The Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dahmen, Nicole.

Contributor:

Thomson, T. J.

Series:

Routledge Journalism Companions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism, Pictorial.

Information visualization.

Visual communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (525 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

Representing the first collection of its kind, The Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism introduces fundamental topics and ideas, delineates the diversity and complexity of this growing field, and creates a foundation for future scholarship and study.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: visual journalism from above and below: exploring forms, definitions, structures, evolutions, challenges, considerations, and caveats

Section 1 Practices and processes

1 From then to now: a history of visual news

2 The photojournalistic paradox: trust in visual journalism

3 Iconic images: Production, performance, power

4 Visual news values

5 Visual news editing and crisis coverage

6 The importance of understanding audience behavior, editorial values, and business acumen in digital news design

7 Mobile storytelling and design: how to plan, design, and optimize for digital platforms

8 Generic visuals in the news

9 Embodied gatekeeping within visual news

10 Terror/izing images: citizens' visual reportage

Section 2 Theory, concepts, and values

11 Theorizing the visual: key debates, controversies, and questions for visual journalism

12 Seeing news: AI and human-centered media literacies

13 The process of visual ethics

14 Evolving technologies and practices of witnessing global wars and conflicts

15 User-generated video and news: evidence, storytelling, and ethics

16 Visual journalism, witnessing, and the contested terrain of victimhood

17 Seeking awe, finding shock: terrorism and extremism in visual journalism

18 Beyond the "iconic" climate visual: investigating absent representations of climate change

19 Critical issues in visual solutions journalism

Section 3 People and identities

20 Beyond the hegemonic gaze: toward an ethics of care in photojournalism

21 Rethinking gender ideologies through photojournalism: Life's "modern living" and editor Maria Sermolino

22 Visual semiotics of press photographs of persons with disabilities.

23 Desiring the disabled body: how disabled women are represented in visual journalism

24 The visualization of ordinary people in televised news

25 Photojournalism across cultures

26 Visual journalism and the representation of politicians

27 Just like us: celebrity journalism and the promise of visual access

Section 4 Audience interpretation and impact

28 Improving our conclusions about visual media effects

29 Effects of visual framing in multimodal news media environments

30 Measuring attention patterns: principles of eye-tracking as a research methodology

Section 5 Technologies, equipment, and forms

31 The visual frontier: the evolution of TV and video journalism

32 Visuals and news aggregators: macro and micro views

33 Immersive journalism with augmented and virtual reality

34 Data, data visualization, and interactives within news

35 Animation and journalism

36 Visual journalism on Instagram and TikTok

37 Social media live streaming (SMLS) in the digital news media: the case of Twitch

38 The evolution of global drone journalism

39 Unmasking deception: how computer vision could empower journalists in unveiling visual misinformation

Section 6 Conclusion

40 Possibilities, principles, and provocations for studying visual journalism into the future

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-040804-4

1-003-39134-6

1-04-040810-9

9781003391340

OCLC:

1528360840