Visual Literacy and Visual Politics: Photojournalism and the 2004 Presidential Debates

Visualizing climate change: the role of construal level, emotional valence, and visual literacy

“…In terms of climate change, media scholars have called for maturing the education of literacy, including the literacy of understanding visual stories in the media, as the ability has been identi ed as a key strategy in improving public acceptance of climate science in today's age of digital information (Cooper 2011). Scholars believe that audiences have different levels of visual literacy, and more literate or sophisticated people tend to have heightened conscious awareness of how meaning is created visually (Edwards 2012) and elaborate the scienti c information more deeply (Lazard and Atkinson 2015). Thus, when researching effective science visualization, it is important to consider the audience's visual literacy levels and design visuals accordingly.…”

Pogled odozgo

“…Tako je zanimljivo videti na koji način se proučavaju Fejsbuk fotografije kandidata za opšte izbore u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama (Goodnow 2013), ili šta govore Fejsbuk slike rumunskih kandidata za izbore za Evropski parlament (Cmeciu 2014), po čemu se u vizuelnoj predizbornoj komunikaciji razlikuju Nikola Sarkozi u Francuskoj i Angela Merkel u Nemačkoj i šta to znači za politiku uopšte (Flicker 2013;Krogstad and Storvik 2010), kako švedski političari koriste Instagram za vođenje kampanje (Ekman and Widholm 2017; Russmann and Svensson 2017), a kako austrijski kandidati za predsednika koriste vizuelni storiteling na Instagramu (Liebhart and Bernhardt 2017) itd. Istraživanja se nekad fokusiraju na pojedinačne događaje, kao što je analiza legendarne fotografije Baraka Obame u sobi za vanredne situacije (McFarlan 2016) ili na pojedinačne koncepte, poput vizuelne pismenosti (Edwards 2012;Messaris 1997) i "selebriti" politiku (Wheeler 2013).…”

Creative Reconstructions of Political Imagery in an Instagram-Based Election Campaign: Implications for Visual Rhetorical Literacy

“…As regards amplifying visual confrontation and drama, Edwards (2012) explores how election debates are covered to foreground the oppositional positioning of candidates in a political spectacle that "sells well" and attracts attention. Indeed, there are some common visualization strategies that are routinely deployed to: (1) intensify political clash (with contrasting profiles, face-off poses); (2) neutralize positions (with standardization of selfpresentations); (3) introduce false symmetries (with mirroring footing, level, camera perspectives); or (4) demonize the opponent (with partisan media manipulating the imagery to the detriment of one candidate).…”