12 When Twitter Got #woke : Black Lives Matter, DeRay McKesson, Twitter, and the Appropriation of the Aesthetics of Protest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures and Tables 7
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. Preface: Devisualize 11
6. Introduction: The Aesthetics of Global Protest : Visual Culture and Communication 15
7. Part I: Performance, Art and Politics
8. 1 Queer Visual Activism in South Africa 39
9. 2 The Use of Visibility in Contentious Events in Northern Ireland 59
10. 3 Maybe, We Will Benefit from Our Neighbour’s Good Fortune : An Exhibition on Collectivity, Community, and Dialogue in Turkey 81
11. 4 Political Street Art in Social Mobilization : A Tale of Two Protests in Argentina 99
12. 5 Archiving Dissent : (Im)material Trajectories of Political Street Art in Istanbul and Athens 121
13. 6 The Introvert’s Protest : Handwriting the Constitution and the Performance of Politics 141
14. Part II: Visual Activism and Digital Culture
15. 7 Photography and Protest in Israel/Palestine : The Activestills Online Archive 151
16. 8 Drones, Cinema, and Protest in Thailand 171
17. 9 Bearing Witness to Authoritarianism and Commoning through Video Activism and Political Film-making after the Gezi Protests 191
18. 10 Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube 211
19. 11 The Activist Chroniclers of Occupy Gezi : Counterposing Visibility to Injustice 233
20. 12 When Twitter Got #woke : Black Lives Matter, DeRay McKesson, Twitter, and the Appropriation of the Aesthetics of Protest 247
21. Part III: Conclusion
22. 13 Conclusion : Reflections on Protest and Political Transformation since 1789 269
23. Index 293