The exercise of power has been an implicit theme in research on the use of social media for
political protest, but few studies have attempted to measure social media power and its …

The cover image therefore also speaks to our interest in politics, and specifically in how
protesters harness the rhetorical power of the visual to fight the powerful. To simply bemoan …

Do images affect online political mobilization? If so, how? These questions are of
fundamental importance to scholars of social movements, contentious politics, and political …

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 …

The model minority stereotype has been widely criticized for creating distinctions between
racial groups by depicting some as more deserving than others. Immigration scholars have …

Images play a crucial role in shaping and reflecting political life. Digitization has vastly
increased the presence of such images in daily life, creating valuable new research …

Media actors, broadly conceived, act as powerful agents shaping not only what we think
about, but also how we think about it. Whilst research at the site of news content (eg …

This article investigates the use of social media for visual framing of the conflict in Eastern
Ukraine. Using a large set of visual data from a popular social networking site, Vkontakte …

This review paper explores the relationship between self-leadership, personality and job
satisfaction among employees. Self-leadership is define as a set of self-influence strategies …

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 …