News coverage of EU negotiations, children's war memories or TV series glamourising political processes - images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as -images in use-, this volume considers the agencies behind visual communication and its impact on society.
Images in Use engages critically with traditional approaches to visual analysis, offers suggestions for alternative, socially situated analyses of images and demonstrates the explanatory force of thinking through...