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).