Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture

About Giorgia AielloKaty Parry

Giorgia Aiello is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on the politics and potentials of visual multimodal and material communication. Giorgia is interested in how aesthetics shape and are shaped by political economic and cultural agendas. Her work aims to uncover how identities are formed how both difference and diversity are negotiated and how inequalities are maintained or overcome through media and communication. She is a co-editor of Communicating the City: Meanings Practices and Interactions (Peter Lang 2017) and the author of many journal articles book chapters and short publications about branding photography data visualization political imagery and cities. Katy Parry is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. Her work focuses on visual politics and activism images of war and representations of contemporary soldiering. She is a co-author of Political Culture and Media Genre: Beyond the News (Palgrave Macmillan 2012) with Kay Richardson and John Corner and a co-editor of Can the Media Serve Democracy? Essays in Honour of Jay G. Blumler (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) with Stephen Coleman and Giles Moss. Her current research interests include the visual expressions of political solidarity shared in response to the murder of Jo Cox MP during the Brexit referendum campaign and the representational politics of the war veteran in contemporary media.