[Commlist] New book: Everyday Visual News

New book: Everyday Visual News

This new book, Everyday Visual News: Audience Expectations, Engagements, 
and Meanings, is now out and is available open access.

In it, co-authors T.J. Thomson and Rachael Anderson provide:

1) An international overview of how local visual news is made, sourced, 
edited, and published across geographical areas;
2) Audience-centered insights about local visual news gleaned from 
photo-ranking exercises, digital diary studies, photo voice studies, and 
interviews with journalists and more than 100 community members; and
3) A framework for quality local visual news that responds to what 
audiences implicitly and explicitly say they want.

You can read the book here: 
https://figshare.com/articles/book/Everyday_Visual_News_Audience_Expectations_Engagements_and_Meanings/33264672?file=67587243

Endorsements include:

"This insightful book brings together something genuinely new to the 
field of local media by illuminating how audiences engage with visual 
news in the rhythms of their everyday lives. By focusing on routines, 
expectations and habits – rather than headline events – this is fresh, 
original and profoundly grounded work."

— Professor Kristy Hess, School of Communication and Creative Arts, 
Deakin University Australia

“Contemporary journalism is changing rapidly, but Thomson and Anderson 
have successfully captured the scene in regional Australia with Everyday 
Visual News. This carefully-researched volume provides the scholarly 
version of an extreme close-up, bringing the reader close to the 
journalists who create visual news and – significantly – the people who 
view, appreciate, and rely on it. The book's theoretical argument about 
the way visual news connects members of the audience to place and to 
each other makes it valuable for scholars and practitioners the world over.”

— Professor Mary Angela Bock, School of Journalism and Media at the 
University of Texas at Austin and author of Seeing Justice: Witnessing, 
Crime, and Punishment in Visual Media

The book’s table of contents is as follows:

Preface: shifting sands
Chapter 1: Introduction: “It is very close-knit”
Chapter 2: Global landscape of local visual news
Chapter 3: One-off engagements with news photos
Chapter 4: Wider and more sustained engagements with visual news
Chapter 5: “Through our eyes”

Any questions, please send a note to (t.j.thomson /at/ rmit.edu.au)
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