In today's multimedia environment, visuals are essential and expected parts of storytelling.
However, the visual communication research field is fragmented into several sub-areas …

The coronavirus pandemic has been a battleground for China and the US to score political
points on international media. With outlets from both countries exemplifying distinct media …

Academic literature points to proximity, including geographic, political, economic, and
cultural, as a key news value that influences media attention, sourcing, and visual framing …

This chapter looks at three aspects of China's online public diplomacy towards Africa. First, it
offers a description of its structure and a discussion on how the four major actors involved …

This study is based on a multimodal content analysis of the news coverage of the 2018
Palestinian protests at Gaza's borders with Israel. In particular, two regionally based …

Journalists have faced increasing challenges as the result of police forces in different
regions switching to digital radio communications. Drawing on gatekeeping theory and the …

This study examines the influence of Chinese news content and journalistic performance in
the Zambian media. It does so by measuring the quantity of Chinese news content in …

This paper considers how changes in the keywords used in the headlines and captions
change the implied meaning of political conflict imagery. Drawing on the media and social …

News media play an important role in shaping social reality, and their multimedia narrative
content, in particular, can have widespread repercussions in the public's perception of past …

Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka und Prof. Dr. Olaf Kaltmeier danke ich ganz herzlich für die
langjährige Betreuung des Projekts. Ihre motivierenden Denkanstöße, kritischen Fragen und …