The 2016 presidential primary candidates expanded their social media marketing
campaigns to include the image-and video-centered social network platform Instagram. To …

The visual components of political communication are closely related to the ongoing
personalization of politics. Not only do the media focus their stories on candidates and …

This study investigates the visual self-presentation of political candidates on different social
media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) in seven Western democracies (Austria …

An evolving body of research generally referred to as visual politics has brought the heavy
research focus on linguistic modalities of political communication closer to parity with visual …

Social media have reinvigorated the shift of focus from a party-centered politics to a
personality-based one. This has made how politicians personalize on social media …

Visuals play a pivotal role in politics (Bleiker, 2018; Veneti et al., 2019). In contemporary
hybrid media systems, visual representations of politicians are ubiquitous. Voters are …

Though it is crucial to the recognition of asylum seekers as refugees, the discussion about
their mediated visual representations within host countries' media is marginalized in …

Based on Goffman's theories of self-presentation and framing, this exploratory investigation
adapted Videostyle and Webstyle protocols to analyse the 2016 US presidential primary …

Campaign advertisements can greatly influence voters; however, the effects of subtle
variations in advertising content have rarely been investigated. This study was conducted to …

Drawing on the theoretical framework of Grabe and Bucy (2009), this chapter presents the
findings of an exploratory study concerning the visual self-presentation strategies that the …