Political Engagement Through Visual Mediation: the Visuality of the Christchurch Attack and a Cross-Governmental Analysis of Performative Populist Responses

dc.authorscopusid57207256443
dc.contributor.authorArda,B.
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-15T19:42:28Z
dc.date.available2024-10-15T19:42:28Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentKadir Has Universityen_US
dc.department-tempArda B., Kadir Has University, Turkeyen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the role of visual communication technologies in political engagement through a case study that examines politics in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shooting on March 15, 2019. It explores how the live-streamed display of the attack reproduced the features of personalized framing in social media, and how such mediation has been conceived by populist politics and instrumentalized to counterbalance this peculiar act of violence. Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, evoked empathy among different religious groups and solidarity with Muslim communities by supporting the #HeadscarfForHarmony campaign on social media. At the same time, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used the video footage of the mosque shooting for his election campaign to incite anti-Christian sentiment. This comparative analysis offers a cross-governmental perspective and questions how the political culture of populist governmentality determines the resources for citizens’ participation through patterns of communication. I contend that the political culture of citizen engagement in populism is eligible to be radically changed to correspond to contemporary visual communication design technologies. © 2023 (Balca Arda). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at http://ijoc.org.en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount1
dc.identifier.endpage1485en_US
dc.identifier.issn1932-8036
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85179417995
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage1466en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/6553
dc.identifier.volume17en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.institutionauthorArda,B.
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Southern Californiaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Communicationen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount1
dc.subjectpersonalized politicsen_US
dc.subjectpolitical immediationen_US
dc.subjectpolitical resourcesen_US
dc.subjectpopulismen_US
dc.subjectvisual communication technologiesen_US
dc.subjectvisual politicsen_US
dc.titlePolitical Engagement Through Visual Mediation: the Visuality of the Christchurch Attack and a Cross-Governmental Analysis of Performative Populist Responsesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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