Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

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In line with these findings, we expect that personalized images will be more liked on both platforms (H4), but based on the above discussion of cross-platform differences, we also hypothesize that on Facebook, users may be more open to formal, political work–related individualized images (H5), while on Instagram, privatized pictures should be more likely to be liked (H6). Drawing on queer and postcolonial theory it proposes bossiness as a framework through which to foreground the desiring, but not always hierarchical, but never fully stabilised, power relations that shape the production, reception and circulation of art. It will also appeal to others interested in ecology, radical environmental politics, and activism, and is an excellent supplemental text in advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in these areas. They can also be carefully constructed, such as when British the prime minister, Boris Johnson, spoke recently in front of ranks of uniformed police officers – a setting which may have been planned to enforce an image of power and strength.

This was the first election when politicians intensively used it; therefore, they may have lacked the relevant expertise needed to run an effective campaign on it. In the context of election campaigns, for example, the digital age enables a more negative environment. On Facebook, creating a connection between ordinary users requires reciprocity by default, while on Instagram one-sided following is the way to connect with someone. Image Politics also exhibits how such events create opportunities for a politics that does not rely on centralized leadership or universal metanarratives.This exceptional volume examines “image events” as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists. Dilip Gaonkar, PhD, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois "Blending theoretical perspectives from diverse disciplines. Meditation II: The Possibilities of Nature in a Postmodern Age: The Case of Environmental Justice Groups. Depiction of family members is popular, while spontaneous pictures are unpopular among users on both platforms.

Beyond the overall distribution, we calculated the share of our elements for personalized posts separately (sixth and seventh columns in Table 3), but the main patterns are the same as in the total sample. 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. Since that was published, however, Sunak has shifted his rhetoric on AI from talking mostly about the opportunities it will present to warning that it needs to be developed with “guardrails”. Facebook posts were collected by using the Python-based Facebook-page-post-Scraper package (see https://github.Therefore, our cross-platform investigation compares visual communication tools employed on these sites. However, several results contradict our expectations, such as the higher popularity of non-political content on Facebook. The book is full of interesting and useful information--for instance Abbie Hoffman's realization in the 60s of the power of the televised image and the later 'yippie' connection to Earth First!

The aim of the first three groups of categories is to identify basic visual tools and their broader context. Interestingly, images that were posted on both platforms are closer to a typical Instagram than Facebook post. 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.Although our investigation is primarily of an explorative nature because most categories under investigation are not predetermined, some hypotheses can still be formulated.