Karin Kukkonen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Karin Kukkonen is involved.

Title

Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication

Edited by Matteo Stocchetti and Karin Kukkonen

News coverage of EU negotiations, children’s war memories or TV series glamourising political processes – images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as “images in use”, this volume considers… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 44] 2011. vi, 298 pp.

Articles

Kukkonen, Karin and Ylva Østby 2022 Readers during the Covid-19 pandemic: Reading choices, habits and emotional experiences Scientific Study of Literature 12:1/2, pp. 83–102 | Article

This study investigates reading literature during the Covid-19 pandemic in Norway. In three surveys conducted across 2020 (combined N = 489), readers were asked about their reading habits, motivations for reading and emotional states after reading. Our results showed that Norwegian readers read… read more

Kukkonen, Karin 2011 Chapter 3. The map, the mirror and the simulacrum: Visual communication and the question of power Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication, Stocchetti, Matteo and Karin Kukkonen (eds.), pp. 55–67 | Article

This article identifies the three metaphors of mirror, map and simulacrum as central for the political discourse in visual communication: Images designated as mirrors, such as documentaries, convince because they seem to reflect reality. Images designated as maps, such as advertisements, convince… read more

Stocchetti, Matteo and Karin Kukkonen 2011 Introduction Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication, Stocchetti, Matteo and Karin Kukkonen (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Article