Journal of Visual Political Communication

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📢 New Book Review in JVPC, Volume 12, Issue 1! @DrDGL reviews Visual Citizenship: Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media by Catherine Bouko (2024). DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc_0…

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Findings reveal the dominance of “confrontation” frames across agencies and countries, reinforcing research on conflict-driven news visuals in moments of democratic crisis.

Using visual analysis of 412 news images, the study examines how agency photographs frame democratic breakdown through lenses of agency, action, and conflict across two national contexts.

📢 New Article in JVPC, Volume 12, Issue 1! 
“Demolishing democracy: A comparative visual framing analysis” by Marina Petric compares visual news framing of the US Capitol insurrection and Brazil’s 8 January attack. 
DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc_0…

Findings show that visual attention matters for high-threshold participation (e.g. purchase intentions), while low-threshold actions (likes, shares) depend more on issue involvement—offering key insights for designing effective political social media campaigns.

Grounded in the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), the study examines how involvement levels, image types, and source cues shape users’ attention and responses to mobilizing political posts.

📢 New Article in JVPC, Volume 12, Issue 1!
 “Visual attention to mobilizing political social media posts” by Anna Gaul et al. uses eye-tracking to study how Instagram posts capture attention and mobilize political participation. 
DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc_0…

The article shows how the presence or absence of art contributes to meanings of place, revealing how cultural regeneration can also produce exclusion and marginalization when cities fail to enter a truly transindustrial phase.

Using explorative walking in deindustrialized urban spaces, the study compares places transformed by art with neighbouring areas where art—and industrial memory—is absent.

📢 New Article in JVPC, Volume 12, Issue 1! “Transindustrialization: Art, regeneration and cultural inequalities” by @DrDGL & @may_dinger examine how art shapes regeneration, memory and inequality in post-industrial cities. DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc_0…

The findings reveal shifting visual grammars—especially after the rollout of vaccines—and expose forms of visual ageism. The article calls for more nuanced and diverse representations of elderhood in political and media communication.

Drawing on visual content analysis of Der Spiegel and Die Apothekenumschau, the study explores how pandemic imagery shaped discourses on age, vulnerability, power, and governance in Germany.

📢 New Article in JVPC, Volume 12, Issue 1! “Shifting shadows: A visual analysis of the representation of older individuals in German media amidst the pandemic” by @JanicaEzz examines how older people were visually portrayed during COVID-19. DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc_0…

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Vigsø argues that while stickers offer strong communicative potential, they also create “rhetorical liabilities” that make them strategically risky for parties.
A key contribution to understanding political communication and semiotic practices.

The article analyses the mediacy and rhetorical affordances of stickers—highly flexible, visual, tactile, and usable almost anywhere—yet largely untouched by political parties.

📢 New Article in JVPC, Volume 11, Issue 2! “Parties against stickers?: On the reluctance of political parties to use stickers” by @ovigso explores why mainstream Scandinavian parties avoid stickers despite their widespread popularity. DOI: doi.org/10.1386/jvpc_0…