Visual Discourse Analysis

2013 ◽  
pp. 101-114
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Visual Discourse

Transcending gender dichotomy through art teacher education in Zimbabwe

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dairai Darlington Dziwa ◽  
Louise Postma ◽  
Louisemarié Combrink
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Art Teacher ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
Art Teacher Education ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Teacher Education Students

Zimbabwe is a patriarchal society characterized by gender dichotomy and male domination that permeates through social, educational and domestic spheres resulting in numerous challenges for art teacher education students. Expanding critical consciousness within art teacher education programmes is an imperative step towards developing art teachers who are self-aware and reflexive concerning the intersections of gender, art and education. This study investigated how engagement with visual art can provoke a heightened critical awareness about gender bias, stereotyping and equity among Zimbabwean art teacher education students. Sixteen selected art teacher education students (eight males and females) at the Great Zimbabwe University participated in the study. Participants were guided by researcher-constructed prompts for purposes of image making, interpretation and dialogue. Visual discourse analysis of the students’ visual narratives and discourse analysis of focus group transcriptions revealed several themes as well as evidence of critical reflection and expanded critical awareness related to gender issues. Visual and dialogic methods offer promise for critical engagement and reconciliation of tensions surrounding issues of gender amongst art teacher education candidates.

scholarly journals Encouraging Activism Through Art: Preservice Teachers Challenge Censorship

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-182
Author(s):  
Christine H. Leland ◽  
Sara E. Bangert
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Culture Jamming ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
The Arts

According to the American Library Association, book censorship is on the rise. While many censored books are adolescent novels, some titles for younger children are challenged as well. Books dealing with difficult social issues have been targets for censors historically, but recent attacks have focused on books portraying members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other sexual identities (LGBTQ+) community. The goal of this qualitative study was to build prospective teachers’ (PTs’) knowledge of censorship while also providing an opportunity for them to take a sociopolitical stance. Students in a children’s literature course read source materials and reacted by creating a transmediation that used some form of art. Lenses for data analysis included qualitative research, critical discourse analysis, and visual discourse analysis. The first major theme focused on freedom and democracy and the threat censorship poses. Within this category, two subthemes were identified: (1) children having freedom to learn about real-world issues and (2) children having freedom to read books that meet their personal needs. A second major theme focused on how PTs thought people should respond to censorship. Responses expressing fear and/or confusion about censorship were coded as demonstrating a teacher dilemma, while examples showing a challenge to censorship were coded as demonstrating resistance. Findings indicate that PTs were shocked by what they learned about censorship, and many of them engaged in culture jamming, which involves using the arts to challenge oppressive systems. Many used art to critique censorship and advocate for children’s rights. This study challenges the common cultural assumption that teaching is an apolitical or neutral activity.

Why do soldiers swap illicit pictures? How a visual discourse analysis illuminates military band of brother culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-357
Author(s):  
Megan MacKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Military Culture ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Military Band ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Photographic Evidence ◽  
Military Service Members

Military service members have been taking and circulating illicit images for decades, and soldier-produced illicit images are a regular and coherent category of international images. Focusing on two case studies – Abu Ghraib images and images of hazing – the argument put forward in this article is that soldier-generated illicit images are not simply photographic evidence, or accidental by-products, of exceptional military activities; rather, these images – and the practices associated with these images – are central to, and reinforce aspects of, military band of brother culture. Soldier-produced illicit images establish a visual vernacular that normalizes particular practices within military communities. Moreover, the practices of producing, circulating and consuming these images convey explicit messages to service members about acceptable behaviour and norms around loyalty and secrecy. A method of visual discourse analysis is developed and employed to examine the acts captured in soldier-generated illicit images as well as the practices linked to the production, circulation and consumption of images. Building on existing work on military culture and images and international relations, this article makes a unique contribution by systematically analysing soldier-produced illicit images in order to gain insights about internal military culture and group dynamics.

Visibilities and the Analysis of Interdiscourse: The Case of Digital Health Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Urban
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
Visual Discourse

This contribution examines the study of interdiscourses in visual discourse analysis. An expanded theory of interdiscursivity considers the integration, plausibility, and popularization of meanings, offering a perspective on ways of legitimating interventions and instructions or guidelines for action. Based on the reconstruction of meaning assignments, the expanded interdiscourse theory presented here opens up the possibility of tracing how power is exercised through the occupation of particular discourse positions, whether these are of a linguistic or of a pictorial/visual nature. With reference to poststructuralist theories, assignments of meaning are seen as inherently temporary and unstable. Whatever social reality is, it remains at least partially ambiguous and is determined anew in conflicts or tensions surrounding hegemonic negotiations. Visual discourse analysis thus focuses on the precarious nature of hegemony-building processes. How such adjustments of meaning through visualizations can be investigated within the framework of interdiscursive analysis is discussed using the example of the digitalization of body data via wearables.

scholarly journals WHAT DO YOU WEIGH? POPULAR FEMINISM AND BODY POSITIVITY AS MEDIATED DISEMBODIMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Taylor ◽  
Colten Meisner
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Cultural Frameworks ◽  
External Relationships ◽  
Popular Feminism

This study analyzes the Instagram page, @i_weigh, and its relation to body positivity discourses. Drawing on a visual discourse analysis of 300 Instagram posts from the @i_weigh account, this study suggests that body positivity movements may be increasingly disembodied in a self-representational era hallmarked by popular feminism. On 16 March 2018, actress and activist Jameela Jamil posted a photo to Instagram, obscuring her body with textual identifiers like “great friends” and “I laugh every day.” This post marked the launch of the Instagram account @i_weigh. This page, founded and maintained by Jamil, posts submissions from Instagram users answering the call to “weigh” themselves beyond the corporeal. This movement, now millions in reach, signals a departure from the conventions of body positivity. Rather than discovering empowerment through the body, @i_weigh encourages its participants to publicly privilege external relationships, social identities, and economic opportunities in an effort to look past the body. @i_weigh discursively constructs a mediated disembodiment, characterized by its liminal visual representation and categorization of the self through narratives of resilience and strength, claiming marginalized identities, and extra-self connection. The interaction of liminality and mediated disembodiment is reflective of self-representation in an age of popular feminism, placing the responsibility back on women for their own empowerment and production of selfhood while ignoring the socio-cultural frameworks that create a need for empowerment in the first place.

Constructing online tourist destination images: a visual discourse analysis of the official Beijing Tourism website

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-448
Author(s):  
Wenjin Qi ◽  
Nadezda Sorokina
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Destination Image ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
The Right ◽  
Tourism Websites

Abstract Having the right image as a tourist destination brings immense benefits for a city’s international recognition in an increasingly competitive tourist industry. Official tourism websites as effective platforms to project a destination image online are able to provide substantial information about the tourist destination and attract a wider potential for inbound tourists from a global market. However, a lack of sufficient research has been noted regarding the integration of tourism studies and the study of website discourse, particularly visual discourse. This study, drawing on the theory of metafunctions in semiotics, conducts a visual discourse analysis by examining the three metafunctional meanings of visual images extracted from the official Beijing Tourism website. The results of both quantitative and qualitative analyses showed that the investigated website constructs an online city destination image through a multiplicity of tourist resources. The study concludes by outlining the practical benefits for tourism website designers and implications for future research.

Critical visual discourse analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 377-392
Author(s):  
Peggy Albers ◽  
Vivian Maria Vasquez ◽  
Jerome C. Harste
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Visual Discourse
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