Special issue on methods in visual politics and protest
Mixed methods, data curation & anti-publics
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https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v6i1.254Keywords:
visual methods, protest; politics, digital methods, social media imagesAbstract
This special issue draws together five articles in the arena of methods in visual politics and protest. It addresses three core methodological challenges across the research process (data access, collection, analysis, visualisation): the proliferation of visual social media, the emergence of novel visual practices, and the increasing application of digital methods. Their key contributions lie in the development of mixed visual methods approaches, new techniques for constructing and curating visual datasets, and methodological explorations of visual anti-publics
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