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Communication, Cultural and Media Studies does not address me. I wondered not finding the key concept as its subtitle says. After reading I understood it as a philosophical dictionary. It contains a lot of links to other philosophical articles and books. It can be taken as a library of links. If you want to understand what an image is, first you should concern with Annette Kuhns feminist article "The Power of the Image" and then John Hartley teaches you Platos arguments. At the end, an image is understood as "the objectification of self-knowledge for communicative purposes". In my opinion an image is an image - a non text object fixed on a material like paper or in a file and not the imagination. The most popular example of an image is a photograph. And everybody knows, photos play an important role in communication processes. Even amateur photos. In seconds they go round the world and tell us stories.