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How Kenyans on Twitter Use Visuals as a Form of Political Protest

Kommunikation.Medien, issue 12 (2020), 27 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 21-26

ISSN 2227-7277

CC BY-NC-ND

"The growth of the Internet in the last two decades has helped increase political and civic en-gagement and scrutiny. The growth of a digital economy in Kenya has led to the emergence of a vibrant online community with 89.7 % of the population having access to the Internet. This paper examines how Kenyans on Twitter (KOT) use visuals as a form of political protest. Using an open source data tool, the paper provides results from a qualitative analysis of 200 tweets that drove three political hashtags with a special focus on the most prominent memes, cartoons and pictures. This research finds that #KOT uses visuals to highlight government corruption and incompetence through mockery, condemnation and humour." (Abstract)