Visual Communication and Culture Images in Action

Visual Communication and Culture: Images in Action uses a unique case-study approach to encourage undergraduate students at the second- and third-year level to critically examine the production and interpretation of images in their personal lives and across a range of disciplines and perspectives. Accompanied by nine student-friendly introductions, the twenty-five articles in this collection assist students in becoming visually literate consumers of images, with an understanding of how culture influences practices of image-making and vice versa.

Jonathan Finn is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and a member of the editorial board of Wilfrid Laurier University Press. He is the author of Capturing the Criminal Image: From Mug Shot to Surveillance Society (Minnesota, 2009), as well as numerous essays on surveillance, visual communication, and visual culture. His primary area of research is the history and theory of photography, with specific interest in institutional uses of the medium. He is currently developing a new research project on visual communication technologies and sport.