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Building: Business School, Floor: 2nd Floor, Room: Room 2.08
Monday 15:00 - 16:30 BST (15/06/2026)
This panel examines how visual politics shapes democratic competition and can reinforces or disrupt gendered stereotypes. The papers examine how visual cues about candidate - such as femininity, attractiveness, or leader visibility - influence perceptions of competence, as well as broader campaign dynamics and electoral outcomes. The panel advances debates on representation, by asking who is seen in party-controlled imagery and how voters respond to visual characteristics. As well as survey-experiments of voter evaluations, several contributions employ advanced computational methods on large-scale social media data, exploring how changing platform environments condition visibility and how researchers can study candidate communication online.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Not in the Picture: Visual Descriptive Representation and Gender Gaps in Parties’ Visual Communication | View Paper Details |
| Attractive Candidates Win Elections Partially Through Increased Political Donations | View Paper Details |
| Campaigning through the lens of Google: A large-scale algorithm audit of Google searches in the run-up to the Swiss Federal Elections 2023 | View Paper Details |
| "Yes, it's a woman. So what?" - Femininity in women politicians' self-presentation | View Paper Details |
| Gender and Depictions of Party Leaders in European Union Member States on Instagram: A Picture of Bias? | View Paper Details |