Overview

This book explores visual political engagement online – how citizens participate in the dynamism of life in society by expressing their opinions and emotions on various issues of democratic life in image-based social media posts, independently of collective actions. Looking beyond large digital social movements to focus on the everyday, the book provides a well-documented and comprehensive framework of key notions, concrete methods and examples of empirical insights into everyday visual citizenship on social media. It shows how the visual has become ubiquitous in citizens’ communication on social media, focusing on how citizens use visual content to express their emotions and opinions on social media platforms when they discuss politics in a large sense. With this book, every reader interested in political communication, visual communication and/or new media is fully equipped to analyse everyday visual citizenship on social media platforms. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Author:   Catherine Bouko
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.707kg
ISBN:  

9781032505060

ISBN 10:   1032505060
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   30 January 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Concepts Chapter 1. Everyday political expression as a citizenship practice Chapter 2. Citizenship, social media and visual cultures Chapter 3. Personalised citizenship Chapter 4. Visual creativity and civic engagement Chapter 5. Affective citizenship Part II: Methods Chapter 6. Challenges to the validity of visual studies Chapter 7. Systemic functional approaches to visual content Chapter 8. Methodological standards for quantitative content analysis of social media posts Chapter 9. Categories for visual content analysis Chapter 10. Appraisal in text-image social media content Part III: Empirical insights Chapter 11. The Brexit vote and its aftermath: quantitative results Chapter 12. Opinions and emotions in text-image relations Chapter 13. Metaphoric judgement and creativity in the Brexit context

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Catherine Bouko is Associate Professor of Communication and French at Ghent University (Belgium). Her main research is on political communication, extremism and citizenship on social media, with a special focus on image-based communication. Her methods of research include (multimodal) discourse analysis, quantitative content analysis, semiotics and ethnography.

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