Britain’s shock election and its surprising result allows us to see a relay between visual media, the online world and the political one we live in.
- Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
A scholar of visual culture sees a transition happening online as the alt-right reinterprets images of police shootings to push back against the gains made by Black Lives Matter.
Was the latest GOP debate designed just to give candidates – and viewers – something to tweet about?
Powerful images – like the one of Aylan Kurdi that flooded the Internet last week – can spark political change.
A movement grew out of Michael Brown’s death one year ago. The people in #BlackLivesMatter want us to fully witness violence against black youth. Their tools are cell phones and social media.
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