This special issue emphasizes memes as an avenue for researching vernacular
expressions of the political. Memes disrupt and reimagine politics in humorous ways …

How are images, emotions, and international politics connected? This article develops a
theoretical framework contributing to visuality and emotions research in International …

We would like to acknowledge all the people who assisted us in this endeavor. We first wish
to thank the editorial team at Palgrave Macmillan, in particular, Ambra Finotello, Senior …

One of the peak moments of the debate on the European refugee crisis was caused by the
circulation of images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean …

Abstract The September 2015 photograph of Alan Kurdi, a 3‐year‐old Syrian boy, lying
facedown and dead on a Turkish beach, quickly became an iconic representation of …

The European refugee crisis has been communicated visually through images such as
those of Alan Kurdi lying dead on the beach, by body bags on the harbor front of …

Aylan Kurdi 2 has shaken us from a national stupor. The image of the three-year-old, face
down in the sea, has finally made visible the fact we have so often ignored—that thousands …

This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their
role in sha** public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created …

This book investigates how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning.
Taking a narrative approach, it argues that dying, death, and mourning are shared online as …

This study proposes a framework for examining hashtagged content on social media, which
captures how specific issue frames (ie hashtags) contribute to navigable structures. We …