Interpreting Visual Images : A Socio-Semiotic Approach to Facebook Images

Visual Semiotics: How Still Images Mean? Interpreting Still Images by Using Semiotic Approaches

Today people live in a visually intensive society and a world of spectacular and exciting images. They are bombarded with an orderly and continuously stream of visual stimulation from all manner of media every day. They see mediated images more often than they read words. Images sell everything. This paper offers an analytical framework for understanding how still images become meaningful in ma...

A Unified Approach to Coding and Interpreting Face Images

The Rhetorical - Aesthetic Approach to Constructing the Relation between Images and Visual Inventions with Global Politics

Images and photos play an important role in our understanding of domestic and international events. Today we are living in the age of the visualization of politics. The images are vague, rhetorical, and aesthetic components of political and social phenomena and can give them a beautiful or detestable structure. In the digital age, images in and of themselves can define our structure and vision ...

Autobiographical Brand Images Give a Higher Chance to False Memory as Compared to Neutral Images

Consumers’ prior experiences shape an episodic memory which largely influences their decision-making process. This episodic memory is mainly linked to cognitive and emotional perception and we know that a brand image influences our cognitive and emotional perception. Nevertheless, it has not been well described how autobiographical memories of brand images differ from those of other types of im...

Interpreting Images with Geodma

Object oriented analysis offers effective tools to represent the knowledge in a scene. Knowledge-based interpretation arises as an effective way to interpret remote sensing imagery. In this approach, human’s expertise is organized in a knowledge base to be used as input of automated interpretation processes, thus enhancing performance and accuracy, and reducing at the same time the subjectivity...