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Verbal and visual rhetoric in a media world Ghent University
Playing with oppositions: Verbal and visual antithesis in the media KU Leuven
The inventive possibilities generated by the figures in general and the figure antithesis in particular are explored by Jeanne Fahnestock in the field of science. The only structure that has received much attention is metaphor, she claims, but far less work has been done on the conceptual and inventive power of other figures of speech, like antithesis, gradatio, incrementum, antimetabole, ploche, and polyptoton. Nothing prevents us from ...
Sexual reputation, intersectional intimacies and visual social media : exploring young people's mores on 'good' versus 'bad' online sexual reputations Ghent University
In deeply digitalised societies, ‘sexual reputations’ are seen to be most ‘threatened’. Digital technologies such as smartphone cameras and social media platforms can capture and distribute moments that damage people’s sexual reputations and statuses. In this chapter, we explore how young people’s mediated sexual intimacies are increasingly visible, mainly because of the emergence of popular visual social media (e.g., Instagram and Snapchat). ...
Visual Media and Political Communication: Reporting about Suffering in Kinshasa KU Leuven
Many sub-Saharan African societies have undergone significant political shifts in the last two decades. Changes in political representation and leadership have induced new forms of political mediation and communication. This article probes into one of the most visible transformations in Kinshasa's political society: TV news reports about urban misery, often resulting from a malfunctioning state, are produced in which Kinshasa's inhabitants ...
Exploring the Boundaries Between Visual Anthroplogy and Visual Communication Design Research Hasselt University
Researchers and/or designers in visual anthropology and visual communication share the visual aspect or visual study as a common interest. However, their views are different. Visual anthropologists consider the social impact and/or meaning of the visual communication within a culture. They are also interested in ways to present anthropological data by means of visual techniques. Visual communication design researchers create visual ...
Visual citizenship : communicating political opinions and emotions on social media Ghent University
This book explores visual political engagement online – how citizens participate in the dynamism of life in society by expressing their opinions and emotions on various issues of democratic life in image-based social media posts, independently of collective actions. Looking beyond large digital social movements to focus on the everyday, the book provides a well-documented and comprehensive framework of key notions, concrete methods and examples ...
Verbal and visual rhetoric in a media world KU Leuven
Since Aristotle, the study of rhetoric has focused on the persuasive aspect of discourse in the political, forensic and ceremonial domains. Rhetoric deals with doxa, the shared opinions and reasons people consider plausible and acceptable in a specific situation, in the realm of appearance, ambiguity, change and opinion. More than a set of devices, rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. The ...
Less ado, more done: Verbal and visual antithesis in the media KU Leuven
The inventive, argumentative and stylistic possibilities generated by figures in general and the figure antithesis in particular are explored by Jeanne Fahnestock in the field of science. These ideas on the possibilities of antithesis are developed in the analysis of some cases of this figure in the media. This paper explores how antithesis can consist of textual and visual elements, and how various sorts and degrees of opposition are ...