Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

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However, there are major differences in the level of personalization of visual communication between the two platforms, as images are much more personalized on Instagram than Facebook. Kevin Michael DeLuca, PhD, has taught at the University of Virginia and the Pennsylvania State University and is currently an assistant professor of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. Meditation II: The Possibilities of Nature in a Postmodern Age: The Case of Environmental Justice Groups.

Second, while existing studies in the field focus on single platforms, we adopt a cross-platform approach as the architectures, affordances, and norms of specific sites significantly shape communication strategies (see Bossetta 2018). The idea of a specific productivity which is inherent to the authorial portrait is largely based on its affiliation with the paramedial apparatus of a book; it was only through its epi- or perimedial use that the portrait of the scholar underwent a functional transformation. Angela Krewani, MEDIENwissenschaft, 3 (2015) »Die im Band versammelten 16 Beiträge [machen] eindrucksvoll den Facettenreichtum des Gegenstandes deutlich. Formal and informal elements of visual communication are identified by inductive content analysis discussed in the “Method” section. Although the primary purpose of the study is explorative, it has also tested hypotheses regarding the personalized nature of visual communication and its cross-platform variations.Images depicting politicians’ family members are considered as informal, while pictures depicting other politicians are related to formal political work. The image had been manipulated from an original photo in which Sunak appears to have pulled a pub-level pint while the person behind him has a neutral expression. This exceptional volume examines “image events” as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists.

The interesting thing here is that they didn’t get rid of the previous law, so you were simultaneously required to wear and not wear a mask! Often seen as problematic before the pandemic, as they were viewed as concealing something, masks now have more of a positive association with public health campaigns. Recommended for libraries serving higher education programs in political science, mass communications, and environmental science. The findings show that the visual communication on both platforms is highly personalized, so our first hypothesis is supported. The sentiment of posts with pictures is predominantly positive, while content with negative or mixed sentiments is an exception.First, our goal is to elaborate an extensive coding scheme that investigates images as objects of interest on their own rather than pure illustration to textual communication and is thus suitable to offer a detailed map of political actors’ visual strategies. Furthermore, it refers to “connectivity” ( Ekman and Widholm 2017) through depicting “candidates” on their own, with “other politicians,” “family members,” or “ordinary citizens. To me, what’s interesting is how this simple object is manipulated, it’s about revealing and concealing and is deeply political. Image Politics shows how the earth itself is given voice--a multiplicity of voices, actually--as environmentalists, capitalists, and the press do battle in the public square. The aim of the first three groups of categories is to identify basic visual tools and their broader context.

The originality of the image has been decided by paying attention to the whole post and the caption as well: If the candidate did not indicate that the image was shared from another source, for example, other political actors, citizens, or media, or it was not an obviously reused image (widely circulated photos about political actors, imported illustrations, etc. This book examines the use of "image events" as a rhetorical tactic, one that often supplants written or spoken arguments. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . Hart, Liddell Professor of Communication and Government, University of Texas at Austin "DeLuca offers a penetrating reading of image events and their centrality in the rhetoric of new social movements. He also appears to be ever mindful of the image he portrays, putting great effort into his stance and gestures, and displays of presidential power.To account for other potential confounding factors, several control variables are entered into the models that are summarized in Table 2. Dilip Gaonkar, PhD, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois "Blending theoretical perspectives from diverse disciplines. For these reasons, on Instagram, politicians are under stronger pressure to exhibit their personal life and background rather than their political work. When it comes to the type of personalization employed by candidates, the results show further differences between the two platforms.

It won the Best Book Award 2022 from the International Political Sociology section of the International Studies Association and was shortlisted for the Susan Strange Best Book Award 2021 of the British International Studies Association. Interactions between Candidates and Followers on Facebook during the Hungarian General Election Campaign of 2014. She flagged efforts to regulate the use of AI in politics by the US congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who is proposing a law change that would require political adverts to tell voters if they contain AI-generated material. Interestingly, images that were posted on both platforms are closer to a typical Instagram than Facebook post.With the Great Walls film, I try to develop Chinese concepts to understand American policy and throughout the book I treat the Global South not just as a site of examples but as a site of concepts,” he explains. The use of symbolism is widespread in the political sphere, as political actors seek to harness the power of social media for impression management. Eine Publikation, die mit informierten und detaillierten Beiträgen der Komplexität des Themas bestens Rechnung trägt. It is this implicit basic assumption of the power of images to influence reality that we address in this book.