This study employs an eye-tracking experiment with Instagram posts to explore how (political) actors can capture users’ attention with mobilizing messages and encourage political participation. Ground...

This study employs an eye-tracking experiment with Instagram posts to explore how (political) actors can capture users’ attention with mobilizing messages and encourage political participation. Ground...

The 1960s and 1970s opened up new avenues of leadership for China that had previously been beyond its reach. Promoting itself as the leader of the non-aligned states, the so-called Third World, China ...

The rise of visual mis/disinformation presents a significant challenge to democratic societies, as misleading visual content increasingly influences public opinion and decision-making. This study aims...

The article argues that Gandhi’s last fast, aimed at restoring peace amidst Hindu–Muslim riots triggered after India’s partition, was a divergence from all his previous fasts in his reason to undertak...

This study examines how social media users engage with visual populist content on Instagram and TikTok, specifically focusing on ‘de-demonization’ strategies used by party leader Riikka Purra of the p...

More than ten years ago, Schill’s (2012) review article was published on the visual aspects of political communication aiming to increase research in this field. It seems that scholars have reacted to...

More than ten years ago, Schill’s (2012) review article was published on the visual aspects of political communication aiming to increase research in this field. It seems that scholars have reacted to...

This book examines how government propaganda and everyday online activity shaped China’s digital nationalism in response to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on Weibo, it demonstra...

Journal of Visual Political Communication | 2 followers on LinkedIn. Journal of Visual Political Communication is a peer-reviewed journal on persuasive visual communication in politics. | The Journal ...

Review of: Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media, Catherine Bouko (2024) London: Routledge, 384 pp., ISBN 978-1-03250-506-0, p/bk, £39.99 ISBN 978-1-03250-5...

This study employs a visual analysis to investigate in which ways the American insurrection’s highly reproduced images compare to the Brazilian 8 January attack through the lens of visual framing. The...

This study employs an eye-tracking experiment with Instagram posts to explore how (political) actors can capture users’ attention with mobilizing messages and encourage political participation. Ground...

Art of all forms is inherently political, even if it does not pursue an explicitly political agenda. Who is and who is not depicted and what is commemorated and what is not can reflect power and repre...

The COVID-19 pandemic raised profound questions about the place of older individuals within political contexts. The visual landscape of the pandemic shapes our collective understanding of the crisis a...

The immense popularity of the sticker is due to its flexibility, both in relation to its mediacy and its rhetorical possibilities. But while stickers are used by a variety of senders, they are shunned...

As ephemeral and mobile signs, stickers have extremely diverse functions. While they have been used since the 1970s for primarily political reasons, stickers are a common sign to be found in a range o...

This article explores the typographic articulation of stickers in urban spaces of the Ruhr Area, Germany. Drawing on a data set of 5156 geo-referenced self-authorized stickers, it investigates their o...

Anthropogenic climate change is disrupting ecological balance more than ever. Germany, being the second of 23 developed countries that are responsible for half of all historical CO2 emissions, has a s...

The article explores the semiotic practice of using laptop stickers as a means of social, cultural and political stance-taking. To shed light on this communicative practice, it discusses the mobility ...