Hasanian ideas extended to visual art: the human figures and theme in Chinese landscape painting - Hailing Yu, Lixin Zhang, 2026 This study argues for a distinction between visual art and visual image in our understanding and analysis of visual communication. Referring to the social semio...

#OnlineFirst 🔖 'Hasanian ideas extended to visual art: the human figures and theme in Chinese landscape painting' by Hailing Yu and Lixin Zhang.

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Visual composition of the pitch deck: a multimodal analysis of entrepreneurial pitch presentations by Paula Cabezas.

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How expert designers foster expertise: a study of professional visual communication practice by Grant Ellmers, Marius Foley, PhD, and Juliana Peloche.

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#OnlineFirst 🔖 ‘And knowing is half the battle’: revisiting public service announcements and child safety lessons of visual communication from the G.I. JOE animated series by Brenna Miller, Elizabeth Dodge, Gloria Donnelly, Elysia Chandler, and Basil H Aboul-Enein

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Judging a book by its cover: comparing visual grammar analysis of book covers with an eye-tracking study on viewer perceptions - Long Li, Sixin Liao, 2026 This study represents an initial effort to integrate Visual Grammar analysis of book covers with an eye-tracking study of 65 Chinese viewers’ perceptions of 10 ...

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Visual Communication Vol. 25, No. 1, February 1, 2026 is now available online! Editorial Visual Communication is proud to announce its third Early Career Research Scholarship | Louise Ravelli and Janina Wildfeuer: https://doi.org/10.

📣 Visual Communication is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 25, No. 1, February 1, 2026, featuring an editorial, a practitioner piece, thirteen research articles, and four book reviews.

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#OnlineFirst 🔖 Choreo-graphic design: reappraising dance notation by Rob Tovey and Lynsey McCulloch doi.org/10.1177/1470...

Visual Communication Journal is proud to announce its third Early Career Research Scholarship!

With this annual scholarship, we are supporting promising researchers in early stages of their academic careers with appreciation and promotion of their work.

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An illustration showing a hand holding a smartphone with its camera app open, capturing an image of a cartoon purple cat. The camera screen displays the cat framed with a square outline, and several facial features—such as the eyes, ears, and nose—are highlighted with smaller boxes and connected by thin lines, illustrating an AI recognition process. The cat is slightly blurred in the background outside the phone screen, emphasising the focus on the camera's view.

Visual Communication editorial team is on a winter break between 19 December and 9 January. We wish you and our readership a relaxing and resting time during the holidays and all the best for 2026!

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#OnlineFirst 🔖 Branding of top Pakistani universities: a multisemiotic analysis of university logos on X by Fareeha Aazam, Pei Soo Ang, and Siang Lee Yeo: doi.org/10.1177/1470...

#OnlineFirst 🔖 (Re)constructed identities in the social media discourse of Nigeria’s #EndSARS by Charles Ononiwu, Adesina B Sunday, and Albert Lekan Oyeleye: doi.org/10.1177/1470...

#BookReview 🔖 Art as Communication: Aesthetics, Evolution, and Signaling

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#OnlineFirst 🔖 Humor, culture, and compliance in health crisis communication: a multimodal analysis of government-produced memes for a local community during a global pandemic by Xiaoping Wu and Richard Fitzgerald: doi.org/10.1177/1470...

#CfP! Special Visual Essays Issue on More-than-Human Perspectives in Visual Communication, guest edited by Juhri Salamet. Extended abstracts due 20 January 2026. More information: www.designresearchsociety.org/events/cfp-s...

#OnlineFirst "Operationalizing the male gaze: reconstructing Laura Mulvey’s analysis of visual pleasure" by Warren Buckland. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1470...

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Visual Communication Vol. 24, No. 4, November 1, 2025 is now available online!

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Online first: "Operationalizing the male gaze: reconstructing Laura Mulvey’s analysis of visual pleasure" by Warren Buckland.

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Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump - Christopher Hart, Steve Strudwick, 2025 The communicative style of right-wing populism is characterized by embodied modes of performance as much as verbal stylistic features. This article investigates...

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OnlineFirst: ‘Tiny canvases, big tales’: deciphering the concept of tax through Japanese children’s postcard drawings by Xiaoben Yuan: doi.org/10.1177/1470...

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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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)

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...

- 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.

- 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.

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

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

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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....

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

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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...

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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