Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

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Meditation II: The Possibilities of Nature in a Postmodern Age: The Case of Environmental Justice Groups. Karl Turner, the MP for Hull East, shared an image on the rebranded Twitter platform, X, showing the prime minister pulling a sub-standard pint at the Great British beer festival while a woman looks on with a derisive expression. These were supervised by Hole Rößler, Henrike Haug, Lea Hagedorn, Christian Hecht, Sophie Borges, Ellen Strittmatter and Daniel Berndt, respectively. To me, what’s interesting is how this simple object is manipulated, it’s about revealing and concealing and is deeply political.

They staged these “authentic” representations o Based on the key concept of iconic authorisation, the project focused on authentication, verification and valorisation of works, individuals and media, all of which are central functions of the authorial portrait. It seems that while candidates post numerous non-personalized visuals on Facebook, only the personalized ones are cross-posted on Instagram. To understand political actors’ visual communication strategies, we specify our RQ1 and adopt a cross-platform approach to explore what features can be considered general characteristics of social media visual communication (RQ1a), and what the platform-specific strategies are (RQ1b).Recommended for libraries serving higher education programs in political science, mass communications, and environmental science. For these reasons, on Instagram, politicians are under stronger pressure to exhibit their personal life and background rather than their political work. While on Facebook only little more than 50 percent of images are self-made and depict the candidate, on Instagram nine out of ten visuals are original content, and two-thirds of them show the politicians who own the profile. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Social media sites are ideal platforms for this strategy as they provide an opportunity for candidates to create their own personal profiles and address their followers directly ( Enli and Skogerbø 2013).

At the same time, we intend to bridge three significant gaps in the field of visual political communication.One of which looks at Great Walls and explores people’s relationships with walls and why many hate some walls, such as Trump’s wall, but love others, such as the Great Wall of China. Although the primary purpose of the study is explorative, it has also tested hypotheses regarding the personalized nature of visual communication and its cross-platform variations. and Poulakidakos and Giannouli (2019) highlight the presence of personalization on images, and although the visibility of top candidates is a crucial aspect of these studies, the visual differences between “personal and private” aspects are less emphasized. Deutschsprachige Bücher = gebundener Ladenpreis, fremdsprachige Bücher = unverbindliche Preisempfehlung. Visuals offer great opportunities to add more formal or informal layers to candidates’ personalized communication.