Images of protest in movement parties’ social media communication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6443483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthias Hoffmann (0000-0001-6480-3679, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, corresponding author), Christina Neumayer (0000-0003-0450-2983, University of Copenhagen) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 4929-4952 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614448241243352 |
| OpenAlex | W4394797545 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 54 |
This research investigates the strategic use of protest imagery on social media by movement parties, bridging the gap between protest and institutional politics. We apply a mixed-methods analysis of 9584 Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram image posts by seven movement parties between 2015 and 2021. We find that protest images frequently serve to amplify movement grievances. Yet, parties’ involvement with contentious protest forms undergoes temporal shifts, influenced mainly by their evolving positions within the polity. Moreover, parties’ engagement with protest images differs by country and ideological leaning. Movement parties on the Right express a conflictual position between supporting and delegitimizing different protests. Conversely, Left-leaning counterparts tend to support protest, yet veer toward deradicalization and emphasizing symbolism over disruptive tactics, once they become more institutionalized. This research highlights the intricate relationship between movement parties, protest, and visual narratives on social media, in light of the interplay between movements and institutional politics
Aesthetics · Ideology · Media studies · Movement (music · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Social media · Social movement · Sociology · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Media and Politics
The social movement society
From mobilization to revolution
The Right to Look
Movement Parties
The Visual Image and the Political Image
The Digital Architectures of Social Media
Introduction
In search of the ‘we’ of social media activism
Sharing the hate? Memes and transnationality in the far right’s digital visual culture
Understanding movement parties through their communication
The playful politics of memes
Reverting trajectories? Ukip’s organisational and discursive change after the Brexit referendum
Politicizing Social Inequality
Movement parties’ interactions on social media
A party within a party posing as a movement? Momentum as a movement faction
Visions of Protest. A Media‐Historic Perspective on Images in Social Movements
Some have ideologies, we have values’
Challenges from left and right
Between party and movement
Picture-perfect populism
Images of protest in social media
The rise of Instagram as a tool for political communication
Measuring Violence
Protest logics and the mediation opportunity structure
Digital images and globalized conflict
Mutual affordances
Social Boundary Mechanisms
The excluded ordinary? A theory of populist radical right supporters’ position in society
Movements and Media as Interacting Systems
Protesting Parties in Europe
Different worlds of contention? Protest in Northwestern, Southern and Eastern Europe
Visual cross-platform analysis
Conflictual Media Events, Eyewitness Images, and the Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr as platforms of alternative journalism
The Middle Region Populism of Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Renzi on Instagram
Towards a New Typology of Party Lifespans and Minor Parties
Close ever, distant never? Integrating protest event and social network approaches into the transformation of the Hungarian far right
Ballots and barricades enhanced
Movement Parties of the Far Right
How Political Parties Respond to Pariah Street Protest
It’s Not the Left
Fields of contention as a prism
The Visual Politics of the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
Social media and populism
Picturing Protest
Invisible Data
Mechanisms of Selection in Claiming Narrative Identities
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |