Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

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Interestingly, Keller and Kleinen-von Königslöw (2018) argue that in social media both dimensions are present as part of the entertaining political communication style; however, individualization is more common than privatization. Ultimately, DeLuca demonstrates how a 'critical rhetorician' might use the critical tools of post-structuralism to understand the political leverage representational rhetorics provide--and thus how environmental activists might shift systems of shared meanings, even against the full cultural weight of industrial capitalism.

Extensive opportunities for visual communication on these platforms can further intensify personalization: While it may be difficult to express substantial policy messages through pictures, they are especially suitable to present politicians’ personal images.

The aim of the inductive analysis was to formulate categories that describe the images in a detailed way and find the most appropriate groups of categories that help investigate as many aspects of the image as possible. We argue that this approach offers a more nuanced understanding of politicians’ personalization strategies. Political leaders use visual communication to shape their public image, and subtle differences in visual representation can have significant effects on their public perceptions. even if weak ties proliferate here, while on Instagram it is more common to follow users who are not known in person.

These were supervised by Hole Rößler, Henrike Haug, Lea Hagedorn, Christian Hecht, Sophie Borges, Ellen Strittmatter and Daniel Berndt, respectively. Personalization can be described briefly as the process in which “individual political actors have become more prominent at the expense of parties and collective identities” ( Karvonen 2010: 4). With texts by Bini Adamczak, Nana Adusei-Poku, Kerstin Brandes, Jess Dorrance, Antke Engel, Coco Fusco, Katalin Halasz, Katrin Kppert, Renate Lorenz, Sandra Ortmann, Tim Stttgen a.Self-made visual content and images that highlight personal traits ( Lalancette and Raynauld 2017) or candidates’ personal backgrounds ( Liebhart and Bernhardt 2017) are effective tools to foreground politicians while leaving their parties in the background.

At the same time, we intend to bridge three significant gaps in the field of visual political communication. At the same time we are confronted with – often conflicting – climate information and the inability to imagine possible climate futures. When was the last time you cried while watching a film, felt connected to someone by looking at a photograph or laughed during a play? No significant relationship can be found on Instagram, but this may be due to the fact that on this platform, almost all pictures are self-made, so the variance of this variable is low. Personalized Campaigns in Party-Centered Politics: Twitter and Facebook as Arenas for Political Communication.

From Greenpeace protesters confronting whaling ships to activists occupying trees, radical environmentalists increasingly rely on attracting mass media coverage to gain visibility and public support. 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. It is claimed that using pictures which are as effective as possible helps to vividly put across to the recipients what they are unable to envision and become conscious of by means of text alone.

As our dependent variables are over-dispersed count data and they are nested in the level of pages, we ran multilevel negative binomial regression models with a random intercept on the level of candidates. In crisp and assured prose, Levin reveals the era to be messier and more complex than previous studies have allowed it to be.Comparing the responses over that time shows a general increase in the willingness to share data (and thus engage in Open Science). 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. While some studies take into account both textual and visual elements of social media posts when investigating effects on user engagement ( Bene 2017; Heiss et al. We argue that politicians are able to personalize their visual presence on these platforms by offering original visual content and images depicting themselves.