A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book

Tipping Points in Social Networks and their Visual Impact. The "Jena Opposition" Case in the GDR




AuthorsElo Kimmo

EditorsKleemola Olli, Pitkänen Silja

Publishing placeTurku

Publication year2018

Book title Photographs and History. Interpreting Past and Present Through Photographs

First page 211

Last page232

Number of pages22

ISBN978-951-29-7480-1


Abstract

The bulk of studies on opposition and resistance in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) have thus far been dominated by studies focusing on certain phenomena or periods from the perspective of historical research. This chapter exploits an alternative, yet experimental, approach to GDR opposition based on an exploratory analysis of a large photograph corpus (hopefully) providing us not only with valuable data for the reconstruction of social networks, but also with visual content relevant for understanding changes in the visual representation of oppositional activities. From methodological perspective, the chapter should exemplify how digitised photograph corpora can be “distant read” as containers of information in order to extract a more focused sample for visual analysis.



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