Research Handbook On Visual Politics

The Research Handbook on Visual Politics focuses on key theories and methodologies for better understanding visual political communication. It also concentrates on the depictions of power within politics, taking a historical and longitudinal approach to the topic of placing visuals within a wider framework of political understanding.

This book offers a theoretically driven, empirically grounded survey of the role visual communication plays in political culture, enabling a better understanding of the significance and impact visuals can have as tools of political communication. The advent of new media technologies have created new ways of producing, disseminating and consuming visual communication, the book hence explores the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of visual political communication in the digital age, and how visual communication is employed in a number of key settings. The book is intended as a specialist reading and teaching resource for courses on media, politics, citizenship, activism, social movements, public policy, and communication.

We live in a visual age. Images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. Other visual fields, from art and cartoons to maps, monuments and videogames, frame how politics is perceived and enacted. Drones, satellites and surveillance cameras watch us around the clock and deliver images that are then put to political use. Add to this that new technologies now allow for a rapid distribution of still and moving images around the world. Digital media platforms, such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, play an important role across the political spectrum, from terrorist recruitment drives to social justice campaigns. This book offers the first comprehensive engagement with visual global politics. Written by leading experts in numerous scholarly disciplines and presented in accessible and engaging language, Visual Global Politics is a one-stop source for students, scholars and practitioners interested in understanding the crucial and persistent role of images in today’s world.

Visuals are ubiquitous in politics. They frame the way viewers understand issues and events and they affect candidate evaluations and even voting behaviour. Nevertheless, little is known about the strategic use of visuals in election campaigns. This book investigates the visual communication strategies of political parties and candidates from both a longitudinal and a comparative perspective. It analyses tools such as campaign posters and social media profiles and demonstrates the relevance of visuals in Western democracies. 'Visual Politics' is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars and those interested in the role of visuals in election campaigns such as campaign strategists, parties, candidates and journalists.

The role of the visual in politics is gaining momentum in scholarly work concerned with the current social media landscape. It is widely acknowledged that the production, dissemination and consumption of visual products in the Global South is powerfully shaped by geo-politics and a power dynamics in which the Global North dominates the South (the cultural imperialism argument). However, scant attention has been paid to theoretical, methodological, and empirically grounded approaches to visual politics produced by scholars working in the Global South. Little is known about the ways in which scholarship in the Global South might challenge and resist western approaches to the study of the visual. Against this background, this project aims to examine visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the relation between state and citizens) and public and everyday politics (e.g., social movements, activism, grassroots politics, civil society initiatives). This volume examines visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the relation between state and citizens) and public and everyday politics. It will be of interest to both researchers and students interested in the study of visual politics from various disciplinary lens (media and communication, anthropology, politics, and sociology).

This second issue of the book series Visual Politics of War focuses on the implications and uncertainties associated with the ‘visual politics’ of the current media hostile environment. Over the years, academics, journalists and individuals have produced a body of work connected directly, if in complex and varied ways, to contemporary ideological beliefs. This volume draws together various scholars from different parts of the world examining facets of the new visualization of wars and crisis in a range of innovative ways. All the contributors here pose questions concerned with the significance of visual political works today, and ask how images and personas have developed and been appropriated by others with their own distinct political agendas.

Foreword -- Introduction to the research handbook on art and law / Jani McCutcheon and Fiona McGaughey -- Part I: Copyright's rights in art -- 1. Making art from words: the picturisation adaptation right in copyright law / Jani McCutcheon -- 2. The fine art of rummaging: successors and the life cycle of copyright / Eva E Subotnik -- Part II: Copyright's regulation of art -- 3. Regulating the artist: laws, norms and practices / Chris Dent -- 4. Copying artistic works: copyright, aesthetics, and artistic practice / Jonathan Barrett -- 5. The prince and the president's daughter: a tale of copyright and contemporary art / Julian R Murphy and Nicholas Modrzewski -- Part III: The outer boundaries of art in law -- 6. The curator's copyright / Alana Kushnir -- 7. Patentability and fine art / Michael Blakeney -- 8. Untangling copyright and trade marks in art and advertising / Amanda Scardamaglia -- 9. Demystifying colour regulation in art -- protecting substances, appearances and beyond / Ema Denby, Paul Green-Armytage and Jani McCutcheon -- Part IV: Regulating 'bad' art -- 10. Preventing art forgery and fraud through emerging technology: application of a regulatory pluralism model / Jade Lindley -- 11. The effectiveness of Australia's legal system in addressing problematic artwork / Dan Mossenson -- Part V: Art, law and the public interest -- 12. Preserving street art and graffiti: can the law reconcile the (often conflicting) rights of artists, property owners and local communities? / Enrico Bonadio -- 13. Classifying art in diverse legal regimes: the function-aesthetic divide and the public interest / Marta Iljadica -- Part VI: Art critiquing or girding legal systems -- 14. The exorcist: law's crimes and art's super powers / Desmond Manderson -- 15. Lady injustice: inequality and legal iconography / Ben Wardle -- Part VII: Law in art -- 16. Intellectual property law as artistic medium / Shane Burke -- 17. On the nullians / Jani McCutcheon -- 18. Thinking through seeing: legal minds and images / Ruth Herz -- Part VIIi multiplicity of interpretations -- 19. The public good in poetic justice: on the art (and law) of Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Sonia K Katyal -- 20. The decommission Of i see red : a case study in the relations between art and law / Lee Harrop and Nicolas J Bullot -- Part IX: Art, law, violence and crime -- 21. A law unto themselves: murals in the northern Ireland conflict / Fiona McGaughey -- 22. Breaking the frame: abortion under arrest in contemporary visual art? / Natalie Linda Jones -- 23. The artist turned criminal: emotional obstacles to severing the body from the body of work / Gregory Dale -- Part X: art in international law -- 24. Art and human rights law / Sarah Joseph -- 25. Image and art in the whaling in the antarctic case / Alice Palmer -- Index.

The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues. The Handbook: Offers a wide-range of methods for visual analysis: content analysis, historical analysis, structuralist analysis, iconography, psychoanalysis, social semiotic analysis, film analysis and ethnomethodology Shows how each method can be applied for the purposes of specific research projects Exemplifies each approach through detailed analyses of a variety of data, including, newspaper images, family photos, drawings, art works and cartoons Includes examples from the authors' own research and professional practice The Handbook of Visual Analysis, which demonstrates the importance of visual data within the social sciences offers an essential guide to those working in a range of disciplines including: media and communication studies, sociology, anthropology, education, psychoanalysis, and health studies.

This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study examples that examine the complexity of the hyper-visual social world we live in, exploring three domains of the ‘relational image’: the urban, social media, and the aerial. Zuev and Bratchford tackle issues such as visual politics and surveillance, practices of visual production and visibility, analysing the changing nature of the visual. They review a range of methods which can be used by researchers in the social sciences, utilising new media and their visual interfaces, while also assessing the changing nature of visuality. This concise overview will be of use to students and researchers aiming to adopt visual methods and theories in their own subject areas such as sociology, visual culture and related courses in photography, new-media and visual studies.