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.
In the contemporary digital media landscape, still and moving images, interactive visualizations and virtual reality, are increasingly important to attract attention, cultivate engagement, inform, influence opinions, and provide a more emotive and immediate viewing experience for news audiences. This Companion draws together leading voices from academia and industry to survey this dynamic and ubiquitous mode and inspire dialogue. Structured in five parts, the volume covers people and identities; practices and processes; technologies, equipment, and forms; theories, concepts, and values; and audience interpretation and impact. Beginning by looking at the history of visual news, chapters go on to explore how visual news is created; how journalists visually represent gender, race, sexuality, religion, elites, and ordinary citizens; key ethical ideas and theories behind the creation of visual news; and how visual news is processed, drawing in research from eye-tracking, media psychology, and media literacy. The book ends with a critical look to the future of the field.
The Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism is a recommended resource for all advanced students and researchers of Visual Journalism and Communication and will also be of interest to practitioners in these fields.
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.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Visual journalism from above and below: Exploring forms,
definitions, structures, evolutions, challenges, considerations, and caveats
T. J. Thomson and Nicole Dahmen
Section 1: Practices and processes
Chapter
1. From then to now: A history of visual news
Keith Greenwood
Chapter 2: The photojournalistic paradox: Trust in visual journalism
Asko Lehmuskallio and Paula Haara
Chapter 3: Iconic Images. Production, Performance, Power
Marco Solaroli
Chapter 4: Visual News Values
Helen Caple
Chpater 5: Visual news editing and crisis coverage
Maria Nilsson
Chapter 6: The importance of understanding audience behavior, editorial
values, and business acumen in digital news design
Al Lucca
Chapter 7: Mobile storytelling and design: How to plan, design and optimize
for digital platforms
Mario R. Garcķa
Chapter 8: Generic visuals in the news
Giorgia Aiello, Helen Kennedy, and C. W. Anderson
Chapter 9: Embodied gatekeeping within visual news
Kyser Lough
Chapter 10: Terror/izing Images: Citizens Visual Reportage
Stuart Allan
Section 2: Theory, Concepts, and Values
Chapter 11: Theorizing the visual: key debates, controversies, and questions
for visual journalism
Ilija Tomani Trivunda
Chapter 12: Seeing News: A.I. & human-centered media literacies
Paul Mihailidis and James Cohen
Chapter 13: The Process of Visual Ethics
Don Heider
Chapter 14: Evolving Technologies and Practices of Witnessing Global Wars and
Conflicts
Sandra Ristovska and Anat Leshnick
Chapter 15: User-Generated Video and News: Evidence, Storytelling, and
Ethics
Mary Angela Bock
Chapter 16: Visual journalism, witnessing and the contested terrain of
victimhood
Johanna Sumiala and Anu A. Harju
Chapter 17: Seeking Awe, Finding Shock: Terrorism and extremism in visual
journalism
Basma M. Taha and Shahira S. Fahmy
Chapter 18: Beyond the 'iconic' climate visual: investigating absent
representations of climate change
Oliver Blewett, Sylvia Hayes, Ned Westwood, Veronica White, and Saffron
ONeill
Chapter 19: Critical Issues in Visual Solutions Journalism
Jennifer Midberry and Patrick Walters
Section 3: People and Identities
Chapter 20: Beyond the Hegemonic Gaze: Toward an Ethics of Care in
Photojournalism
Tara Pixley
Chapter 21: Rethinking Gender Ideologies through Photojournalism: Life's
"Modern Living" and Editor Maria Sermolino
Dolores Flamiano
Chapter 22: Visual semiotics of press photographs of persons with
disabilities
Pei Soo Ang
Chapter 23: Desiring the Disabled Body: How Disabled Women Are Represented in
Visual Journalism
Joy Jenkins and Ayleen Cabas-Mijares
Chapter 24: The visualization of ordinary people in televised news
Göran Eriksson and Johan Nilsson
Chapter 25: Photojournalism across cultures
Yung Soo Kim
Chapter 26: Visual journalism and the representation of politicians
Umberto Famulari and Lesa Hatley Major
Chapter 27: Just Like Us: Celebrity Journalism and the Promise of Visual
Access
Ryan Linkof
Section 4: Audience interpretation and impact
Chapter 28: Improving Our Conclusions About Visual Media Effects
Renita Coleman
Chapter 29: Effects of visual framing in multimodal news media environments
Stephanie Geise and Yi Xu
Chapter 30: Measuring Attention Patterns: Principles of Eye Tracking as a
Research Methodology
Esther Greussing
Section 5: Technologies, Equipment, and Forms
Chapter 31: The Visual Frontier: The Evolution of TV & Video Journalism
Debora Wenger and Robert Papper
Chapter 32: Visuals and news aggregators: Macro and micro views
Susan Keith
Chapter 33: Immersive Journalism with Augmented and Virtual Reality
Maxwell Foxman
Chapter 34: Data, data visualization, and interactives within news
Paul Bradshaw
Chapter 35: Animation and journalism
Christoph Steger
Chapter 36: Visual journalism on Instagram and TikTok
Jorge Vįzquez-Herrero, Marķa-Cruz Negreira-Rey, and Jonathan Hendrickx
Chapter 37: Social media live streaming (SMLS) in the digital news media: the
case of Twitch
Alexis Apablaza-Campos
Chapter 38: The evolution of global drone journalism
Astrid Gynnild and Turo Uskali
Chapter 39: Unmasking Deception: How Computer Vision Could Empower
Journalists in Unveiling Visual Misinformation
Sang Jung Kim, Yingdan Lu, and Yilang Peng
Section 6: Conclusion
Chapter 40: Possibilities, principles, and provocations for studying visual
journalism into the future
T. J. Thomson and Nicole Dahmen
Index
Nicole Dahmen is Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, USA. She has gained an international reputation for her scholarship, which falls into three key areas, sometimes standing alone but more frequently intersecting: visual journalism, ethics, and contextual reporting.
T.J. Thomson is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at RMIT University, Australia. His research is united by its focus on visual communication. He is the author of To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions, and Identities Behind News Images (2019), winner of the NCAs Diane S. Hope Book of the Year award.
