Assistant Professor of Visual Communication

About

  • Role:

    Faculty

  • Position:

    • Assistant Professor of Visual Communication

  • Department:

    • Journalism & Media Communication

  • Education:

    • PhD Indiana University

Biography

Born and raised near Milan, Italy, I moved to the US to earn a PhD in Media and Communication at The Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington (2022)

Education: Ph.D., Media and Communication, Indiana University Bloomington; M.A., Royal Holloway University, London; B.A., University of Milan (Italy)

Research interests:

My research interest primarily examines the interaction among multimedia storytelling, digital media, visual and political communication. A first stream of my scholarship focuses on multimodal mediated representation, the consequent impact on the audience and the support for public policies.

A second line of my research looks specifically at multi-platform storytelling, visual communication, social media and politics. I am particularly interested in understanding how the interplay of visuals and text in media affects people’s attitudes, political support and online engagement.

My scholarship  examines  visual and verbal modes of representation on digital media and their effects, and the intersections that link digital and social media, multimedia communication, underrepresented communities and public policies

Publications

Selected Publications:

Famulari, U., Hatley Major, L. (in press). Visualizing election campaigns: How online news in Germany, Poland and the United States use camera techniques to portray politicians running for office. Visual Communication Quarterly

Famulari, U., Hatley Major, L. (in press). Visual journalism and the representation of politicians, in T.J. Thomson and N. Dahmen (eds), The Routledge companion to Visual Journalism, Routledge.

Steffan, D., Grabe, M. E., & Famulari, U. (2024). Multinational and Multimodal Character Framing of Political Candidates in Online News: Do Political and Media System Classifications Matter?. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 19401612241285665.

Famulari, U., & Hatley Major, L. (2024). The influence of visual and textual frames on people’s perception of migrants. Communication and the Public, 20570473241249769.

Famulari, U., & Hatley Major, L. (2023). Photojournalists’ visual framing of criminal jury trials in national US digital news. Newspaper Research Journal, 44(2), 206-222.

Famulari, U., & Major, L. H. (2023). News stories and images of immigration online: A quantitative analysis of digital-native and traditional news websites of different political orientations and social media engagement. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 1-20.

Famulari, U. (2021). The strategic use of visuals on Facebook: A multimodal analysis of images and audience reactions during the campaign for the 2019 UK general elections. Visual Communication Quarterly, 28 (4), 199-211.

Famulari, U. (2020). Framing the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy: A quantitative content analysis of visuals and stories in U.S. cable news and newspaper websites. Journalism Studies, 21 (16), 2267-2284.

Famulari, U. (2020). Defining problems and struggling to find solutions: Framing Roma people in Italian news websites. Journal of Italian Media & Cinema Studies, 3(2), 375-397.