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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 2d

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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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 2d

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)

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 16d

- 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.

Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 16d

- 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.

Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 16d

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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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 17d

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....

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 20d

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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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...

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 20d

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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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Deconstructing a kaleidoscope of semiotic modes and audience perception of #multimodality in #advertising #discourse" by Irina Aleksić-
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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

"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....

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...

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

"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....

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

"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....

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...

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

'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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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

'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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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Multimodality and Reception Studies - Jacopo Castaldi, 2025

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

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/...

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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...

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

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/...

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...

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