Catherine Bouko is Associate Professor of Communication and French at Ghent University (Belgium). Her main research is on political communication, extremism and citizenship on social media, with a special focus on image-based communication. Her methods of research include (multimodal) discourse analysis, quantitative content analysis, semiotics and ethnography.

• IntroductionPart I: ConceptsChapter 1. Everyday political expression as a citizenship practiceChapter 2. Citizenship, social media and visual culturesChapter 3. Personalised citizenshipChapter 4. Visual creativity and civic engagementChapter 5. Affective citizenshipPart II: MethodsChapter 6. Challenges to the validity of visual studiesChapter 7. Systemic functional approaches to visual contentChapter 8. Methodological standards for quantitative content analysis of social media postsChapter 9. Categories for visual content analysisChapter 10. Appraisal in text-image social media contentPart III: Empirical insightsChapter 11. The Brexit vote and its aftermath: quantitative resultsChapter 12. Opinions and emotions in text-image relationsChapter 13. Metaphoric judgement and creativity in the Brexit context

Catherine Bouko is Associate Professor of Communication and French at Ghent University (Belgium). Her main research is on political communication, extremism and citizenship on social media, with a special focus on image-based communication. Her methods of research include (multimodal) discourse analysis, quantitative content analysis, semiotics and ethnography.

• IntroductionPart I: ConceptsChapter 1. Everyday political expression as a citizenship practiceChapter 2. Citizenship, social media and visual culturesChapter 3. Personalised citizenshipChapter 4. Visual creativity and civic engagementChapter 5. Affective citizenshipPart II: MethodsChapter 6. Challenges to the validity of visual studiesChapter 7. Systemic functional approaches to visual contentChapter 8. Methodological standards for quantitative content analysis of social media postsChapter 9. Categories for visual content analysisChapter 10. Appraisal in text-image social media contentPart III: Empirical insightsChapter 11. The Brexit vote and its aftermath: quantitative resultsChapter 12. Opinions and emotions in text-image relationsChapter 13. Metaphoric judgement and creativity in the Brexit context

Catherine Bouko is Associate Professor of Communication and French at Ghent University (Belgium). Her main research is on political communication, extremism and citizenship on social media, with a special focus on image-based communication. Her methods of research include (multimodal) discourse analysis, quantitative content analysis, semiotics and ethnography.

• IntroductionPart I: ConceptsChapter 1. Everyday political expression as a citizenship practiceChapter 2. Citizenship, social media and visual culturesChapter 3. Personalised citizenshipChapter 4. Visual creativity and civic engagementChapter 5. Affective citizenshipPart II: MethodsChapter 6. Challenges to the validity of visual studiesChapter 7. Systemic functional approaches to visual contentChapter 8. Methodological standards for quantitative content analysis of social media postsChapter 9. Categories for visual content analysisChapter 10. Appraisal in text-image social media contentPart III: Empirical insightsChapter 11. The Brexit vote and its aftermath: quantitative resultsChapter 12. Opinions and emotions in text-image relationsChapter 13. Metaphoric judgement and creativity in the Brexit context