Journal of Visual Political Communication

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Vigsø argues that while stickers offer strong communicative potential, they also create “rhetorical liabilities” that make them strategically risky for parties.
A key contribution to understanding political communication and semiotic practices.

The article analyses the mediacy and rhetorical affordances of stickers—highly flexible, visual, tactile, and usable almost anywhere—yet largely untouched by political parties.

📢 New Article in JVPC, Volume 11, Issue 2!

“Parties against stickers?: On the reluctance of political parties to use stickers” by Orla Vigsø explores why mainstream Scandinavian parties avoid stickers despite their widespread popularity.

DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc...

Building on recent scholarship viewing stickers as a contemporary form of street art, the article highlights how they multimodally express sociocultural and political–economic issues, offering a democratic form of public communication.

The study explores stickers as ephemeral, mobile signs appearing across everyday spaces—from lampposts to laptops—where they convey political, regulatory, commercial and artistic meanings.

📢 New Article in JVPC, Volume 11, Issue 2!
“Analysing political activism from below” by Kellie Gonçalves, Federico Erba & Forugh Semadeni examines how stickers act as grassroots tools of political activism in Switzerland.
DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc...

Findings highlight stickers as a distinct medium in linguistic landscapes—using typefaces, graphic citations and visual strategies to express social tensions and urban self-representation.

Using a mixed-method approach, the study explores stickers on politics, football and place identity across the Ruhr Area, revealing how typographic and graphic choices convey ideology, mark territory and build local identity.

📢 New Article in JVPC, Volume 11, Issue 2!
“Sticker culture and its typographic articulation: Politics, football and identity of place in the Ruhr Area” by Irmi Wachendorff analyses 5,156 geo-referenced stickers to show how typography shapes meaning in urban space.
DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc...

Using a multimodal social semiotic approach, the article shows how environmental activists use stickers to voice concerns, mobilize support and reshape the semiotic landscape—turning local resistance into a visible global message.

Once a small rural village, Lützerath became globally symbolic in Germany’s climate debate as activists opposed its excavation by energy giant RWE.
This study examines its stickerscape as a dynamic, bottom-up communicative practice in public space.

📢 New Article in JVPC Volume 11, Issue 2!
“The stickerscape of environmental activism in Lützerath” by Laura Imhoff explores how stickers became key semiotic tools in the environmental activism surrounding the village of Lützerath.
DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc...

Drawing on chronotopes, social semiotics and stance-taking theory, the study analyses stickered laptops and student questionnaires from Switzerland and Germany. It shows how stickers signal identity, community and political positions—shaped by the mobility of laptops.

Unlike unauthorized stickers in public space, laptop stickering is tied to personal devices, creating a distinct genre shaped by mobility, materiality, and affiliation. As laptops move through different contexts, sticker meanings shift and gain new indexical value.

📢 New Article in JVPC’s Special Issue “Self-Authorized Discourses: The Case of Stickers”!

“Taking a stance with laptop stickers” by Cornelia F. Bock & Florian Busch examines how laptop stickers visually express social, cultural and political stances.

DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc...

Introducing “self-authorized” signage, they call for richer multimodal and linguistic approaches and highlight gaps such as overlooked regulatory stickers and the need for better inventories.

Together, the editorial + 5 papers offer fresh insights into stickers in public space. ✨

Their editorial shows how stickers have moved beyond commercial use to become tools for identity expression, political stance-taking, and grassroots activism across urban and rural contexts.

📢 New Special Issue Released!
Self-Authorized Discourses: The Case of Stickers is now out in JVPC.

Includes 1 editorial + 5 articles on stickers as communicative artefacts.

Opening editorial: “Small is beautiful!?” by Gertrud Reershemius & Evelyn Ziegler.

DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc...

Call for Papers: AI, Public Opinion, and Democratic Resilience Special Issue of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research Guest Editors: Homero Gil de Zuñiga and Hugo Marcos-Marne Editor-In-Chief: Porismita Bora

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Creative digital resistance on China’s Virtual Wailing Wall - Xueyan Cao, Dechun Zhang, 2025 This study examines how China’s Virtual Wailing Wall evolved from a site of public expression into a form of alternative political participation, shaping broade...

Our paper with @xueyancao.bsky.social, "Creative Digital Resistance on China’s Virtual Wailing Wall," now in China Information! We explore how the platform evolved from pandemic critique to personal narratives that challenge dominant political narratives. Detail: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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