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Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media and Culture provides a theoretical and empirical toolkit to examine implications of mediated images. It explores a range of approaches to visual analysis, while also providing a hands-on guide to applying methods to students' own work. The book:

An invaluable guide to analysing contemporary media images, this is essential reading for students and researchers of visual communication and visual culture. 

Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media and Culture provides a theoretical and empirical toolkit to examine implications of mediated images. It explores a range of approaches to visual analysis, while also providing a hands-on guide to applying methods to students' own work. The book:

An invaluable guide to analysing contemporary media images, this is essential reading for students and researchers of visual communication and visual culture. 

Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media and Culture provides a theoretical and empirical toolkit to examine implications of mediated images. It explores a range of approaches to visual analysis, while also providing a hands-on guide to applying methods to students′ own work. The book:

An invaluable guide to analysing contemporary media images, this is essential reading for students and researchers of visual communication and visual culture. 

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:

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.

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:

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.

This book addresses key challenges facing global political communication at a time in which transformations in political practice, media ecology and cultural expectations both threaten traditional democratic norms and point to potential new ways of enacting political democracy. Drawing upon the outstanding theoretical insights of Jay Blumler to our understanding of the norms and practices of political communication, but also critically interrogating and updating them where appropriate, the volume asks timely questions about what publicness and democracy mean in the 2020s.

Many people are talking and writing about the crisis of political democracy, fewer are talking about the role of the media in relation to that crisis. While many scholars have responded in an ad hoc way to the various crises of populism, polarisation, mis and disinformation, this book shows how Jay Blumler’s scholarship provides us with the tools and framework to research and understand the changing communication environment systemically and rigorously. The book demonstrates the applicability and relevance of Blumler’s work in explicating the current crisis of communication and the need for fresh and radical thinking in tackling it. The book''s breadth and depth of chapters from a broad range of scholars from the East and West, ranging from long-standing contributors to the field to those in the early stages of their career, combine to produce a thoughtful and provocative invitation to reflect upon the concept of a ‘crisis of public communication’. We expect this book to become a major source for political communication students and scholars.