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Journal of Digital Social Research

Special issue: Visual Politics

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2024): Special issue on methods in visual politics and protest: Deconstruction, reflexivity & femmix

Special Issue on Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: Deconstruction, Reflexivity & femmix

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v6i2.278
Submitted
April 11, 2024
Published
2024-05-24

Abstract

This special issue forms the second part of a double issue on methods in visual politics and protest. It draws together five articles that provide new pathways for deconstructing visual political narratives and offers reflexive and nuanced accounts for researching visual data and information shared on social media platforms (here: TikTok, Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook). They do so through the application of feminist mixed methods (femmix), cross-platform analysis, and context-aware, comparative, and triangulated approaches. Taken together, the double issue offers a substantive compendium of articles exploring the latest methodological developments in visual politics and protest.

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