Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Visual Communication

Understanding Images in Media Culture

Av Giorgia Aiello, Katy Parry

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Beskrivning

How do images shape identities, politics and commodities?In today’s era of visual abundance, this book offers the tools to analyze the images that saturate our lives. With 18 richly contextualized case studies spanning global activism, political spectacle, lifestyle branding, and digital self-representation, it empowers readers to critically engage with visual media culture.In this second edition, you’ll discover:Six brand-new case studies, from the performance of masculinity by world politicians, to how identity is negotiated on TikTok;A research methods toolkit covering visual semiotics, multimodal analysis, and mixed methods, with clear comparisons to guide your choice;Global perspectives, exploring international climate activism, collective imaginations of Africa and Europe, and how wars are visualized;Activity boxes which apply theory to practice.Aimed at students and researchers of media, communication, and cultural studies, this book equips readers to navigate both the impact and implications of visual images in the twenty-first century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-19
Mått: 170 x 242 x undefined mm
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 304
Upplaga: 2
Förlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
ISBN: 9781529696240

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Giorgia Aiello is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on the politics and potentials of visual, multimodal, and material communication. Giorgia is interested in how aesthetics shape and are shaped by political, economic, and cultural agendas. Her work aims to uncover how identities are formed, how both difference and diversity are negotiated, and how inequalities are maintained or overcome through media and communication. She is a co-editor of Communicating the City: Meanings, Practices and Interactions (Peter Lang, 2017) and the author of many journal articles, book chapters, and short publications about branding, photography, data visualization, political imagery, and cities.Katy Parry is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Her work focuses on visual politics and activism, images of war and representations of contemporary soldiering. She is a co-author of Political Culture and Media Genre: Beyond the News (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) with Kay Richardson and John Corner, and a co-editor of Can the Media Serve Democracy? Essays in Honour of Jay G. Blumler (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), with Stephen Coleman and Giles Moss. Her current research interests include the visual expressions of political solidarity shared in response to the murder of Jo Cox MP during the Brexit referendum campaign, and the representational politics of the war veteran in contemporary media.

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The second edition of this outstanding book has been thoroughly updated to engage with the expanding digitalisation of contemporary visual culture and the widening range of social identities, politics and commodities that it pictures. With new reflections on digital research methods and extended discussions of what the authors call ’synthetic media,’ Visual Communication remains essential reading for anyone interested in what images are doing in the world today.

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