Over the last four decades, new modes of communication have redefined people's
engagement with media: media audiences are now also makers, influencers, followers …

August 17, 2012 was a “Global Day of Action” in support of Pussy Riot, a radical feminist
performance group from Russia who had been incarcerated for their “Punk Prayer” at the …

Le black bloc est une tactique urbaine qui consiste à manifester cagoulé et vêtu de noir afin
de préserver collectivement l'anonymat militant. Apparue dans les milieux anarchistes et …

This study focuses on the Hong Kong Lennon Walls and the communications posted there.
We assert that the physical placement of COVID-19 related images on the Lennon Walls of …

This paper describes the appropriation of video game culture for discursive use during the
2019–20 Hong Kong anti-extradition movement, with participants relying on game argot for …

Black bodies at risk are in constant conversation with each other. The Black witness who
films a fatal police encounter on her phone is talking to the Black victim, promising not to …

Since 2008 an object has become part of the repertoire of demonstrations, the mask. First in
the Global North and then worldwide, a variety of masks–from that of the film V for Vendetta …

Exploring medium-to-large datasets of social media imagery can be challenging. This paper
describes a digitally-assisted iconology, a hybrid methodology that includes machine …

Scandinavian exceptionalism effectively conceals a colonial history in which, for centuries,
the indigenous Sámi population have suffered discrimination from the dominant culture and …

My discussion of the iconic Guy Fawkes mask as a transnational phenomenon is not
founded on an in-depth empirical analysis. Rather, I will analyze its symbolic functions and …