This study will attempt to carry out a semiotic analysis of the images that proliferated during the 2012 electoral process in Mexico, from the pre-carnpaign period to June 19, 2012. The analysis carried out here is ba...This study will attempt to carry out a semiotic analysis of the images that proliferated during the 2012 electoral process in Mexico, from the pre-carnpaign period to June 19, 2012. The analysis carried out here is based on the categories proposed by Eliseo Ver6n pertaining to the study of political images--from analysis of the semiological image to media discoursivities--which fit within the framework of the digital public sphere and participative visual activism. The official candidate websites are taken as sample, along with two Facebook sites which summarize critical images as well as the independent informational sites created by the #YoSoy132 movement.展开更多
文摘This study will attempt to carry out a semiotic analysis of the images that proliferated during the 2012 electoral process in Mexico, from the pre-carnpaign period to June 19, 2012. The analysis carried out here is based on the categories proposed by Eliseo Ver6n pertaining to the study of political images--from analysis of the semiological image to media discoursivities--which fit within the framework of the digital public sphere and participative visual activism. The official candidate websites are taken as sample, along with two Facebook sites which summarize critical images as well as the independent informational sites created by the #YoSoy132 movement.
