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Online visual activism in the #FeesMustFall university protests (2015-2016)
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/68247 Online visual activism in the #FeesMustFall university protests (2015-2016) Du Preez, Amanda deneesherpather@gmail.com Pather, Deneesher UCTD Visual activism Online activism Digital activism Social media activism Hashtag activism #FeesMustFall #RhodesMustFall #BlackLivesMatter Student protests Student activism Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-16 Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2018. In October 2015, students from the University of Witswatersrand (WITS) engaged in passionate protest after an announcement that university fees were set to increase by 10.5% in the following year. Nearly concurrently, students from the University of Cape Town (UCT) gathered to demand the felling of the statue of Cecil Rhodes. Both protests, termed Fees Must Fall and Rhodes Must Fall respectively, saw the spread of visually striking images, spread by the activists, news stations and spectators to the events on social media sites. My dissertation explores the role of visual activism from the Fees Must Fall movement with a focus on how the protest imagery both characterised and motivated spectators to side with the cause. With the American hashtag movement Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall as comparative case studies, I investigate the iconography of the movements, focussing on the use of the clenched fist gesture, images of pain and suffering, as well as transformation portraiture. I further explore the online dimension of the sharing of visual activism images and speculate as to how social networking sites encourage political activists to engage in affective arguments through their visual communication. National Research Foundation (NRF) ae2026 Visual Arts MA Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2019-01-25T07:05:56Z 2019-01-25T07:05:56Z 2019-04-11 2018 Dissertation Pather, D 2018, Online visual activism in the #FeesMustFall university protests (2015-2016), MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68247> A2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68247 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Visual activism Online activism Digital activism Social media activism Hashtag activism #FeesMustFall #RhodesMustFall #BlackLivesMatter Student protests Student activism Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-16 Online visual activism in the #FeesMustFall university protests (2015-2016) |
| title | Online visual activism in the #FeesMustFall university protests (2015-2016) |
| title_full | Online visual activism in the #FeesMustFall university protests (2015-2016) |
| title_fullStr | Online visual activism in the #FeesMustFall university protests (2015-2016) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Online visual activism in the #FeesMustFall university protests (2015-2016) |
| title_short | Online visual activism in the #FeesMustFall university protests (2015-2016) |
| title_sort | online visual activism in the feesmustfall university protests 2015 2016 |
| topic | UCTD Visual activism Online activism Digital activism Social media activism Hashtag activism #FeesMustFall #RhodesMustFall #BlackLivesMatter Student protests Student activism Humanities theses SDG-04 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-16 |
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