While political protest is essentially a visual expression of dissent, both social movement
research and media studies have thus far been hesitant to focus on visual social media data …

Social movements and the messages they wish to spread are essentially visual phenomena.
Although this is both an obvious and momentous assertion, social movement research has …

ABSTRACT Using the Gezi Park protests as a case study this article considers the
performative component of protest movements including how and why protestors actively …

Gatekeepers, including prerogative elites and institutions, possess multifaceted tools for
controlling information. Historically, these gatekeepers have systematically instrumentalized …

This article presents a temporal analysis of the activist remembrance of Silvio Meier, a
prominent member of Berlin's radical left scene, who was stabbed to death in 1992. It asks …

Since the military overthrow of President Mursi in mid-2013, Egypt has witnessed an
authoritarian rollback. Through a combination of repression and nationalist securitizing …

This chapter argues that in order to understand contemporary forms of video activism, we
need to extend our analytical scope beyond the confinements of the strategic work of social …

This book and associated collection of visual data and sociological observations examine
how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) has been visually re-imagined …

By situating debates on the virtues and limitations of practice theory in relation to the specific
field of video activism, this chapter inscribes itself into the burgeoning area of scholarship on …

The recent wave of occupations highlighted how closely space and social movements are
related. While this revived scholarly interest in the role of space during protests, little …