Visual minimalism in hard news: Thumbnail faces on the smh online home page

Social Semiotics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-189

  Knox, John S ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

News discourse; Newsbites; Online newspapers; Photographs; Systemic functional semiotics; Thumbnails

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950765687     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330902816194     Document Type: Article

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