Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

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org/fact-tank/2019/04/10/share-of-u-s-adults-using-social-media-including-facebook-is-mostly-unchanged-since-2018/. His major area of interest is how industrial cultures relate to the natural world and construct visions of "nature.

One of which looks at Great Walls and explores people’s relationships with walls and why many hate some walls, such as Trump’s wall, but love others, such as the Great Wall of China. Turning to the formal and informal elements, it seems that on Facebook, people particularly like visuals where political work is more at the forefront, such as policy content and posts where logos appear, while on Instagram, these visual tools do not trigger more reactions.It could be a major move forward in the study of user engagement if visual and textual elements were distinctly categorized. The close interlinking of the author's viewpoints promotes in-depth insights into issues of production and analysis of climate visualization like the power of images, their frictions and expressiveness, and how such images are able to depict uncertainty.

In June Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, warned that governments had until the beginning of next year to tackle the issue of AI-generated disinformation. To avoid bias due to captions, the analyses have been limited to posts where textual content does not carry any additional information.Hence, to grasp these less studied aspects, we apply Van Aelst and colleagues’ (2012) conceptualization that differentiates between two main dimensions of personalization: (1) Individualization means that instead of parties, individual politicians appear as central actors in the political arena; and (2) privatization means that politicians are presented as private individuals—their personal characteristics and lives are at the forefront of communication instead of their professional features. A large number of images show family members, convey non-political or personal messages, and are frequently taken as selfies.