[Air-L] Special Issue: "Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: Mixed Methods, Data Curation & Anti-Publics"

[Tom Divon]

Dear community members,

We are delighted to share the publication of our special issue - "Methods
in Visual Politics and Protest: Mixed Methods, Data Curation &
Anti-Publics" - in the Journal of Digital Social Research. This publication
marks the first installment of a double-special issue dedicated to the
exploration of methods in visual politics and protest, with the
anticipation of the second part to be released in the coming months. This
issue assembles five pioneering articles that confront three pivotal
methodological challenges encountered throughout the research process -
from data access and collection to analysis and visualization. The
contributions within this issue notably advance mixed visual methods
approaches to the exploration of topics such as Memes, Far-Right
mobilization, Political Bots, and Political Feminism, while introducing
novel techniques for constructing and curating visual datasets, and
methodological explorations of visual anti-publics.

This first issue includes the following papers and is available here:

https://www.jdsr.io/vol-6-no-1-2024

--> (Intro to) Special Issue on Methods in Visual Politics and Protest:
mixed methods, data curation & anti-publics \ Suay Melisa Özkula, Tom
Divon, Hadas Schlussel, & Danka Ninković Slavnić

--> Analyzing Radical Visuals at Scale: How Far-Right Groups Mobilize on
TikTok \ Julian Hohner, Azade Kakavand, & Sophia Rothut

--> The contingent macro: The ephemerality of memes as discursive devices \
Giulia Giorgi & Ilir Rama

--> Quali-quanti visual methods and political bots: A cross-platform study
of pro- & anti-bolsobots \ Janna Joceli Omena, Thais Lobo, Giulia Tucci,
Elias Bitencourt, Emillie de Keulenaar, Francisco W. Kerche, Jason Chao,
Marius Liedtke, Mengying Li, Maria Luiza Paschoal, & Ilya Lavrov

--> Exploring feminisms on Instagram: Reflections on the challenges and
possibilities of incorporating digital methods strategies in feminist
social media research \ Sofia Caldeira

--> Networked masterplots: Music, pro-Russian sentiment, and participatory
propaganda on TikTok \ Marloes Geboers & Elena Pilipets

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*Tom Divon*
Media & Culture R*esearcher*
Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya
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*Publications*:
Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok
#Challenges
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607>.
Playful Publics on TikTok: The Memetic Israeli-Palestinian War of #CHALLENGE
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366530633_Playful_Publics_on_TikTok_The_Memetic_Israeli-Palestinian_War_of_CHALLENGE>
.
#JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359548581_JewishTikTok>.
Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds?
<https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-learn-about-the-holocaust-in-60-seconds-on-tiktok/>
PERFORMING DEATH AND TRAUMA? PARTICIPATORY MEM(E)ORY AND THE HOLOCAUST IN
TIKTOK# POVCHALLENGES
<https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/12995>

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