Visual Political Communication

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).