Impact of Social Media Visuals on People's Visual Communication during Social Movements in Bangladesh

MD Saiful Alam Chowdhury; Monira Begum; Shaolin Shaon

Authors

MD Saiful Alam Chowdhury
Monira Begum
Shaolin Shaon

Keywords:

social media, visual communication, social movements, visuals in social movements, manipulation of photos, social network

Abstract

The past decade has seen an armorial growth of the influence of social media on many aspects of people's lives. Social networking sites, especially Facebook, play a substantial role in framing popular view through its contents. This article explores the impact of visuals, especially photos and videos, published in social media during social movements. Importantly that some visuals received attention in social media during agitations which later got featured or become news in print, electronic and online news portal media as well. Some of the visuals later proved to be edited or fabricated contents which created confusion among participants in this research and beyond. The confusion has contributed to the acceleration or shrinkage of the movement in question in many cases. The center of this article is to examine how social media visuals influence people's visual communication during social movements. Additionally, it digs out the user's activity on social media during movements.

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Impact of Social Media Visuals on People’s Visual Communication during Social Movements in Bangladesh. (2019). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 19(A11), 9-17. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/101977

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