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Umberto Famulari

Instructor

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Franklin Hall Room 060 Friday 9:30-10:45
Email:
ufamular@iu.edu

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Research and Creative Interests

  • Visual Communication
  • race and media
  • Media Images
  • Transnational migration
  • News Media and Politics
  • Political Communication
  • Media Framing

Biography

My research focuses on digital and social media, political and visual communication and online journalism.  Currently my analysis embraces three distinct but complementary paths: I am particularly interested in how media frame immigration and ethnic groups and in the empirical connections between verbal, visual and textual frames. I also study how media affect people’s perception and public opinion in relation to political debates and policies surrounding race and immigration. As a scholar and instructor of visual communication, I pay particular attention on how political institutions and political leaders use visual as a persuasion and propaganda tool.

During my time here at Indiana University I taught courses in introduction to media, design and production and visual communication.

Publications:

Famulari, U. (in press). 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.

Famulari, U.  (2020) Framing the Trump Administration’s “Zero Tolerance” Policy: A Quantitative Content Analysis of News Stories and Visuals in US News Websites, Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2020.1832141

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

Famulari, U. (2016). The Duce on the Screen: The image of Mussolini in the newsreels of the Institute Luce. Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 4(2), 249-265.

 

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