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Everyday Visual News: Audience Expectations, Engagements, and Meanings book cover

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Everyday Visual News Audience Expectations, Engagements, and Meanings

By T.J. Thomsom, Rachael Anderson Copyright 2027
140 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

With an international overview of how local visual news is made, sourced, edited, and published across geographical areas, this book explores how audiences respond to the visual news that is locally available. In order to listen to audiences, the book uses a rich mix of methods including photo-ranking exercises, digital diary studies, photo voice studies, and interviews with journalists and... Read more

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Preface

 

Chapter 1: Introduction: “It is very close-knit”

Chapter 2: Global landscape of local visual news

Chapter 3: One-off engagements with news photos

Chapter 4: Wider and more sustained engagements with visual news

Chapter 5: “Through our eyes”

 

Index

 


 

Biography

T. J. Thomson is an Associate Professor of Visual Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Visual Journalism (2025).

Dr Rachael Anderson is a researcher in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She holds a PhD from Monash University in Journalism and Media Studies. Her research interests include visual journalism, news coverage of terrorism, and how cultural belonging and otherness are mediated through news discourse.

"This insightful book brings together something genuinely new to the field of local media by illuminating how audiences engage with visual news in the rhythms of their everyday lives. By focusing on routines, expectations and habits – rather than headline events – this is fresh, original and profoundly grounded work."

— Professor Kristy Hess, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University Australia

“Contemporary journalism is changing rapidly, but Thomson and Anderson have successfully captured the scene in regional Australia with Everyday Visual News. This carefully-researched volume provides the scholarly version of an extreme close-up, bringing the reader close to the journalists who create visual news and — significantly — the people who view, appreciate, and rely on it. The book's theoretical argument about the way visual news connects members of the audience to place and to each other makes it valuable for scholars and practitioners the world over.”

— Mary Angela Bock, Professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime, and Punishment in Visual Media

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