Images, Politicians, and Social Media: Methodological Challenges of Investigating Visual Political Communication on Social Media
Research on politicians’ visual communication strategies on social media has flourished in the past few years (Veneti et al. 2019). This is not surprising, considering that compared with written or spoken texts, images are not only easier to recall, but can convey more specific messages…
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