Example: Tucson Union School District (TUSD) attempts to ban Mexican-American Studies (MAS) at Tucson High School in 2011. The students attended the board meeting to protest TUSD by chaining themselves to their chairs so that pictures and videos would be taken and shared to raise awareness of the attempted banishment of their MAS classes.
Tucson High School students chained to chairs in TUSD boardroom to protest the banning of MAS in 2011.
Image credit: Bryan, Greg. "Protest takes over TUSD board meeting." Web. 04 February 2016.
From the text: The Deluca and Peeples article, "From Public Sphere to Public Screen: Democracy, Activism, and the 'Violence' of Seattle" focuses primarily on participatory democracy of citizens based on the importance of TV screens and other mass media circulation outlets. The authors state that an "image event" is "...understanding [that] mass media has translated into a practice of staging image events for dissemination," (192). Meaning individuals and groups of people are staging protests so that they are photographed and shared to reach a larger population quicker with what they believe to be a more powerful statement.
Works Cited:
DeLuca, Kevin and Peeples, Jennifer. "From Public Sphere to Public Screen: Democracy, Activism, and the "Violence" of Seattle." Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest. Browne, Stephen and Morris III, Charles, eds. State College, Pa: Strata Publishing, Inc., 2013
Bryan, Greg. "Protest takes over TUSD board meeting." Web. 04 February 2016. Retrieved from: http://tucson.com/gallery/photo-gallery-protest-at-tusd-meeting/collection_da09022e-708a-11e0-965b-001cc4c002e0.html#4
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