Introduction : visual political communication / Darren G. Lilleker, Anastasia Veneti, and Daniel Jackson -- I. Theoretical and methodological issues in visual political communication -- The digital transformation of visual politics / Paul Messaris -- The power of visual political communication : pictorial politics through the lens of communication psychology / Darren G. Lilleker -- The interdisciplinary roots and digital branches of visual political communication research / Roman Gerodimos -- Visual methods for political communication research : modes and affordances / Luc Pauwels -- II. The use of visuals in political campaigning -- From analogue to digital negativity : attacks and counter-attacks, satire and absurdism on election posters offline and online / Bengt Johansson and Christina Holtz-Bacha -- Political parties and their pictures : visual communication on Instagram in Swedish and Norwegian election campaigns / Uta Russmann, Jakob Svensson, and Anders Olof Larsson -- Visual political communication in Italian electoral campaigns / Edoardo Novelli -- III. Visual governance -- The visual presidency of Donald Trump's first hundred days : political image making and digital media / Ryan T. Strand and Dan Schill -- Greek political leaders on Instragram : between 'soft' and 'hard' personalisation / Stamatis Poulakidakos and Iliana Giannouli -- The political power of smiling. How politicians' displays of happiness affect viewers' gaze behavior and political judgments / Michael Sülflow and Marcus Maurer -- IV. Citizen-led forms of visual political communication -- #MoreInCommon : collective mourning practices on Twitter and the iconisation of Jo Cox / Katy Parry -- Picturing the political : embodied visuality of protest imagery / Bolette B. Blaagaard -- Connective politics, videos and algorithms : YouTube's mediation of audiovisual political communication / Andrea Medrado, Simone do Vale, and Adilson Cabral.