Dear Colleagues, For those of you who might be interested: We are delighted to announce the publication of our Special Issue on "Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: deconstruction, reflexivity & femmix" in the Journal of Digital Social Research<https://www.jdsr.io/>, available here<https://www.jdsr.io/vol-6-no-2-2024>. This is the second of a double-special-issue on methods in visual politics and protest. We are very fortunate to have such a great group of authors with diverse foci. This second issue includes the following papers: (Intro to) Special Issue on Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: Deconstruction, Reflexivity & femmix. By Suay Melisa Özkula, Hadas Schlussel, Tom Divon, & Danka Ninković Slavnić Get the hammer out! Breaking computational tools for feminist, intersectional “small data” research By Radhika Gajjala, Ololade Faniyi, Debipreeta Rahut, Emily Edwards, & Sarah Ford Dwelling as Method: Lingering in/with Feminist Curated Data Sets on Instagram. By Brianna Wiens & Shana MacDonald Researching visual protest and politics with “extra-hard” data By Suay Melisa Özkula, Janna Joceli Omena, & Radhika Gajjala Understanding climate-related visual storytelling on TikTok: A cross-national multimodal analysis By Jing Zeng & Xiaoyue Yan Exploring leadership on Instagram: A visual model for online leadership analysis By Michele Martini Best wishes, Suay, Tom, Danka, & Hadas -- [I support fair work & do not expect colleagues to read or respond to emails after-hours, during weekends, outside of their part-time allocation, or during strike periods] Dr. Suay Melisa Özkula Post-doctoral Researcher Abtlg. Center for ICT&S Fachbereich Kommunikationswissenschaft Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 | 5020 Salzburg | Österreich/Austria https://www.kowi-salzburg.at/team/oezkula-suay/ Recent work: MSCA project "DIGI-EMP"<https://www.sis.unitn.it/2753/international-experiences-of-digital-empowerment-in-a-climate-justice-frame> https://visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com/the-visual-methods-collective/ Recent works: Özkula, S. M., Omena, J. J., & Gajjala, R. (2024). Researching visual protest and politics with “extra-hard” data. JDSR. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v6i2.214 Özkula, S. M., Schlussel, H., Divon, T., & Ninković Slavnić, D. (2024). Special Issue on Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: Deconstruction, Reflexivity & femmix. JDSR. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v6i2.278 Özkula, S. M., Divon, T., Schlussel, H., & Ninković Slavnić, D. (2024). Special Issue on Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: mixed methods, data curation & anti-publics. JDSR. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v6i1.254 Özkula, S. M. , Prieto-Blanco, P., Tan, X., & Mdege, N. (2024) Affordances and platformed visual misogyny: a call for feminist approaches in visual methods. FMS. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2311355