Images of surveillance

dc.contributor.authorDaphi, Priska
dc.contributor.authorLê, Anja
dc.contributor.authorUllrich, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-22T16:22:28Z
dc.date.available2016-01-22T16:22:28Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis contribution provides an analysis of images produced and employed in protests against surveillance in Germany in 2008 and 2009. For this purpose, a method of visual analysis is developed that draws mainly on semiotics and art history. Following this method, the contribution examines a selection of images (pictures and graphic design) from the anti-surveillance protests in three steps: description of components, detection of conventional signs, and contextual analysis. Furthermore, the analysis compares the images of the two major currents of the protest (liberal and radical left) in order to elucidate the context in which images are created and used. The analysis shows that images do not merely illustrate existing political messages but contribute to movements’ systems of meaning creation and transportation. The two currents in the protests communicate their point of view through the images both strategically and expressively. The images play a crucial role in formulating groups’ different strategies as well as worldviews and identities. In addition, the analysis shows that the meaning of images is contested and contextual. Images are produced and received in specific national as well as issue contexts. Future research should address the issue of context and reception in greater depth in order to further explore the effects of visual language on mobilisation. Overall, the contribution demonstrates that systematic visual analysis allows our understanding of social movements’ aims, strategy, and collective identity to be deepened. In addition, visual analysis may provide activists themselves with a tool to critically assess their visual communication.en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-78190-635-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/5261
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-4955
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.ddc300 Sozialwissenschaftende
dc.subject.othervisual analysisen
dc.subject.otherprotest movementsen
dc.subject.othersurveillanceen
dc.subject.othersemioticsen
dc.subject.otherart historyen
dc.subject.othercultureen
dc.subject.othervisuelle Analysede
dc.subject.otherProtestbewegungde
dc.subject.otherÜberwachungde
dc.subject.otherSemiotikde
dc.subject.otherKunstgeschichtede
dc.subject.otherKulturde
dc.titleImages of surveillanceen
dc.title.subtitlethe contested and embedded visual language of anti-surveillance protestsen
dc.typeBook Parten
dc.type.versionacceptedVersionen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitleAdvances in the visual analysis of social movementsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1108/S0163-786X(2013)0000035007en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.editorDoerr, Nicole
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.editorMattoni, Alice
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.editorTeune, Simon
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameEmeralden
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBingley [u.a.]en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend80en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart55en
tub.accessrights.dnbdomainen
tub.affiliationFak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften::Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschungde
tub.affiliationZentrale & sonstige Einrichtungen::Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG)de
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaftende
tub.affiliation.facultyZentrale & sonstige Einrichtungende
tub.affiliation.groupZentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG)de
tub.affiliation.instituteZentrum für Antisemitismusforschungde
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlinen

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