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Exploring the contemporary Moon Under Water through illustration: nostalgia and the power of the image 通过插图探索当代水下月亮:怀旧和图像的力量

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-27 DOI: 10.1177/14703572221101130

Stephanie Black

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Book review: Empirical Multimodality Research: Methods, Evaluations, Implications 书评:《实证多模态研究:方法、评价、启示》

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI: 10.1177/14703572221099606

Alex Christiansen

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引用次数: 5

From researchers to academic entrepreneurs: a diachronic analysis of the visual representation of academics in university annual reports 从研究人员到学术企业家:大学年报中学者形象的历时性分析

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI: 10.1177/14703572221102180

Yi Deng, D. Feng

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引用次数: 1

Book review: Beyond the Visual: An Introduction to Researching Multimodal Phenomena 书评:超越视觉:多模态现象研究导论

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-09 DOI: 10.1177/14703572221102531

Charles Forceville

引用次数: 6

Understanding emotional responses to visual aesthetic artefacts: the SECMEA mechanisms 理解对视觉美学人工制品的情绪反应:SECMEA机制

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-09 DOI: 10.1177/14703572221090536

C. van der Lee, Renske van Enschot

引用次数: 0

Book review: Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime, and Punishment in Visual Media 书评:《看到正义:视觉媒体中的目击、犯罪和惩罚》

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2022-06-08 DOI: 10.1177/14703572221099611

Courtney D Tabor

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Drone views: a multimodal ethnographic perspective 无人机视角:多模式人种学视角

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-16 DOI: 10.1177/14703572211065093

Elisa Serafinelli, Lauren Alex O’Hangan

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引用次数: 5

Book review: Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century 书评:《动画的真相:21世纪的纪录片和视觉文化》

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-12 DOI: 10.1177/14703572221094042

Georgia Aitaki

引用次数: 0

The rhythms of cancer survivorship 癌症生存的节奏

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2022-05-10 DOI: 10.1177/14703572221078040

Stefanie Plage

引用次数: 2

The mediatic dimension of images: visual semiotics faced with Gerhard Richter’s artwork 图像的中介维度:格哈德·里希特艺术作品的视觉符号学

IF 1.5 2区文学

Visual Communication Pub Date : 2022-04-21 DOI: 10.1177/14703572221080529

Enzo D’armenio

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