Visual Communication journal

OnlineFirst: "Revitalizing dry stone heritage through collaborative visual ethnography" by Ricard Espelt @ricardespelt.bsky.social, Enric Senabre Hidalgo, and Rosa Cerarols @soclarinxols.bsky.social
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How can we better understand the #blackBox of #algorithmicVision? A recent study by @tjthomson.bsky.social offers some answers! "Computer-mediated representations: a qualitative examination of algorithmic vision and visual style," journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (📖 open access)

Open access: "The effect of typographic text presentation on reader perceptions of importance in bilingual Māori–English picturebooks" by Nicholas Vanderschantz, Nicola Daly, and Vouchleang San: doi.org/10.1177/1470...

- Immersive methods capture the complexities of embodied and emotional experiences of place.

- Immersive media help document and represent the intangible aspects of place, supporting its preservation and cultural significance.

- Immersive media enhance ethnographic research by deepening the understanding of how people interact with their environments.

- Immersive media decentralize the traditional authority of the ethnographer, fostering reflexivity and collaborative interpretation.

Online First (open access): "360-degree #ethnography: #affordances and limitations in place-centric research" by Matteo Baraldo, Francesca Dolcetti, and Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco

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Online First: "Feminine power and Daoism: a review of Ba Wang Bian" by Xiao Lu (orcid.org/0009-0002-08...)

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Online First: "Profiling visual illness narratives: an exploration of online medical crowdfunding" by Mingfei Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, and Shaojing Sun

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A three-step guide to creating political villains: an intriguing new open-access visual essay in @viscomjournal.bsky.social by Maximillian Guarini - who we were lucky to host as visitor at @visualpolitics.bsky.social a couple of years ago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"Visual compositing: engagement, interpretation and visualization of Holocaust memory in digital culture" by Lital Henig

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Investigating multimodality, reception and civic participation on YouTube: a case study of the documentary ‘Greece: The Hidden War’ - Jacopo Castaldi, Iokasti Christina Foundouka, 2025 Social media have long provided opportunities for political and civic participation and YouTube is one of those social media platforms that has been studied and...

Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue
Multimodality and Reception Studies

Investigating multimodality, reception and civic participation on YouTube. A case study of the documentary “Greece: The Hidden War” by @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social and Iokasti Foundouka

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Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue
Multimodality and Reception Studies

"Visual Disinformation and Audience Reception: A Comparative Analysis of Media Richness, Sophistication, and Emotional Engagement in Chinese Social Media" by Yu Xiang journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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"Deconstructing a kaleidoscope of semiotic modes and audience perception of #multimodality in #advertising #discourse" by Irina Aleksić-
Hajduković:

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An audience reception study of danmu-enabled humour in multimodal texts - Lisi Liang, Siwen Lu, 2025 Danmu-mediated communication reveals the intricate process of audience participation and preference. Such intricacy of communication includes danmu subtitling a...

"An audience reception study of danmu-enabled humour in multimodal texts" by Lisi Liang and Siwen Lu. Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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"Children’s comprehension and interpretation of #narrative complexity in film: The tangled case of flashbacks" by Emilia Djonov, Chiao-I Tseng. Open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Linking multimodal cohesion, gaze behaviour and learning outcome in educational videos - Florian Schmidt-Borcherding, Leandra Thiele, John A Bateman, 2025 Multimodal design in educational videos is a complex task, requiring the effective integration of various semiotic modalities to promote understanding among rec...

"Linking #multimodal cohesion, scan paths and learning outcomes in #educational #videos" by Florian Schmidt-Borcherding, Leandra Thiele, John A. Bateman. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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'Insights into the black box of #multimodal meaning-making: Investigating the reception of Multimodality empirically' by Hans-Jürgen Bucher on experimental #ReceptionStudies, integrated with #multimodal text analysis.

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'Cluttered Screens – An Eye-Tracking Study of Visual Attention Allocation among Viewers of TV News' by Jan Hensellek focuses on the distribution of #visual #attention and #memory.

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Multimodality and Reception Studies - Jacopo Castaldi, 2025

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Finally, the contributions to the special issue are summarised, and their logical progression from multimodal text comprehension to multimodal text interpretation is justified drawing on Bordwell’s work on films.

Second, the editorial provides a taxonomy of reception studies and a summary of the main empirical findings they have offered to date.

Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue 'Multimodality and Reception Studies' 📑: | Visual Communication Journal Visual Communication - Issue 24.3 - Special Issue 'Multimodality and Reception Studies' 📑: 01** In 'Multimodality and Reception Studies,' Jacopo Castaldi, PhD, FHEA starts with a justification of th...

In 'Multimodality and Reception Studies,' @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social starts with a justification of the need to integrate reception studies within empirical multimodal research, whilst clarifying the dynamic and two-directional nature of multimodal communication. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This piece provides theoretical and practical frameworks for ‘design scholarship through #collage’ and ‘collage as #design scholarship’ through historical precedent, heuristic practice and examples of four collage projects by two practitioners of the medium.

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'Dancing with scissors: collage as visual design scholarship' by Steven McCarthy and Jessica Barness: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congratulations on your first publication titled 'Crafting Fantasies of Dominance: Visual Framing of Chinese and US Leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021,' Ziye Zang! | Visual Communica... Congratulations on your first publication titled 'Crafting Fantasies of Dominance: Visual Framing of Chinese and US Leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021,' Ziye Zang! Highlights: 1. Visuals a...

Online first, open access from Ziye Zang:
'Crafting Fantasies of Dominance: Visual Framing of Chinese and US Leaders in China Pictorial from 1950 to 2021,' highlights at: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This special issue guest-edited by Jacopo Castaldi, PhD, FHEA advances our understanding of how text-based multimodal research can be enriched by a reception-oriented perspective. | Visual Communicati... This special issue guest-edited by Jacopo Castaldi, PhD, FHEA advances our understanding of how text-based multimodal research can be enriched by a reception-oriented perspective. Together, the feat...

Special issue 'Multimodality and Reception Studies' guest-edited by @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social is available Online First. For a variety of methodological tools for exploring the entire communication process, from the creation of a text to its reception, check www.linkedin.com/posts/visual...

Explores: (1) the role of emojis as semiotic resources in her digital identity construction; (2) the mediation of her spatiotemporal identity dynamics by algorithmic infrastructures; and (3) the relationship between multimodal affordances, techno-affective elements and perceptions of authenticity.

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'Chronotopic layers of virtual authenticity: decoding Lil Miquela’s multi-faceted digital identity' by Nashwa Elyamany journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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"Mapping the emergence of visual biases in journalistic interactive visualizations" by Inbal Klein-Avraham and Zvi Reich: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

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In "From ‘good for her’ to ‘you in danger, girl’: text–image relationships in #GIF reply posts," Elizabeth Marsden and Alba Milà-Garcia explore text–image relationships within reply GIFs, 🗨️ with and without embedded text and/or user-added text:

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