Visual Citizenship

Communicating political opinions and emotions on social media
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-50506-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bouko, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.