{"id":1895,"date":"2014-03-14T02:49:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T02:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=1895"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:18:14","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=1895","title":{"rendered":"Tit-for-Tat Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-The-Contentious-Bodies-and-Sex-Imagery-of-Political-Activism\/Jacobs\/p\/book\/9780367740412\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-The-Contentious-Bodies-and-Sex-Imagery-of-Political-Activism\/Jacobs\/p\/book\/9780367740412<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed in <a href=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=4691\">Visual Studies by Katharina Oehmichen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book examines the visual-sexual turn in social media discourses in the field of online activism with a particular focus on the extraordinary protest years of 2018-2020.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the socially engaged theory of \u201ctit-for-tat media\u201d and including case-studies on activist movements such as the Euro-American alt-right, the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, and revolutionary artists in China, this study reveals how visual cultures, including gendered or sexualized imagery, are utilised to influence public perception. By presenting in-depth explorations of online ethnography, interviews with activists and studies of the political histories and urban protests-environments, the volume uncovers how local artists, netizens and citizens are using media and digital imagery in contemporary activism.<\/p>\n<p>Covering a broad spectrum of social media content, from hyper-cute manga and cartoons to satirical pornography and sexualized hate-speech, it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of media and communication studies, political communication, sexuality and gender studies.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Tit-For-Tat-Media-The-Contentious-Bodies-and-Sex-Imagery-of-Political-Activism\/Jacobs\/p\/book\/9780367740412 Reviewed in Visual Studies by Katharina Oehmichen This book examines the visual-sexual turn in social media discourses in the field of online activism with a particular focus on the extraordinary protest years of 2018-2020. Presenting the socially engaged theory of \u201ctit-for-tat media\u201d and including case-studies on activist movements such as the Euro-American alt-right, the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=1895\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tit-for-Tat Media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3804,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1895","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":58,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5344,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1895\/revisions\/5344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}