PhD Candidate: Teresa Valle

This PhD project is built on two central premises: first, that politics are increasingly visual, and second, that publics are increasingly driven by affect. We investigate how images shape and sustain affective publics, particularly focusing on anger as a political strategy and as potential consequence. By focusing on political elites, audience effects, and the news media, this project contributes to a deeper theoretical and empirical understanding of how visual politics shape the functioning of contemporary politics.