: A Multimodal CDA of Images of the #EndSARS Protests in Nigeria Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Ifeoluwa Awopetu, Innocent Chiluwa
Abstract This paper examines 25 purposively selected images of the EndSARS protests in Nigeria. The data is subjected to qualitative analysis, and analyzed from a multimodal analytic approach. Findings reveal that the task of creating credibility and realities of the protests through images is divided between the verbal and the visual modes. While the visual mode describes the actors, their goals,
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Instagramming the Political Image: Visual Campaigning Strategies of Successful Opposition Candidates in Turkey’s 2019 Mayoral Elections Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Gizem Melek
Abstract This study explores how opposition political candidates strategically use Instagram images for their election campaigns in a competitive authoritarian regime. The article focuses on Turkey’s 2019 mayoral elections and reports findings from 452 Instagram posts by the winning candidates in the three biggest cities (İzmir, Ankara, and İstanbul), all of whom are from the opposition, the Republican
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Shapes of Imagination: Calculating in Coleridge’s Magical Realm, by George Stiny Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Theodora Vardouli
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2023)
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Boulder Strong: A Large-Scale Collaborative Community Portrait Archive in the Wake of a Mass Shooting Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Ross Taylor
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2023)
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P. H. Emerson and the Experience of Vision Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Timothy Roy Gleason
P. H. Emerson was a doctor-turned-photographer who quickly gained acclaim in the 1880s, but who turned against his principles in the next decade. Emerson promoted his style of Pictorialism, known a...
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Cartoons and More Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Lawrence Mullen
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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Browse Our Book Reviews Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-28
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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Foreign Travel in Indiana: An Unintended Exploration of the Dogma of Photojournalism Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Kevin Moloney
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions, by Temple Grandin, with Betsy Lerner Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 David Staton
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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Performing Offense: Redrawing the Lines of Political Cartoons Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Snehal P. Sanathanan, Vinod Balakrishnan
Offense lurks behind the political cartoon like its shadow, capable of creating mixed reactions in the target. In terms of offense-giving, cartoonists are sometimes cautious and at other times cavalier, thereby causing intentional and inadvertent offense, respectively. This article examines the aspects of the political cartoon that facilitate the performance of offense, which is predominantly visual
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Political Cartoons as Burkean Frames of Acceptance: The Comic Framing of Ramaphosa’s Revolution Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Anneli Bowie
Although political cartoons have been read as criticism in Kenneth Burke’s burlesque rejection frame, this article presents an alternative reading, to consider their potential for expressing attitudes of acceptance via comic framing. A Burkean vocabulary for studying cartoons is provided, including the mechanism of perspective by incongruity, the attitudinal alignments of acceptance and rejection,
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“Shiny Happy People Laughing”: The Protest Paradigm, WUNC, and the Visual Framing of Political Activism Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Stephanie Geise, Axel Heck, Diana Panke
Media coverage of protest, particularly its visual framing, is crucial to the legitimacy and impact of protest movements. Typical patterns in media coverage of protests, which account for discrepancies between how protests are portrayed, are the protest paradigm and WUNC (worthy, united, numbers, commitment). In order to investigate how specific visual items and features of media images showing political
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Crisis, Spectacle, Drinking, and Toil Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Lawrence Mullen
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Crisis Management in This Visual Era: How People Perceive a Crisis-Hit Brand Through News Media Pictures Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Mohammad Ali, Dennis F. Kinsey
This article analyzes individuals’ subjective perceptions of the Mauritius oil-spill pictures as (un)forgivable offenses on the part of the oil-tanker company responsible for the spill. Utilizing Q Methodology, this research examined a Q sample of 37 crisis photos drawn from a concourse of 158 pictures published in various news media globally. The article identified at least two groups of people who
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Alcohol Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Visual Self-Narrative Longitudinal Study About Various Drinking Habits During COVID-19 Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Allison Kwesell, Tianyang Gao, Rose Cohen
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people faced life-threatening uncertainties with sociopsychological implications, and increased alcohol usage has been found to be a maladaptive form of coping induced by pandemic-related stress and isolation. Despite this, alcohol has also been found to increase people’s willingness to socialize and reduce stress. We employ visual self-narrative to investigate a research
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The Spectacle of Flags: The Russian and American Flags as Global Spectacles of National Identities Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Julie Grandjean
This article explores through perspectives of rhetorical criticism the stories of two rivals planting their national flags in unexplored territories. Whereas the American flag on the Moon proved American technological superiority over the U.S.S.R.’s, the Russian flag in the Arctic can be seen as a political move by President Putin to recreate the lost grandeur of the Soviet Union and reenact the Cold
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Toilers of the Shipyard: A Visual Account of the Working Lives of Dhaka’s Shipyard Workers Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Kazi Nazrul Fattah
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Photography and Environmental Activism: Visualising the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution by Conohar Scott Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Erik Palmer
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Browse Our Book Reviews Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-04
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Feast and Famine at VCQ Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Lawrence Mullen
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2022)
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A Hero, a Ruler, and a Sidekick Walk into a Voting Booth: Visual Archetypal Characters and Their Stories in Editorial Cartoons After the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Natalia Mielczarek
This interpretive visual study expands the scholarship on editorial cartoons by relying on the neo-archetypal theory to understand what archetypes emerge throughout more than 500 drawings published during the lame duck period of the Trump presidency, how they are visually constructed, and what stories they tell during the 79-day period. The visual rhetorical analysis identifies the ruler, the hero
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Constructing Love: Visual Representation of Blackness in the Obama Marriage Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Ajia Meux
A content analysis of 346 images was employed to study differences in racial presentations of Barack and Michelle Obama between the White House and African American media. The literature on symbolic interactionism, presidential and first lady presentation, African marriage, minority media, framing, and visual representation suggested there would be differences by medium in portrayals of the president
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American Hurt: Vietnam Veteran Portraits and Perspectives Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 T. J. (Tara Jean) Mesyn
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2022)
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The Book of Veles, by Jonas Bendiksen Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Mark Heisten
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2022)
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Being Present as ‘Real’ Humans on Social Media: How Do Personified Brand Visuals Lead to Consumer Engagement? Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Hyun Ju Jeong, Jihye Kim, Deborah S. Chung
Corporations are personifying their brands, particularly when communicating via social media. Applying the theoretical underpinnings of brand social presence and personification, this experimental study investigates whether and how personified brand visuals increase consumer engagement. Results find that personified visuals are more effective in engaging consumers than nonpersonified visuals, and this
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Visual Communication History Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Lawrence Mullen
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2022)
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FSA Photography as Street and Social Landscape Photography Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Timothy Roy Gleason
Because the Farm Security Administration (FSA) distributed the photographs to publications during the American Depression, this was likely the only widespread distribution of street and social landscape photography in the United States. This article aims to explore the two genres within FSA documentary photography. The relevance of this research is that the photographs are primary sources of American
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Returning the Gaze: A Visual Analysis of Jack Iwata’s Photography in Japanese American Internment Camps Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Roger C. Aden, Alexis J. Karolin
This work explores photography’s potential to return the gaze and challenge powerholders within spaces of control. The authors analyzed 167 photographs from the Japanese American National Museum Jack Iwata Photo Collection to understand disciplinary mechanisms within a carceral landscape and the potential surveillance therein. The authors concluded that these historical photographs can not only supplement
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Advertisements as Cultural Texts: Looking at Homemakers and Mothers in Mandate Palestine Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld
This article examines representations of homemakers and mothers occurring in ads appearing during Mandate Palestine. It is based on comprehensive research of about 150 ads, from dailies, women’s magazines, and manuals published in Hebrew at that time. In all ads, a feminine figure appears as the main character. The ads are analyzed, extracting the meanings inherent in them regarding the role and social
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Visual Framing of the Rohingya Refugees: A Comparative Examination from Newspapers in four Countries Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Bimbisar Irom, Porismita Borah, Stephanie Gibbons
Media depictions of refugees play a significant role in determining public attitudes toward policies and dispensation of aid. Given this centrality, the study analyzes prominent visual frames of the Rohingya refugee crisis in newspapers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, the United States, and Canada. We also examine the frames qualitatively. Findings show that overall coverage tended to focus on negative
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Colors of an Archetypal Life Visual Communication Quarterly (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Rabia Yaseen
Published in Visual Communication Quarterly (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2022)