Research Handbook on Visual Politics

Edited by Darren Lilleker, Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research and Anastasia Veneti, Department of Humanities and Law, Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK

• Contents:Introduction to the Research Handbook on Visual Politics xviiDarren Lilleker and Anastasia VenetiPART I THEORIES AND METHODS1 Visual rhetoric and the analysis of persuasive political communication 2Chris Miles2 Visualizing values: cultural dimensions in the visual framing ofCOVID-19 vaccination campaigns in Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. 14Lulu Rodriguez, Daniela V. Dimitrova, Muhammad Noor Fakhruzzaman andVitoria Faccin-Herman3 Eye-tracking methodology in research on visual politics 29Franziska Marquart4 Computational visual analysis in political communication 41Yilang Peng and Yingdan Lu5 Politics of (comics) representation: visualising embodied research and data 54Alexandra P. Alberda and Anna FeigenbaumPART II DEPICTIONS OF POWER6 Visual narratives and the legitimation of power: foreign monarchsversus national elites in nineteenth-century Greece 69Christina Koulouri7 Islamic State, strategic self-othering and the weaponisation ofpropaganda images 81Jared Ahmad8 Imaged communities: the visual construction, contestation andcommercialisation of the nation 94César Jiménez-Martínez9 The visual representation of politicians 108Dennis Steffan10 The faces of leadership: picturing power in democratic countries anddictatorial regimes 122Luciano Cheles11 Artivism as transformative practice: the case of Non Una Di Meno 137Lidia SalvatoriPART III DEPICTIONS OF AUTHENTICITY12 Me, myself and I: selfies as vehicles of personalised politics in thesocial media era 152Maja Šimunjak13 Social media, visuals, and politics: a look at politicians’ digital visualhabitus on Instagram 166Vincent Raynauld and Mireille Lalancette14 Authenticity and anachronistic media forms: visual presentations ofpoliticians in party-political broadcasting 180Vincent Campbell15 Leaders’ visual communication styles: between personalisation and populism 193Roberta Bracciale and Antonio Martella16 When visual communication fosters leaders’ exceptional and ordinaryimage: the Salvini case 214Marco Mazzoni and Roberto Mincigrucci17 Politainment as dance: visual storytelling on TikTok among Spanishpolitical parties 227Rocío Zamora-Medina18 Judging a book by its cover: political impression management onInstagram: privatization and voter engagement 243Stéphanie De Munter, Philippe De Vries and Christ’l De LandtsheerPART IV DEPICTIONS OF IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES19 Peripheral cues and the power of simple images 258Darren Lilleker and Panos Koliastasis20 Understanding the meanings of visuals: the motivations and values ofBlack Lives Matter and social justice art activists 267Gabriel B. Tait21 LGBTQ+ visual activism 283Tessa Lewin and Olu Jenzen22 Memes as vernacular politics 297Viktor Chagas23 Political engagement and satire: a change in the conversation 309Mehnaaz Momen24 ‘What’s Your Warrior?’ Selling service in the United States Army usingsocial media, superheroes, and computer games 321Brendan MaartensPART V DEPICTING REALITY25 Indeterminacy, performativity and the ‘dialectics of the real’: theproblem of knowledge in the analysis of visual politics 335Matteo Stocchetti26 The political work of war and conflict images 345Katy Parry27 The political symbolism of flags in revolutionary movements: the caseof the 1821 Greek War of Independence 359Anastasia Veneti and Stamatis Poulakidakos28 Look into my lies: the strategic use of photography in UK Gov’s 2021coronavirus campaign 371Bernadine Jones and Ellie Macdonald29 Photojournalists as NGO advocates: balancing between two realities 382Jenni Mäenpää30 Watching the watchers: sousveillance as a political response tosurveillance society 396Paul ReillyIndex

‘Lilleker and Veneti’s (2023) new work, the Research Handbook on Visual Politics is the next milestone in the research of visual political communication with its thirty chapters in five thematic areas. The edited volume offers both theoretically and methodologically valuable insights into the area of visual politics. The editors carefully built up the structure of the book to cover a wide variety of topics, actors, periods, mediums, and platforms in the chapters, and to provide a broad basis for visual political communication research.’