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Defaced election posters with erased party logos and added anarchy icons (found in Leipzig in 2013).
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Even in this media-centric age of the Internet, newspapers, television, and social networking, election posters are a significant form of communication in political campaigns. They are strategically placed to promote candidates and convince voters. However, viewers are not just passive receivers; they can also reciprocate and “jam” an election post...
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Über die Unterscheidung von Zentrum und Peripherie lassen sich Defizite, Ungleichheiten oder Machtgefälle relational verorten. Mit der Gegenüberstellung lässt sich aber auch von der Ungleichheitsforschung abgelöst ein divergentes Verhältnis im Denken und Handeln betrachten, welches neben den dominanten (zentralen) Denk- und Handlungsschemata ebenfalls das je Eigene in den Peripherien in den Blick nimmt. Der Beitrag argumentiert dazu mit dem Begriff der sozialen Peripherie für eine analytische Dreiteilung, in der die Peripherie den Grenzbereich zwischen einem Innen (Kern, Zentrum) und Außen markiert. Ein solches Konzept hat nicht zum Ziel, Ungleichheiten und Defizite sichtbar zu machen. Im Mittelpunkt steht vielmehr die empirische Rekonstruktion des Eigensinnigen in den Peripherien, um darüber unterschwellige Konfliktlinien und Potentiale zu reflektieren.
... The defacement of election posters, of course, complicates such political self-presentation and thus is often understood as vandalism or a politically motivated crime 1 . However, consulting the internet and other sources discloses a great variety of modifications from nationalistic to sexist to parody (Cammaerts, 2007;Dumitrescu, in press;Philipps, 2015). It raises questions about the extent to which defaced election posters transform the meaning of a poster and whether they merely destroy it. ...
... Despite this, studies on modified election posters assume a link between such practices and rather artistic or professional interventions inspired by the Situationists movement and political culture jammers (Cammaerts, 2007;Philipps, 2015;Schölzel, 2013;Teune, 2008). ...
... Nonetheless, each group uses election posters in different ways-predominantly either strategic or tactical-and it can be argued that defacements are tactical interventions that undermine election campaigners' strategic operations. Only a few scholars (Cammaerts, 2007;Dumitrescu, in press;Philipps, 2015) offer initial analytical approaches to examining how people (voters) make use of election posters that feature modifications and defacements. They describe such modifications as a tactical ploy within the layout of a poster. ...
Election campaigners draw upon posters to represent political parties and candidates in the streets. To date, scholars have largely focused on the strategies of campaigners. This paper initially explores the ways and means of defacement by studying modified election posters in the city of Leipzig in the weeks preceding the 2013 German federal election. The results show that a large number of observed modifications are simple and obvious, while only some defacements show subtle forms of political communication. It is argued, therefore, that defacements as alternative means of political communication are of limited significance in a rather pluralistic society.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/77JXDSTDUZU7DPKRGGPU/full?target=10.1080/02560046.2021.1952634
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