Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

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This conclusion indicates that beyond the common patterns, on Instagram visual communication is more of a tool to exhibit the “human” sides of politicians, while on Facebook it is used to provide insights into candidates’ political work.

Visuals on Facebook are predominantly about the campaign, they are taken in official settings, and the candidates usually appear in official clothes.

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. In crisp and assured prose, Levin reveals the era to be messier and more complex than previous studies have allowed it to be. Climate change in its scientific complexity is very difficult to imagine for people not involved in climate science; in daily experience, climate change cannot be directly grasped. The use of the “Hungarian flag” or its colors may aim to arouse national sentiments, but in itself, this element cannot be connected to the formal or informal dimensions. However, as politicians are keen to apply this element in their visual communication, it is important for our coding scheme to be able to capture it.

Facebook posts were collected by using the Python-based Facebook-page-post-Scraper package (see https://github. Widely televised environmentalist actions are analyzed in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfils fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming identities, discourses, communities, cultures and world views. These range from colorful expert graphics, model visualizations, photographs of extreme weather events like floods, droughts or melting ice, symbols like polar bears, to animated and interactive visualizations.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. 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”. Instagram has a smaller but still significant user base with 26 percent of the online population registered on it, but only 7 percent of them receive news from it ( Newman et al. While this engagement with the imagery obstructs any aim to distract from the violence taking place, it also raises questions regarding the selection and modification processes taking place.

While we generally do not have to turn people away, this does mean we cannot guarantee everyone a place. Further, Deluca extends the critiques of various cultural theorists and post-structuralist rhetoricians. While pictures are usually posted separately, uploading several photos as an album is quite usual on Facebook, while exceptional on Instagram.While official, campaign and policy-related content are used to present formal political objects, images of non-political and personal topics make posts more informal.

Author Kevin Michael DeLuca analyzes widely televised environmentalist actions in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfills fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming identities, discourses, communities, cultures, and world views. Often seen as problematic before the pandemic, as they were viewed as concealing something, masks now have more of a positive association with public health campaigns. This is not surprising, as it is now faster, easier, and more motivating than ever before to take and share pictures on social media platforms. For Levin, “the channeled image” names a constellation of practices that mimic, simulate, or disrupt the appearance of televised images. We expect that politicians on social media platforms predominantly use visual communication to personalize their appearance (H1).The printing houses of early modern times played an essential role in creating, disseminating and reviewing authorial portraits.