Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

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As coding visual material may allow more space to subjective judgments than textual data, each post was coded by three independent coders, and we accept only those codes that were recorded by at least two coders. From cave paintings to selfies, we have always used images to tell stories about our lives, experiences and understanding of the world.

This book is of interest to scholars and students of rhetorical theory, media and communication theory, visual theory, environmental studies, social change movements, and political theory.

Visuals have always been part of political communication; they have just become even more important with technological advances: from the printed press to the television, and finally the Internet. Image Politics also exhibits how such events create opportunities for a politics that does not rely on centralized leadership or universal metanarratives. No significant relationship can be found on Instagram, but this may be due to the fact that on this platform, almost all pictures are self-made, so the variance of this variable is low.

Die Beiträge zeichnen sich alle durch ihre hohe Qualität und trotz des Detailreichtums durch ein hohes Theorieniveau aus.

By doing so, we shed light on two important dimensions of personalization: individualization and privatization.