Visual Communication

Papers
(The median citation count of Visual Communication is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The legitimation of screenshots as visual evidence in social media: YouTube videos spreading misinformation and disinformation19
Book review: Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension12
Book review: Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design10
Fictional mapping: the nature of cartography in film production10
Book review: The Space between Look and Read: Designing Complementary Meaning9
Relentless Melt: visual trends and aesthetics of contemporary visual music films in Hong Kong8
Design and repair: from object conservation to material transformation8
‘Imagine talking about politics in a kids’ game’: Making sense of #BLM in Nintendo’s Splatoon 25
A computer-assisted analysis of image representations of obesity: comparing UK news content with the World Obesity Federation Image Bank5
Literate matterings: young artists creating and talking about photography and meaning5
Michel Pastoureau and the history of visual communication5
Visual Communication is proud to announce its second Early Career Research Scholarship4
Book review: Flags, Color and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity and Critique4
The smart home: a visual analysis4
Net icons and memetic imagery of protest in online activism4
Generational differences in viewing behaviors: an eye-tracking study4
Book review: Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics: Theory and Application4
The epistemological commitments of modes: opportunities and challenges for science learning4
Gender bias in movie posters through the lens of Spatial Agency Bias4
Book review: Multimodal Literacy in School Science: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory, Research and Pedagogy4
‘Seeing’ music from manga: visualizing music with embodied mechanisms of musical experience3
Book review3
Book review: Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space3
Creative and visual communication of health research: development of a graphic novel to share children’s neighbourhood perspectives of COVID-19 lockdowns in Aotearoa New Zealand3
Matter, meaning and semiotics3
Football fan choreographies as multimodal performances3
The role of rhythm in science-animated videos: construing entities and bridging across different semiotic modes3
Fear generation in the multimodal communication of sexual and reproductive health to Malaysian adolescents3
Book review: Multimodal Experiences across Cultures, Spaces and Identities3
The eye at hand: when visually impaired people distribute ‘seeing’ with sensing AI3
Practice and product: a social semiotic approach to visual communication in sexual and reproductive health promotion3
The rhythms of cancer survivorship3
Book review: Visual and Multimodal Communication: Applying the Relevance Principle3
Book review: Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design2
Understanding emotional responses to visual aesthetic artefacts: the SECMEA mechanisms2
Visual narratives of environmental change: collective memory and identity at New Zealand heritage sites2
Your smile works: understanding smiling face emojis in social media interactions2
Visual framing of climate change during natural disasters at home and abroad: an analysis of British news2
Book review: To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions and Identities behind News Images2
Visual themes and frames of the Rohingya crisis: newspaper content from three countries neighboring Myanmar2
Liquid power: reading the infinity pool as a global semioscape2
Book review: Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media BoukoCatherine, Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media. New Yo2
Book review: The Aesthetics of Scientific Data Representation: More than Pretty Pictures2
Book review: Gesture and Multimodality in Second Language Acquisition: A Research Guide2
Touching heritage: embodied politics in children’s photography1
Visually informed accounts: instructed achievements during planetarium visits and sky observations1
Book review: Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies1
Performing different forms of ‘sociable authenticity’ in five bakery shops in Sweden using the semla pastry as a prominent multimodal resource1
International, innovative, multimodal and representative? The geographies, methods, modes and aims present in two visual communication journals1
Semiotics of the black box: on the rhetorics of algorithmic images1
Representing cervical cancer in a government social media health campaign in China: moralizing and abstracting women’s sexual health1
‘Foodstagramming’ in early 20th-century postcards: a transhistorical perspective1
Book review: Multimodality Across Classrooms: Learning About and Through Different Modalities1
In praise of visual representation: an inquiry into text analysis and network visualization for charting scientific communities1
Resemiotization: tracing the movement of resources in landscape architectural design trajectories1
Corpus-based insights into multimodality and genre in primary school science diagrams1
Evading Big Brother: Using visual methods to understand children’s perception of sensors and interest in subverting digital surveillance1
Book review: Genre Networks: Intersemiotic Relations in Digital Science Communication1
Book review: Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime, and Punishment in Visual Media1
Photographic ways of seeing: corporeal defamiliarizations within the mirror medium1
Learning through mess: Sensemaking visual communication practices in a UK multidisciplinary applied health study1
Exploring the contemporary Moon Under Water through illustration: nostalgia and the power of the image1
Sculpting the interpersonal: towards a social semiotic framework for analysing interpersonal meaning in statues1
Connecting stars and microcosms: visualization bridging astronomy and polaritonics1
Toxic tours and coastal contestation: a photo-essay of the local politics of desalination in California1
Visual representation of the menopause in Iran1
Logico-semantic relations between spoken text and slides’ visual elements in student presentations conducted online in the English as a Foreign Language context0
Superhero contra butcher: Zelensky and Putin in political cartoons on Russian aggression0
Experiencing multimodal rhetoric and argumentation in political advertisements: a study of how people respond to the rhetoric of multimodal communication0
‘All your image are belong to us’: heritagization, archiving and historicization of memes0
Construing chemistry knowledge through images: a social semiotics perspective0
Book review: Jr Martin and Len Unsworth, Reading Images for Knowledge-Building: Analyzing Infographics in School Science0
A multimodal critical discourse analysis of city as text: investigation of meaning metafunctions of Rasht’s Imam Khomeini Street0
Book review: Communicating Knowledge Visually: Will Burtin’s Scientific Approach to Information Design0
Evaluating animentary’s potential as a rhetorical genre0
Book review: Multimodality and Identity0
Visual-related conflicts in close relationships0
Visualizing invisible information: a scoping review of present findings, challenges and opportunities on tactile graphics design0
Book review: Multimodal Texts in Disciplinary Education: A Comprehensive Framework0
Book review: Women in Social Semiotics and SFL: Making a Difference0
Self-presentation strategies and the visual framing of political leaders on Instagram: evidence from the eventful 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections0
The rhetoric of multimodal communication0
Imaging cancer: image-based diagnostic communication in radiologists’ embodied cognition0
Book review: Experimental Games: Critique, Play and Design in the Age of Gamification0
Exploring the distinction between populism through and by the media from a visual perspective: representations of German politicians on magazine covers of Der Spiegel and Compa0
Visual Communication is proud to announce its Early Career Research Scholarship0
Artists’ books as a qualitative research methodology in multidisciplinary contexts0
A blind spot in AI-powered logo makers: visual design principles0
Visualizing dementia and stigma: a scoping review of the literature0
Computing colorism: skin tone in online retail imagery0
Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication0
The politics of typographic placemaking: the cases of TilburgsAns and Dubai Font0
Photography as play: examining constant photographing and photo sharing among young people0
Analyzing picturebooks: semiotic, literary, and artistic frameworks0
Drone views: a multimodal ethnographic perspective0
Tailings and tracings: using art and social science to explore the limits of visual methods at mining and industrial ruins0
Drawn into the future: The epistemic work of visual scenarios in the configuration of human–robot encounters0
Introduction: hyper-visuality: images in the era of social platforms, digital archives and computational economies0
Going against the grain? Appraising the aesthetic labour of male beauty influencers on Instagram0
Facing aging: Face Shadow0
Alien domesticity: representing home during a pandemic0
Sculpting Foucauldian power in Game of Thrones as a transmedia project: a systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis0
Showing climate action: exploring Fridays for Future Germany’s visual activism on Flickr0
Exploring game grammars: a sociosemiotic account of young people’s game-making practices0
Book review: Shifts Toward Image-Centricity in Contemporary Multimodal Practices0
Visualizing political communication on Spanish social media: an analysis of Andalusian political parties’ communication on Instagram0
Signs of #self: a Peircean semiotic framework for theorizing self-(re)presentations on Instagram0
From visual rhetoric to multimodal argumentation: exploring the rhetorical and argumentative relevance of multimodal figures on the covers of The Economist0
Book Review: A Theory of Narrative Drawing0
Saudi women driving: images, stereotyping and digital media0
Tracing The Shapes of Multimodal Rhetoric: Showing the Epistemic Powers of Visualization0
Rhythm in literary apps0
Corrigendum to Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement0
Book review: Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem0
Book review: Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media0
Typicality effect in data graphs0
Visual communication and the management of passenger conduct: A visual analysis of transit etiquette posters by Japanese railway companies0
Visual communication and mental health0
Book review: Making Sense: Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning0
Book review: The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation0
Visual design for sexual and reproductive health promotion: a global perspective0
Politics of visual discourse in China: the corruption cartoon0
An Australian agri-industrial landscape sublime0
Script-switching in Japanese pop culture: a social semiotic multimodal approach0
The clarity and correctness of visualized thrust actions: a description and insights from users and experts0
The optometry of visual communication: the Museum of Vision Science0
A scanner darkly: augmented reality face filters as algorithmic images0
Book review: Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Multimodal Phenomena0
Book review: Photographs and the Practice of History0
Designing and sharing travelogues on Chinese WeChat Moments: a social semiotic analysis of Nine Picture Limit0
Analysing gender fluidity representation in perfume bottles with heterosexual matrix theory0
Forging New Narratives0
Intersemiotic emergence in sketchbook-mediated design learning0
Opening up semiotic spaces for gender expression: a case study of the construction of gender in Australian award-winning early childhood picture books0
Editorial: Information Is Ugly0
Book Review: Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture0
Visual protest repertoires and protesters’ health identity: a battlefield of the anti-new normal movement0
Female archetypes in car advertising: the case of Audi0
‘Let’s buy money before buying food’: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of WhatsApp memes on the Nigerian Naira redesign policy0
A down-to-earth visual representation of contemporary China: analysing the video game Chinese Parents0
Celebrating 20 Years of Visual Communication0
A social semiotic study of public institutional websites focusing on teenage pregnancy in Brazil0
Exploring the ecosystem of meaning: representation of gesture and its contribution to the visual communication of attitude in South African picture books0
Multimodal resources in the ‘Get It Together’ reproductive health campaign in Nigeria0
Book review: The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power0
Book review: tumblr0
Visual realism and character identification in science comics: an empirical study testing McCloud’s ‘masking effect’ theory0
Applying health design thinking to uncover actors in the sustenance of health and wellbeing during hotel quarantine in kuwait0
Book review: Empirical Multimodality Research: Methods, Evaluations, Implications0
Walking through the city soundscape: an audio-visual analysis of sensory experience for people with psychosis0
‘Domani a quest’ora potresti essere qui’: multimodal practices for representing temporality in destination advertising0
Legitimation in documentary: modes of representation and legitimating strategies in The Lockdown: One Month in Wuhan0
Facing cancer: metaphors in medical animation films0
Taking a knee: Haunted memetic counter-activism0
From photo documentation to photo diagrams: a technique to make civic ecologies present and legible0
The operation of différance in a student-produced digital video: insights into differing and deferring signifier operations and relations in multimodal discourse0
Design timescapes: futuring through visual thinking0
The Riverine Archive: Nausea and information loss on the neoliberal ship of fools0
The things they are a-changin': reinventing daily objects during the chilean 2019 revolt0
The mediatic dimension of images: visual semiotics faced with Gerhard Richter’s artwork0
Let there be . . . visual optimal innovations: making visual meaning through Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam0
How existing literary translation fits into film adaptations: the subtitling of neologisms in Harry Potter from a multimodal perspective0
Book review: Free the Map: From Atlas to Hermes – A New Cartography of Borders and Migration0
Book review: Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s0
A Mama for Owen: re-addressing adoption creatively in an accordion of visual parallelism0
China’s Instagram war on COVID-19: picturing healthcare workers and governance in Xinhua’s photographs0
Landcare and landscapes and accidental beauty: failing digital technologies and the gaze of child researchers0
Misconceptions: a multimodal study of Danish contraception information0
Book review: Essentials of Visual Interpretation0
The Rijksmuseum’s Slavery exhibition, 5 June–29 August 20210
Book review: Literacy and Identity through Streaming Media: Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix0
Authentic Roman type: historical legacies in contemporary Rome’s city brand0
Book review: Visual Politics in the Global South VenetiAnastasiaRoviscoMaria (eds) Visual Politics in the Global South. Chichester: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 323 pp. ISBN: 978-3-031-22781-30
Rethinking visual criminalization: news images and the mediated spacetime of crime events0
An observational sketch essay of an undocumented immigrant hunger strike in Brussels0
Book review: Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century0
Drawing on borders: a large-scale framing analysis of coronavirus in early UK news maps0
Afterword0
Representing Her Trajectory: reflections on an arts-based research on women migration and data visualization0
The urban aesthetics of graffiti murals: reproducing wall space in China’s urban renewal0
Editorial: in memoriam Martin Thomas0
Illustrating Stravinsky: integration of new media design in live Philharmonic Orchestra performance0
Connecting in the Gulf: digital inclusion for Aboriginal families on Mornington Island0
Computational approaches to the figurative and plastic dimensions of images0
Book review: Children Reading Pictures: New Contexts and Approaches to Picturebooks0
From researchers to academic entrepreneurs: a diachronic analysis of the visual representation of academics in university annual reports0
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