{"title":"Socio-psychological Recovery in Post-nuclear Fukushima, Japan: Affective Reactions to Media Portrayal in Photographs","authors":"Allison Kwesell, C. LeNoble","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2021.1907191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2021.1907191","url":null,"abstract":"After the 2011 Great East Japan disaster, residents of Fukushima were inundated with media photographs that painted a dire picture. As emotionally triggering photographs have been established as a potential barrier to recovery from trauma, there is a need to better understand their impact on the socio-psychological recovery of disaster survivors. Drawing from media system dependency theory and cognitive neuroscience, the affective circumplex model and an adaptive photo-elicitation interview technique offer unique understandings of affective responses to photographs. Results indicate that although impactful media photographs can act as recurring stimuli to the experienced disaster, over time they can also interrupt negative thought processes and encourage post-traumatic growth.","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"30 1","pages":"71 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73012194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual Culture, 3rd ed., by Richard Howells and Joaquim Negreiros","authors":"Bob Britten","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2021.1911276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2021.1911276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":"135 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87787752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mired in Shadows: The U.S. Army’s Campaign to Encourage Mental Health Treatment","authors":"T. Randall","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2021.1907189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2021.1907189","url":null,"abstract":"The United States Armed Forces have been in continuous conflicts since September 11, 2001. For the veterans returning from combat deployments, the human costs have been immense and long lasting. Each of the military departments has developed media campaigns to encourage mental health treatment. This essay introduces the rhetorical issues associated with mental disability as part of the broader genre of disability rhetorics. It then examines the media developed by the U.S. Army in its campaign to encourage mental health treatment by employing the schema of analysis developed by Sonja Foss and situating it within the works on visual rhetoric by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Kimberly Emmons, and Riki Thompson. The article next contextualizes the images used by the Army into the cultural environment faced by soldiers. Finally, it concludes that far from encouraging all soldiers to seek mental health treatment, the Army’s media campaign is stigmatizing the majority of those it seeks to assist.","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"21 1","pages":"112 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82128941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Video Convergence: Factors Affecting Photojournalists’ Satisfaction and Adoption","authors":"Christopher T. Assaf","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2021.1907188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2021.1907188","url":null,"abstract":"A survey of visual journalists (N = 132) shooting online video finds that factors affecting photojournalists’ satisfaction and perceptions of quality are related to training and experience. As still and video convergence continues, overall, more than half of visual journalists surveyed are satisfied shooting online video. Survey respondents with more video training had higher satisfaction recording video and perceptions of quality in their shooting. However, less than half of respondents had combined still photography and video shooting on assignment some or all of the time—showing a low rate of video technology adoption and combination with the still photography skill set. Of that, a majority showed dissatisfaction with shooting both stills and video. Findings are discussed in regard to diffusion of innovations theory.","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"8 1","pages":"99 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90146825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interwoven: A Resting Place for Collective Grief","authors":"Ross Taylor","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2020.1862666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2020.1862666","url":null,"abstract":"Ellie Douglass pushes Moonbeam Marie Gardebring in her wheelchair outside of the Arbor Institute in Boulder, Colorado, on Saturday, September 5, 2020. The casket they hand wove is to the left. Moon...","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":"58 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81012660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Life Cycle of Smartphone Images from Camera Rolls to Social Media Platforms","authors":"T. Thomson","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2020.1862663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2020.1862663","url":null,"abstract":"Recent critiques contend that “Far too much current writing on photography—even in pieces about social media and photography—fixate on professional photographers,” so this piece seeks to buck that trend by focusing on ordinary smartphone owners and how they use their mobile devices to capture or create, stylize, and represent their worlds. More specifically, this study examines the “life cycle” of images from capture or creation on the device to potential editing and sharing on social media. It does so through a multimethod, qualitative approach that blends an examination of the users’ camera rolls and images they post to social media platforms with in-depth interviews to contexualize and explain their practices. The results indicate that the ordinary individuals in this sample created vastly more images than they shared and that they used their mobile devices chiefly to preserve memories, document new or unusual experiences, preserve inspiration, provide accountability or evidence, and to create visual media as a stand-in for verbal communication. Of the images they did share, ones with common reference points were most likely to be distributed, followed by ones showing new, rare or unusual experiences, ones that were unified or consistent with other images previously posted, and images that flattered the uploader.","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"28 1","pages":"19 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91102554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Night and Day: A Visual Diptych of Hate and Horror in Charlottesville","authors":"Susan Keith, Leslie-Jean Thornton","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2020.1862664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2020.1862664","url":null,"abstract":"This article critically analyzes a pair of photographs from the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017: Samuel Corum’s nighttime image of torch-bearing protesters on the University of Virginia campus and Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning daytime image of counterprotesters falling through the air as James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into them, killing Heather Heyer. Using a close reading of the images as texts—considering their production, contrasts, and resonances—we argue that the photographs form a temporal, technical, and theoretical diptych of anger, hate, fear, confusion, and sorrow.","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"131 1","pages":"45 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90476051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bathtub Madonnas as Media in an Italian American Neighborhood in Transition: Migration, Gentrification, and Meaningful Properties","authors":"Regina M. Marchi","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2020.1862665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2020.1862665","url":null,"abstract":"Based on historical research, visual analysis, photographic documentation, and 31 interviews, this article examines Madonna yard shrines constructed by Italian Americans in the 20th century as vernacular media and considers their role in knowledge production, identity representation, and the transmission of history. It discusses the historic meanings and contexts of these shrines, including their emergence during a time of anti-Italian bigotry, while examining their evolving significance within the changing cultural and socioeconomic contexts of globalization. While previous research on religious yard statuary has analyzed them as expressions of faith and cultural identity within homogeneous communities, this article explores their meanings in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing due to new migration, gentrification, and transformations in the urban real estate market.","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"265 1","pages":"3 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76311126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Death, Grief, and New Beginnings","authors":"Lawrence J. Mullen","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2021.1873047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2021.1873047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"2014 1","pages":"2 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73295480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To See and Be Seen: The Environment, Interactions and Identities Behind News Images","authors":"E. Palmer","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2021.1873049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2021.1873049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":"67 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88596286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}