Images of protest in social media: Struggle over visibility and visual narratives
Images of protest in social media: Struggle over visibility and visual narratives
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社交媒体中的抗议图像：可见度和视觉叙事的斗争
作者：
Christina Neumayer;L. Rossi
虽然政治抗议本质上是异见的视觉表达，但到目前为止，社会运动研究和媒体研究都不愿关注抗议活动的视觉社交媒体数据。这项研究探索了2015年3月18日反对欧洲央行(ECB)总部在美因河畔法兰克福开设的Blockupy抗议活动中Twitter交流的视觉维度(照片和视频)。它通过定量分析、图像内容分析和叙事识别的新颖组合来做到这一点。文章最后认为，社交媒体中的政治抗议中的视觉再现了现有的视觉和等级制度，而不是挑战它们。这项研究增强了我们对活动家的斗争如何在视觉上发挥作用的概念性理解，并有助于开发对视觉社交媒体内容进行实证调查的方法。
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 from protest events. This research explores the visual dimension (photos and videos) of Twitter communication in the Blockupy protests against the opening of the European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt am Main on 18 March 2015. It does so through a novel combination of quantitative analysis, content analysis of images, and identification of narratives. The article concludes by arguing that the visual in political protest in social media reproduces existing visualities and hierarchies rather than challenges them. This research enhances our conceptual understanding of how activists’ struggles play out in the visual and contributes to developing methods for empirical inquiry into visual social media content.