Visual Political Communication

Anastasia Veneti is Senior Lecturer in Marketing Communications at Bournemouth University, UK. Her research lays at the intersection of media and politics, including (visual) political communication, digital political campaigning, media framing, protests and social movements, and photojournalism. She is Convenor of the Centre for Politics and Media Research at Bournemouth University.Daniel Jackson is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK. His research broadly explores the intersection of media and democracy, including news coverage of politics, the construction of news, political communication, and political talk in online environments. He is Convenor of the Journalism Research Group at Bournemouth University. Darren G. Lilleker is Associate Professor in Political Communication at Bournemouth University, UK. His expertise is in public engagement in politics, and he has published widely on the professionalisation and marketisation of political communication. He is editor of the Palgrave Macmillan series Political Communication and Campaigning.

• 1 Introduction: Visual Political Communication (Darren G. Lilleker, Anastasia Veneti, Daniel Jackson).- Part I Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Visual Political Communication.- 2 The Digital Transformation of Visual Politics (Paul Messaris).- 3 The power of visual political communication: pictorial politics through the lens of communication psychology (Darren G. Lilleker).- 4 The Interdisciplinary Roots and Digital Branches of Visual Political Communication Research (Roman Gerodimos).- 5 Visual Methods for Political Communication Research: Modes and Affordances (Luc Pauwels, University of Antwerp).- Part II The Use of Visuals in Political Campaigning.- 6 From Analogue to Digital Negativity ‒ Attacks and Counter-Attacks, Satire and Absurdism on Election Posters Offline and Online (Bengt Johansson, Christina Holtz-Bacha).- 7 Political parties and their pictures. Visual communication on Instagram in Swedish and Norwegian election campaigns (Uta Russmann, Jakob Svensson, AndersOlof Larsson).- 8 Visual Political Communication in Italian electoral campaigns (Edoardo Novelli).- Part III Visual Governance.- 9 The Visual Presidency of Donald Trump First Hundred Days: Political Image Making and Digital Media (Ryan T. Strand, Dan Schill).- 10 Greek Political Leaders on Instragram: Between ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ personalisation (Stamatis Poulakidakos, Iliana Giannouli).- 11The political power of smiling. How politicians’ displays of happiness affect viewers’ gaze behavior and political judgments (Michael Sülflow, Marcus Maurer).- Part IV Citizen-led Forms of Visual Political Communication.- 12 #MoreInCommon: Collective Mourning Practices on Twitter and the Iconisation of Jo Cox (Katy Parry).- 13 Picturing the political: Embodied visuality of protest imagery (Bolette B. Blaagaard).- 14 Connective Politics, Videos and Algorithms: YouTube’s Mediation of Audiovisual Political Communication (Andrea Medrado, Simone do Vale, Adilson Cabral).

“This collection is a welcome intervention that, in the editors’ words, places visuals at the ‘epicenter’ of the relationship between political communicators and audiences. The various chapters draw our attention to a number of important developments, in particular, the rise of social media, and go some way to addressing what remains an ‘under researched area’ in political communication, providing a theoretical framework and methodological guidelines to aid future studies. I would recommend this collection to all those interested in understanding and analyzing political visuals in contemporary democracies.” (James Stanyer, The International Journal of Press-Politics. Vol. 26 (1), January 1, 2021)