Visual-verbal communication on online newspaper home pages
- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Visual Communication
- Vol. 6 (1), 19-53
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357207071464
Abstract
This article is a study of visual, verbal and visual-verbal communication on the home pages of three English-language online newspapers from different national cultures. Important similarities in the visual-verbal structure of news stories and home pages between the three newspapers are identified. Each newspaper demonstrates a similar tendency towards atomization of news texts with which readers interact over short time scales, and a tendency towards greater consistency in the visual-verbal design of news across longer timescales. A genre-specific visual grammar for online newspaper home pages is emerging in response to the demands of the new medium and historical and social trends in news reporting.Keywords
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