Visual Citizenship

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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