Katharina Lobinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharina Lobinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharina |
| FAMILY NAME | Lobinger |
| SIGNATURE | LOBINGER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università della Svizzera italiana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1735-9269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From the Internet to the everyday
While extensive research has explored the role of images in war, studies on peace imagery remain limited. This gap is significant given images’ ability to shape public perception, evoke emotions, and convey immediacy, which is often absent in text. Moreover, dominant visual narratives tend to frame peace within a binary war-peace paradigm, at times overlooking the diverse, coexisting forms of peace emphasized in contemporary peace research. This …
“Firsties”—Where It All Began
Photography plays a crucial role in couple relationships, particularly during relationship initiation. This study explores “firsties,” that is, pictures depicting relationship initiation. Based on qualitative interviews and visual elicitation with 21 couples in Switzerland, four image types in the firsties category were identified, “first trips,” “first picture/early pictures of the couple,” “the ‘paparazzi’-picture,” and “the ‘hidden’ couple,” a…
Visual interpersonal communication on social network sites in romantic relationships
Based on a research project examining visual communication in close relationships in Switzerland, this study examines interpersonal communication between romantic partners on social network sites (SNSs). It explores (1) the role of SNSs in couples’ communication repertoires and (2) the social functions accomplished in the exchange of visual elements on SNSs. Sixty-three semi-structured couple and individual in-depth interviews with romantic partn…
Visual-related conflicts in close relationships
This study explores visual-related conflicts, that is, interpersonal conflicts arising from the problematic use of visual communication and visual practices in close relationships. A total of 90 semi-structured pair and individual in-depth interviews with romantic partners and friends were conducted by applying a repertoire-oriented approach. The article explores how the polysemic nature of visuals and different visual practices (e.g. sharing, ar…
Image types revisited. A texto-material approach for creating image types
In visual communication research there are already several methodological approaches for creating image types. These approaches work with creating typologies based on the representational features of visuals / image motifs, reducing the complexity of extensive visual material. However, we argue that in everyday visual communication, the meaning of images depends largely on the practices in which they are embedded and not on the motif. This paper’…
Baked bunnies, couple selfies, and video-call gardening
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has had manifold societal implications. This paper reflects on the role of visual communication for maintaining relationship stability in couple relationships during the first wave of the pandemic, which we understand as a circumstantial turning point. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with couples before, during, and after the first wave of COVID-19 in Switzerland, complemented by creative vis…
What is visual intimacy
Intimacy is a key social goal and the fundamental basis of close social relationships. Current social relationships and the interactions through which they are created and maintained are highly visualised. This visualisation also transforms the way that intimacy is played out. Based on an interdisciplinary literature review, this paper focuses on the concepts of intimacy and visual intimacy, and maps the different roles that visuals can play in i…
Picture-Sorting Techniques
Hybrid repertoires of photo sharing
Photo sharing has become a routine everyday practice and an object of increasing scholarly interest in visual communication research. Previous studies focused on single photo-sharing practices and on how particular photo-sharing services or devices are used. This article, in contrast, highlights the merits of a repertoire-oriented approach to better understand the complexity and entanglement of photo-sharing practices across various channels in d…
Academic traditions in communication
The main conference topic for the ECREA conference in Lugano addressed the many ways in which centers, cores and peripheries, and also mainstreams and alternatives are dealt with in academic media and communication research. The premise of this panel was to apply this general outline of the conference for academic introspection and to recount the many shifting centers and peripheries of communication research over time and discuss the redrawing o…
Handbuch Visuelle Kommunikationsforschung
The Mediatization of the Air
Airspace today is densely penetrated by Wi-Fi networks, GPS services, and broadcasting and mobile phone signals. This process, what we call the mediatization of the air, is not so new, as it began in the first two decades of the 20th century, with the advent of wireless telegraphy. Based on archival research, this paper shows that wireless telegraphy mediatized the air and made it a matter of common interest for formerly-disconnected internationa…
And somehow it ends up on the Internet.” Agency, trust and risks in photo-sharing among friends and romantic partners
Photographic practices and photo-sharing have become pervasive routine communicative acts in everyday life. Photo-sharing can be beneficial for maintaining and strengthening social relationships, but it also requires a careful reflections of trustful disclosure, intimacy, privacy and vulnerability. Several scholars have found that conflicts regarding photo-sharing arise when assumptions regarding the “shareability” of pictures and an “appropriate…
Photographs as things – photographs of things. A texto-material perspective on photo-sharing practices
Recent changes in visual communication refer to photography becoming 'networked' due to the prevalent practice of sharing photographs immediately after capture via instant messaging tools or social media applications. Photo sharing thus represents a pervasive and natural activity in current highly mediatized societies. This paper focuses on communicative practices of photo sharing against the background of practice theory putting particular empha…
Likable, funny or ridiculous? A Q-sort study on audience perceptions of visual portrayals of politicians
Visual elements are central components of current political communication. Visual portrayals, for example, convey cues and attributes that can affect the perceived credibility, truthfulness, and suitability of politicians. The pervasive use of images in politics has made visual political communication an important research area. Yet, analyses in the field predominantly use content analyses to examine the valence of visual portrayals. The present …
Effects of Visual Framing on Emotional Responses and Evaluations of News Stories about the Gaza Conflict 2009
The experiment investigates visual framing effects of news stories on readers'(1) emotional response, (2) evaluation of communicative quality, (3) journalistic credibility and (4) objectivity, and (5) perception of actor representation. Three versions of a news report about the Gaza conflict were used. While the text remained the same, different images were added representing visual human-interest framing, visual political framing, and no visual …
Likable, funny or ridiculous? A Q-sort study on audience perceptions of visual portrayals of politicians
Visual elements are central components of current political communication. Visual portrayals, for example, convey cues and attributes that can affect the perceived credibility, truthfulness, and suitability of politicians. The pervasive use of images in politics has made visual political communication an important research area. Yet, analyses in the field predominantly use content analyses to examine the valence of visual portrayals. The present …
What is visual intimacy
Intimacy is a key social goal and the fundamental basis of close social relationships. Current social relationships and the interactions through which they are created and maintained are highly visualised. This visualisation also transforms the way that intimacy is played out. Based on an interdisciplinary literature review, this paper focuses on the concepts of intimacy and visual intimacy, and maps the different roles that visuals can play in i…
Hybrid repertoires of photo sharing
Photo sharing has become a routine everyday practice and an object of increasing scholarly interest in visual communication research. Previous studies focused on single photo-sharing practices and on how particular photo-sharing services or devices are used. This article, in contrast, highlights the merits of a repertoire-oriented approach to better understand the complexity and entanglement of photo-sharing practices across various channels in d…
Image types revisited. A texto-material approach for creating image types
In visual communication research there are already several methodological approaches for creating image types. These approaches work with creating typologies based on the representational features of visuals / image motifs, reducing the complexity of extensive visual material. However, we argue that in everyday visual communication, the meaning of images depends largely on the practices in which they are embedded and not on the motif. This paper’…
Baked bunnies, couple selfies, and video-call gardening
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has had manifold societal implications. This paper reflects on the role of visual communication for maintaining relationship stability in couple relationships during the first wave of the pandemic, which we understand as a circumstantial turning point. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with couples before, during, and after the first wave of COVID-19 in Switzerland, complemented by creative vis…
Academic traditions in communication
The main conference topic for the ECREA conference in Lugano addressed the many ways in which centers, cores and peripheries, and also mainstreams and alternatives are dealt with in academic media and communication research. The premise of this panel was to apply this general outline of the conference for academic introspection and to recount the many shifting centers and peripheries of communication research over time and discuss the redrawing o…
Effects of Visual Framing on Emotional Responses and Evaluations of News Stories about the Gaza Conflict 2009
The experiment investigates visual framing effects of news stories on readers'(1) emotional response, (2) evaluation of communicative quality, (3) journalistic credibility and (4) objectivity, and (5) perception of actor representation. Three versions of a news report about the Gaza conflict were used. While the text remained the same, different images were added representing visual human-interest framing, visual political framing, and no visual …
Likable, funny or ridiculous? A Q-sort study on audience perceptions of visual portrayals of politicians
Visual elements are central components of current political communication. Visual portrayals, for example, convey cues and attributes that can affect the perceived credibility, truthfulness, and suitability of politicians. The pervasive use of images in politics has made visual political communication an important research area. Yet, analyses in the field predominantly use content analyses to examine the valence of visual portrayals. The present …
Photographs as things – photographs of things. A texto-material perspective on photo-sharing practices
Recent changes in visual communication refer to photography becoming 'networked' due to the prevalent practice of sharing photographs immediately after capture via instant messaging tools or social media applications. Photo sharing thus represents a pervasive and natural activity in current highly mediatized societies. This paper focuses on communicative practices of photo sharing against the background of practice theory putting particular empha…
And somehow it ends up on the Internet.” Agency, trust and risks in photo-sharing among friends and romantic partners
Photographic practices and photo-sharing have become pervasive routine communicative acts in everyday life. Photo-sharing can be beneficial for maintaining and strengthening social relationships, but it also requires a careful reflections of trustful disclosure, intimacy, privacy and vulnerability. Several scholars have found that conflicts regarding photo-sharing arise when assumptions regarding the “shareability” of pictures and an “appropriate…
The Mediatization of the Air
Airspace today is densely penetrated by Wi-Fi networks, GPS services, and broadcasting and mobile phone signals. This process, what we call the mediatization of the air, is not so new, as it began in the first two decades of the 20th century, with the advent of wireless telegraphy. Based on archival research, this paper shows that wireless telegraphy mediatized the air and made it a matter of common interest for formerly-disconnected internationa…
Handbuch Visuelle Kommunikationsforschung
Picture-Sorting Techniques
Hybrid repertoires of photo sharing
Photo sharing has become a routine everyday practice and an object of increasing scholarly interest in visual communication research. Previous studies focused on single photo-sharing practices and on how particular photo-sharing services or devices are used. This article, in contrast, highlights the merits of a repertoire-oriented approach to better understand the complexity and entanglement of photo-sharing practices across various channels in d…
Academic traditions in communication
The main conference topic for the ECREA conference in Lugano addressed the many ways in which centers, cores and peripheries, and also mainstreams and alternatives are dealt with in academic media and communication research. The premise of this panel was to apply this general outline of the conference for academic introspection and to recount the many shifting centers and peripheries of communication research over time and discuss the redrawing o…
What is visual intimacy
Intimacy is a key social goal and the fundamental basis of close social relationships. Current social relationships and the interactions through which they are created and maintained are highly visualised. This visualisation also transforms the way that intimacy is played out. Based on an interdisciplinary literature review, this paper focuses on the concepts of intimacy and visual intimacy, and maps the different roles that visuals can play in i…
Baked bunnies, couple selfies, and video-call gardening
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has had manifold societal implications. This paper reflects on the role of visual communication for maintaining relationship stability in couple relationships during the first wave of the pandemic, which we understand as a circumstantial turning point. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with couples before, during, and after the first wave of COVID-19 in Switzerland, complemented by creative vis…
“Firsties”—Where It All Began
Photography plays a crucial role in couple relationships, particularly during relationship initiation. This study explores “firsties,” that is, pictures depicting relationship initiation. Based on qualitative interviews and visual elicitation with 21 couples in Switzerland, four image types in the firsties category were identified, “first trips,” “first picture/early pictures of the couple,” “the ‘paparazzi’-picture,” and “the ‘hidden’ couple,” a…
Visual interpersonal communication on social network sites in romantic relationships
Based on a research project examining visual communication in close relationships in Switzerland, this study examines interpersonal communication between romantic partners on social network sites (SNSs). It explores (1) the role of SNSs in couples’ communication repertoires and (2) the social functions accomplished in the exchange of visual elements on SNSs. Sixty-three semi-structured couple and individual in-depth interviews with romantic partn…
Visual-related conflicts in close relationships
This study explores visual-related conflicts, that is, interpersonal conflicts arising from the problematic use of visual communication and visual practices in close relationships. A total of 90 semi-structured pair and individual in-depth interviews with romantic partners and friends were conducted by applying a repertoire-oriented approach. The article explores how the polysemic nature of visuals and different visual practices (e.g. sharing, ar…
Image types revisited. A texto-material approach for creating image types
In visual communication research there are already several methodological approaches for creating image types. These approaches work with creating typologies based on the representational features of visuals / image motifs, reducing the complexity of extensive visual material. However, we argue that in everyday visual communication, the meaning of images depends largely on the practices in which they are embedded and not on the motif. This paper’…
From the Internet to the everyday
While extensive research has explored the role of images in war, studies on peace imagery remain limited. This gap is significant given images’ ability to shape public perception, evoke emotions, and convey immediacy, which is often absent in text. Moreover, dominant visual narratives tend to frame peace within a binary war-peace paradigm, at times overlooking the diverse, coexisting forms of peace emphasized in contemporary peace research. This …
Computer Science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (5 works) · Media Influence and Health (4 works) · Multimedia (4 works)