Research Handbook on Visual Politics

Research Handbook on Visual Politics
Author: Darren Lilleker
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2023-01-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1800376936

The Research Handbook on Visual Politics focuses on key theories and methodologies for better understanding visual political communication. It also concentrates on the depictions of power within politics, taking a historical and longitudinal approach to the topic of placing visuals within a wider framework of political understanding.

Visual Politics in the Global South

Visual Politics in the Global South
Author: Anastasia Veneti
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2023-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3031227824

The role of the visual in politics is gaining momentum in scholarly work concerned with the current social media landscape. It is widely acknowledged that the production, dissemination and consumption of visual products in the Global South is powerfully shaped by geo-politics and a power dynamics in which the Global North dominates the South (the cultural imperialism argument). However, scant attention has been paid to theoretical, methodological, and empirically grounded approaches to visual politics produced by scholars working in the Global South. Little is known about the ways in which scholarship in the Global South might challenge and resist western approaches to the study of the visual. Against this background, this project aims to examine visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the relation between state and citizens) and public and everyday politics (e.g., social movements, activism, grassroots politics, civil society initiatives). This volume examines visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the relation between state and citizens) and public and everyday politics. It will be of interest to both researchers and students interested in the study of visual politics from various disciplinary lens (media and communication, anthropology, politics, and sociology).

Handbook of Digital Politics

Handbook of Digital Politics
Author: Stephen Coleman
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2023-11-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1800377584

This thoroughly revised second edition Handbook examines the latest knowledge and perspectives on digital politics. Leading scholars explore the expansion of digital technologies, channels and styles as it shapes political dynamics.

Handbook of Political Discourse

Handbook of Political Discourse
Author: Piotr Cap
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1800373570

Synthesising diverse research avenues for politics, discourse, and political discourse, this cutting-edge Handbook examines the formative traditions, current theoretical and methodological landscape, and genres and domains over which political discourse extends.

Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth

Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth
Author: Judith Bessant
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2024-05-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803921803

In this groundbreaking Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth, researchers from the Global North and South examine the social, political, cultural and ecological processes that inform what it means to be young. It explores the diversity of youth experiences and ways young people live their lives, responding to and actively working to overcome inequality, adversity and planetary crises.

Visual Political Communication

Visual Political Communication
Author: Anastasia Veneti
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2019-06-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030187292

This book offers a theoretically driven, empirically grounded survey of the role visual communication plays in political culture, enabling a better understanding of the significance and impact visuals can have as tools of political communication. The advent of new media technologies have created new ways of producing, disseminating and consuming visual communication, the book hence explores the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of visual political communication in the digital age, and how visual communication is employed in a number of key settings. The book is intended as a specialist reading and teaching resource for courses on media, politics, citizenship, activism, social movements, public policy, and communication.

Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change

Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change
Author: David C. Holmes
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789900409

Drawing together key frameworks and disciplines that illuminate the importance of communication around climate change, this Research Handbook offers a vital knowledge base to address the urgency of conveying climate issues to a variety of audiences.

Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics

Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics
Author: Ceron, Andrea
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2022-10-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1800374267

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics is a landmark resource that offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which technological development is reshaping politics. Providing an unparalleled starting point for research, it addresses all the major contemporary aspects of the field, comprising entries written by over 90 scholars from 33 different countries on 5 continents.

Fast Politics

Fast Politics
Author: Laura Pérez Rastrilla
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9819951100

The goal of this book is to show the role of TikTok as a tool for political purposes. To this end, the authors analyse the messages posted on this social medium by political figures and institutions such as politicians and political parties, their impact on political landscapes, as well as the transformation of political communication techniques in order to suit the platform’s features. In the last two years, the exponential growth of TikTok has led an increasing number of politicians and institutions to incorporate it into their communication strategies. The platform displays some very different features from other social media that determine the way in which the content is presented. In addition, it manages to reach an audience that normally does not access or share political messages. Within this context, the volume pursues two main objectives. First, to examine how the communication techniques and the peculiarities of this social medium – where short videos with actors in informal attitudes prevail – affect the political message. A second objective is to analyse the influence of the messages distributed through TikTok that redefine political scenarios, and of the relationships of politicians and parties with voters. The core of the book comprises case studies that are organised into three parts, with nine chapters in all. The authors are scholars and practitioners of political communication, with diverse geographical representation, who approach the topics from a range of methodological perspectives. The first part addresses the state of the art and the influence of TikTok features on the way political communication is performed. The second part discusses the influence of TikTok on electoral scenarios and political culture in India, Bangladesh, the United States, and Ecuador. Finally, in the third part, TikTok is analysed as an instrument for promoting far right politicians and parties in Europe, as in the case of Matteo Salvini in Italy, and AfD in Germany and Vox in Spain. The volume is oriented to both scholars and communication professionals, such as journalists, communication consultants, and speechwriters, who want to become familiar with the platform, learn about its political impact, or wish to deepen their understanding of transformations in communication techniques and their adaptation to this growing social medium.