Shahbaz Aslam

Heroism to tragedy: A social semiotic analysis of visual framing in Ukraine–Russia and Israel–Gaza conflicts

This paper presents a comparative visual approach to the photography of war by international news media, that is, CNN, BBC, and Al-Jazeera English to two conflicts, the Russia–Ukraine and Israel–Palestine Gaza. We use visual grammar by Kress and van Leeuwen and framing theory by...

Immersive affordances and problematic consumption in virtual reality erotic content use: extending a Cognitive-Behavioral Model

Abstract Existing cognitive-behavioral accounts of problematic technology use were developed for screen-based media and do not incorporate the distinctive immersive affordances of virtual reality (VR). Drawing on the Cognitive-Behavioral Model, this study tests an extended model...