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Doing Visual Activism. A Practice-based Approach to the Study of Visual Social Media Use by Kia’i Mauna Kea
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Title: | Doing Visual Activism. A Practice-based Approach to the Study of Visual Social Media Use by Kia’i Mauna Kea |
Authors: | Karabelnik, Moshe |
Keywords: | Culture, Identity, and Inclusion mauna kea practice theory social movement show 1 morevisual social media show less |
Date Issued: | 05 Jan 2021 |
Abstract: | This article applies a practice-based approach to the study of social movements using visual social media. The article explores the visual practices of the social activist group Kia’i (protectors) [of] Mauna Kea, a sacred summit on the island of Hawai’i and the proposed location of the world’s largest telescope: The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Following Nick Couldry [1], this article poses the question: What do Kia’i do with visual social media? To answer this question, the use of Instagram by Kia’i was examined using the methodology of Visual Cross Platform Analysis [2]. This research expands on VCPA methodology, implementing a practice-based approach to uncover how practices of visual social media anchor [1] and overlap the practices of social movements [3]. This article brings to light some of the complex practices used by social activists to regain control over symbolic capital [4] from state and media institutions |
Pages/Duration: | 10 pages |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/70933 |
ISBN: | 978-0-9981331-4-0 |
DOI: | 10.24251/HICSS.2021.319 |
Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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Culture, Identity, and Inclusion |
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