Axel Philipps What Are the Characteristics of Defacements of Election Posters?
Axel Philipps is affiliated, as senior researcher, with the Institute of Sociology at Leibniz University Hannover. Some of his previous academic positions include that of interim associate professor at Siegen University and at Leibniz University. Among his research interests are the study of protests as well as text and image interpretation.
Area of Research
Sociology
2016-2016
Associate Professor (interim)
University of Siegen (Universität Siegen)
Institute of Sociology
2015-2016
Associate Professor (interim)
University of Hanover (Leibniz Universität Hannover) (more details)
Institute of Sociology
2013-2013
Research Fellow
University of Hanover (Leibniz Universität Hannover) (more details)
L3S-Web Science Research Center
2008-2015
2007-2009
Research Fellow
German Institute for Youth Human Services and Family Law
2007-2007
Lecturer
University of Erfurt (Universität Erfurt)
2005-2006
Lecturer
Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig)
2003-2005
Research Fellow
Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig)
2014
Habilitation
University of Hanover (Leibniz Universität Hannover) (more details)
Institute of Sociology
2007
PhD
Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig)
Institute of Sociology
1995-2001
Magister Artium
Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig)
Sociology, Philosophy and Cultural Science
University of Hanover (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
In 1831, founded by the scholar Karl Karmarsch, the “Higher Trade School of Hannover” started with only 64 students. Today there are more than 25,000 students in the natural sciences and engineering, the humanities and social sciences as well as in law and economics. In the future, too, studying, teaching and research are to be enjoyable, and therefore one of the declared goals of Leibniz Universität Hannover is to continually improve the quality of teaching and research. (Source)
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AXEL PHILIPPS investigates modes of visual protest. In this video, he describes his research of defacements of election posters on the streets. In order to determine the characteristics of these defacements, his research team used so-called ‘street reading’. They focused on defaced election posters on the main streets of Leipzig, Germany. Comparing their material to theoretical concepts drawn from the literature on the topic, they discovered that, mostly, the defacements are not very subtle but purely destructive – in contrast to the examples usually discussed in scholarly writing. Their most important finding was that these defacements often function as a channel for people’s sentiments that are not evident in the media or political discourse.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10492
Defaced Election Posters: Between Culture Jamming and Moral Outrage. A Case Study
- Axel Philipps, Hagen Schölzel and Ralph Richter
- Communication, Politics & Culture
- Published in 2016
Defacing Election Posters: A Form of Political Culture Jamming?
- Axel Philipps
- Popular Communication
- Published in 2015
