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[Commlist] New Book: The Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism

Tue Sep 02 15:43:38 GMT 2025




/The Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism/ is now available to purchase and we hope might be of use to you, your colleagues, or students.

It includes 41 chapters over 524 pages and is richly accompanied by all types of visuals from photographs and screenshots to AI-generated images and data visualisations.

It features chapters from 61 contributors from both industry and academia living in six continents.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Visual-Journalism/Dahmen-Thomsom/p/book/9781032489032?srsltid=AfmBOoo7m95iK1LtFw9RyRkBVHoK7Buad4DG6NgvYseuiYmIiUYPXE7V

The table of contents is as follows:

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

1 From then to now: a history of visual news (Keith Greenwood)
2 The photojournalistic paradox: trust in visual journalism (Asko Lehmuskallio and Paula Haara)
3 Iconic images: Production, performance, power (Marco Solaroli)
4 Visual news values (Helen Caple)
5 Visual news editing and crisis coverage (Maria Nilsson)
6 The importance of understanding audience behavior, editorial values, and business acumen in digital news design (Al Lucca) 7 Mobile storytelling and design: how to plan, design, and optimize for digital platforms (Mario R. García) 8 Generic visuals in the news (Giorgia Aiello, Helen Kennedy, and C.W. Anderson)
9 Embodied gatekeeping within visual news (Kyser Lough)
10 Terror/izing images: citizens’ visual reportage (Stuart Allan)

SECTION 2 Theory, concepts, and values

11 Theorizing the visual: key debates, controversies, and questions for visual journalism (Ilija Tomanić Trivundža) 12 Seeing news: AI and human-centered media literacies (Paul Mihailidis and Jamie Cohen)
13 The process of visual ethics (Don Heider)
14 Evolving technologies and practices of witnessing global wars and conflicts (Sandra Ristovska and Anat Leshnick) 15 User-generated video and news: evidence, storytelling, and ethics (Mary Angela Bock) 16 Visual journalism, witnessing, and the contested terrain of victimhood (Johanna Sumiala and Anu A. Harju) 17 Seeking awe, finding shock: terrorism and extremism in visual journalism (Basma M. Taha and Shahira S. Fahmy) 18 Beyond the "iconic" climate visual: investigating absent representations of climate change (Oliver Blewett, Sylvia Hayes, Ned Westwood, Veronica White, and Saffron O’Neill) 19 Critical issues in visual solutions journalism (Jennifer Midberry and Patrick Walters)

SECTION 3 People and identities

20 Beyond the hegemonic gaze: toward an ethics of care in photojournalism (Tara Pixley) 21 Rethinking gender ideologies through photojournalism: Life’s "modern living" and editor Maria Sermolino (Dolores Flamiano) 22 Visual semiotics of press photographs of persons with disabilities (Pei Soo Ang) 23 Desiring the disabled body: how disabled women are represented in visual journalism (Joy Jenkins and Ayleen Cabas-Mijares) 24 The visualization of ordinary people in televised news (Göran Eriksson and Johan Nilsson)
25 Photojournalism across cultures (Yung Soo Kim)
26 Visual journalism and the representation of politicians (Umberto Famulari and Lesa Hatley Major) 27 Just like us: celebrity journalism and the promise of visual access (Ryan Linkof)

SECTION 4 Audience interpretation and impact

28 Improving our conclusions about visual media effects (Renita Coleman)
29 Effects of visual framing in multimodal news media environments (Stephanie Geise and Yi Xu) 30 Measuring attention patterns: principles of eye-tracking as a research methodology (Esther Greussing)

SECTION 5 Technologies, equipment, and forms

31 The visual frontier: the evolution of TV and video journalism (Debora Wenger and Robert Papper)
32 Visuals and news aggregators: macro and micro views (Susan Keith)
33 Immersive journalism with augmented and virtual reality (Maxwell Foxman)
34 Data, data visualization, and interactives within news (Paul Bradshaw)
35 Animation and journalism (Christoph Steger)
36 Visual journalism on Instagram and TikTok (Jorge Vázquez-Herrero, María-Cruz Negreira-Rey, and Jonathan Hendrickx) 37 Social media live streaming (SMLS) in the digital news media: the case of Twitch (Alexis Apablaza-Campos)
38 The evolution of global drone journalism (Astrid Gynnild and Turo Uskali)
39 Unmasking deception: how computer vision could empower journalists in unveiling visual misinformation (Sang Jung Kim, Yingdan Lu, and Yilang Peng)

SECTION 6 Conclusion

40 Possibilities, principles, and provocations for studying visual journalism into the future (T.J. Thomson and Nicole Dahmen)

Any questions? Please reach out to (t.j.thomson /at/ rmit.edu.au).


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