Visual Citizenship - Communicating Political Opinions and Emotions on Social Media

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.

List 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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Bouko
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032505060
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250506-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; History, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, The arts, Humanities, Communication Studies, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, Semiotics / semiology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics