Paul Martin Lesteris a Clinical Professor for the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author or editor of several books that includeVisual Communication: Images with Messages, Seventh Edition(2017),Digital Innovations for Mass Communications: Engaging the User(2014), andImages that Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media, Third Editionwith Susan Ross (2011).

Stephanie A. Martin

is an Assistant Professor of political communication in the Division of Corporate Communication and Public Affairs at Southern Methodist University. She is editor ofColumns to Characters: The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age(2017). Her work has also appeared inRhetoric & Public AffairsandVisual Communication Quarterly, as well as in book chapters in several edited volumes.

Martin Smith-Rodden

is an Assistant Professor for Journalism and thecoordinator of the Photojournalism Sequence at Ball State University. He holds a PhD in Applied Psychological Science and a Master of Science in Experimental Psychology from Old Dominion University. For more than three decades he's been a photojournalist, photo editor and team leader, as well as being a cognitive psychologist.