A Communications Perspective on the Use of Visualisations in a Dutch Court for Minor Felonies

Images such as photographs, drawings, animations and videos are everywhere in modern society and are playing an ever-increasing role in court. This general shift from written and spoken language to ‘visual language’ in society has been of interest to language and communication researchers for years....

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Autores principales:	Lisanne van Weelden, Tessa van Charldorp
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Utrecht University School of Law 2019
Materias:	communication law visualisations images persuasion court Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence K1-7720
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/cea38a8cc99948038d00bcb9a6da48a8
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cea38a8cc99948038d00bcb9a6da48a82021-11-08T08:17:04ZA Communications Perspective on the Use of Visualisations in a Dutch Court for Minor Felonies1871-515X10.18352/ulr.497https://doaj.org/article/cea38a8cc99948038d00bcb9a6da48a82019-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.utrechtlawreview.org/articles/497https://doaj.org/toc/1871-515XImages such as photographs, drawings, animations and videos are everywhere in modern society and are playing an ever-increasing role in court. This general shift from written and spoken language to ‘visual language’ in society has been of interest to language and communication researchers for years. Within the domain of law, however, a lot of the language and communication literature is traditionally focused on written and spoken language. In the first part of this paper we provide a theoretical background in which we discuss how people understand images, what visual literacy means, how images can have persuasive power and can influence people in terms of their emotions, attitudes and decision-making and we talk about how this can play a role in court. Furthermore, we illustrate some gaps in the literature. In the second part of the paper we show, based on a small-scale ethnographic study and systematic observation, how often visualisations are part of the case file in Dutch hearings, what types of images are talked about and/or shown and by whom they are introduced during the hearing. We conclude by discussing what communication scholars find interesting about these observations and we also suggest a number of research opportunities that may be of interest for interdisciplinary research amongst law and communication scholars.Lisanne van WeeldenTessa van CharldorpUtrecht University School of LawarticlecommunicationlawvisualisationsimagespersuasioncourtLaw in general. Comparative and uniform law. JurisprudenceK1-7720ENUtrecht Law Review, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 26-37 (2019)
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description	Images such as photographs, drawings, animations and videos are everywhere in modern society and are playing an ever-increasing role in court. This general shift from written and spoken language to ‘visual language’ in society has been of interest to language and communication researchers for years. Within the domain of law, however, a lot of the language and communication literature is traditionally focused on written and spoken language. In the first part of this paper we provide a theoretical background in which we discuss how people understand images, what visual literacy means, how images can have persuasive power and can influence people in terms of their emotions, attitudes and decision-making and we talk about how this can play a role in court. Furthermore, we illustrate some gaps in the literature. In the second part of the paper we show, based on a small-scale ethnographic study and systematic observation, how often visualisations are part of the case file in Dutch hearings, what types of images are talked about and/or shown and by whom they are introduced during the hearing. We conclude by discussing what communication scholars find interesting about these observations and we also suggest a number of research opportunities that may be of interest for interdisciplinary research amongst law and communication scholars.
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title	A Communications Perspective on the Use of Visualisations in a Dutch Court for Minor Felonies
title_short	A Communications Perspective on the Use of Visualisations in a Dutch Court for Minor Felonies
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publisher	Utrecht University School of Law
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A Communications Perspective on the Use of Visualisations in a Dutch Court for Minor Felonies

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