Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2160984
Allison Kwesell, Tianyang Gao, R. Cohen
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people faced life-threatening uncertainties with sociopsychological implications, and increased alcohol usage has been found to be a maladaptive form of coping induced by pandemic-related stress and isolation. Despite this, alcohol has also been found to increase people’s willingness to socialize and reduce stress. We employ visual self-narrative to investigate a research gap into the usage of alcohol, thereby examining the varying roles alcohol has played in people’s lives. Photographs offer deeper understanding through a collection of perishable data into social phenomena, and allow inquiry into sensitive topics with vulnerable populations. Our study, which found alcohol can play a helpful role in coping, further suggests photographic data should be considered in public health research.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-29DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2160982
Mohammad Ali, Dennis F. Kinsey
This article analyzes individuals’ subjective perceptions of the Mauritius oil-spill pictures as (un)forgivable offenses on the part of the oil-tanker company responsible for the spill. Utilizing Q Methodology, this research examined a Q sample of 37 crisis photos drawn from a concourse of 158 pictures published in various news media globally. The article identified at least two groups of people who indicated variant perceptions of the company upon recognition of pictures depicting the crisis. Their perceptions ranged from the most forgiving to the most unforgiving attitudes toward of the company. Explained with attribution theory, the pictures illustrating the extent of the damage seem to shift people’s perceived crisis responsibility from external to internal attributions. Real-world implications are also discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-29DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2160981
Julie Grandjean
This article explores through perspectives of rhetorical criticism the stories of two rivals planting their national flags in unexplored territories. Whereas the American flag on the Moon proved American technological superiority over the U.S.S.R.’s, the Russian flag in the Arctic can be seen as a political move by President Putin to recreate the lost grandeur of the Soviet Union and reenact the Cold War to revive his political support at home. By doing so and recording their exploits, the two actors created national narratives that go beyond the simple performance of erecting a flag; these images construct an affectual nationalist identity through elites’ performance of flag planting, and mass media’s staging of these political events as a “spectacle.”
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Pub Date : 2022-12-29DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2160983
K. Fattah
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2133334
Mark Heisten
Pages 279 279–280 With the original publication of The Book of Veles in 2021, Jonas Bendiksen, an editorial and creative photographer with the stalwart, independent agency Magnum Photos, sought to reveal the hidden world of commercial disinformation production. The book, now in its third printing, is a monograph with an essay and photography documenting the citizens’ daily lives in Veles, North Macedonia.
随着《韦勒斯之书》(the Book of Veles)于2021年的原始出版，坚定的独立机构马格南图片社(Magnum Photos)的编辑和创意摄影师乔纳斯·本迪克森(Jonas Bendiksen)试图揭示商业虚假信息生产的隐藏世界。这本书，现在是第三次印刷，是一本专著，有一篇文章和照片，记录了北马其顿Veles公民的日常生活。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2129655
T. J. Mesyn
{"title":"American Hurt: Vietnam Veteran Portraits and Perspectives","authors":"T. J. Mesyn","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2022.2129655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2022.2129655","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"29 1","pages":"266 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83477456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2129659
Natalia Mielczarek
This interpretive visual study expands the scholarship on editorial cartoons by relying on the neo-archetypal theory to understand what archetypes emerge throughout more than 500 drawings published during the lame duck period of the Trump presidency, how they are visually constructed, and what stories they tell during the 79-day period. The visual rhetorical analysis identifies the ruler, the hero, and the sidekick as the archetypes that shape the narrative arc of the cartoons. It also reveals an archetypal transfiguration of the ruler into the outlaw, illustrating how social shaming performed by the cartoons serves as a political tool of punishment.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2129656
Hyun Ju Jeong, Jihye Kim, D. Chung
Corporations are personifying their brands, particularly when communicating via social media. Applying the theoretical underpinnings of brand social presence and personification, this experimental study investigates whether and how personified brand visuals increase consumer engagement. Results find that personified visuals are more effective in engaging consumers than nonpersonified visuals, and this effect is mediated by the social presence consumers perceive from brands that further increases consumer-brand connections. The study highlights that brand personas matter in visual communication in garnering consumer engagement on social media, and this event occurs indirectly through the perceptions that brands are socially present and connected as human-like communicators. The findings also highlight the direct effect of personified visuals on consumer engagement. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2129658
Ajia I. Meux
A content analysis of 346 images was employed to study differences in racial presentations of Barack and Michelle Obama between the White House and African American media. The literature on symbolic interactionism, presidential and first lady presentation, African marriage, minority media, framing, and visual representation suggested there would be differences by medium in portrayals of the president and first lady on racial variables (egalitarianism, marital, affection, racialist, ethnic/cultural, kinship, political). Findings indicate that, across White House and African American media, the couple was often presented as egalitarian and affectionate. Statistical testing indicates that African American media were significantly more likely to depict Michelle Obama with racialist elements and the Obamas as a happy and affectionate married couple than the White House. A contradictory finding indicated that the White House was significantly more likely to focus on the extended family bonds of African Americans by depicting the Obamas in the presence of other Black people. This study is important because the Obamas are the first ethnic minority couple to hold the offices of president and first lady of the United States, and this study is the first to explore the two as an African American married couple. Findings extend research on how minority media help construct reality for their audiences and have implications for new White House image management strategies of presidents and first ladies.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2022.2133952
Lawrence J. Mullen
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