Multiliteracies: How readers interpret political cartoons

Visual Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-205

  El Refaie, Elisabeth ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audience research; New literacies; Newspapers; Political cartoons; Visual literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449124940     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: 17413214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357209102113     Document Type: Article

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