Is the Picture in Focus? Images in Social Movement Mobilization

• In Event: New Directions in Media Effects

Brief Overview

We ask whether images can help to explain why some of these efforts succeed, and what types of images, if any, are most effective. We also propose an unsupervised computer vision technique to facilitate initial exploration large image datasets.

Authors

• Andreu Casas, University of Amsterdam

• Nora Webb Williams, University of Georgia

• Kevin Aslett, New York University

• John Wilkerson, University of Washington-Seattle Campus