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…
Challenges and potentials of visual computational analysis Insights from a study on politicians’ self-depiction and their news portrayal
Visuals are omnipresent in contemporary online political communication. This can be considered a consequence of the development of new and more visual social media platforms such as Instagram, and has been fueled by the increasing mediatization and personalization of political processes. Research from psychology indicates…
A moving target. The methodological challenges of studying political actors on Instagram
Visuals have been part of political communication for a long time. Political TV-advertising, campaign posters, cartoons and even hand gestures have been studied. Over the past five years there has been a substantial increase of studies on visual political communication. Social media in particular seem…