Anti-Racist Video Activism: Framing and production of new knowledges that challenge the post-truth hegemonic project

Petrosian, Vardan 2023. Anti-Racist Video Activism: Framing and production of new knowledges that challenge the post-truth hegemonic project. PhD thesis University of Westminster Social Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/w3wy0

TitleAnti-Racist Video Activism: Framing and production of new knowledges that challenge the post-truth hegemonic project
TypePhD thesis
AuthorsPetrosian, Vardan
Abstract

In recent years, the rise of right-wing populism and post-truth politics has created a dangerous cocktail, enabling ‘immigration’ and ‘anti-racism’ to be framed within dominant political and media coverage in such a way that it stigmatises and marginalises foreign nationals migrating to the United Kingdom, replicating social injustice. Several activist groups within the broader anti-racist movement are engaging in contemporary forms of video activism alongside protest action to resist and challenge these frames and framing processes.

This thesis makes the necessary four-way theoretical and methodological links between hegemony, qualitative frame analysis, video activism and knowledge production to explore the ways in which dominant framings of immigration are resisted by the broader anti-racist movement. Using a broad framework combining film theory/studies and cinematography, the analysis of the visual strategies employed by eight activist groups within this movement within video activist footage disseminated on YouTube and Facebook provides unique insights into the groups themselves, and the various stylistic, shot, angling, sound and editing strategies employed that open up opportunities for framing. A further qualitative, and discursive, frame analysis explores the various frames that are used by the groups through video activism itself; persecution, hardship, heroism, empowerment, incompetence and anti-racism; producing different new knowledges surrounding organisational knowledges of the movement (including collective identity), social injustice in general, dominant hegemonic narratives, and, most importantly, the struggles of migrants and refugees.

In doing so, it makes significant contribution to knowledge by proposing three unique typologies to demonstrate how the contemporary hegemonic post-truth narratives surrounding immigration can be, and are being, resisted in order to reinforce social justice.

KeywordsVideo activism
anti-racism
immigration
hegemony
framing
social movements
knowledge production
qualitative research
visual analysis
frame analysis
social justice
Year2023
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File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
ProjectAnti-Racist Video Activism: Framing and production of new knowledges that challenge the post-truth hegemonic project
PublisherUniversity of Westminster
Publication dates
Published23 Jun 2023
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.34737/w3wy0

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