pin themes

the themes I selected live here ->

other found themes are acknowledged below. I didn’t focus heavily on the specific contents/messages of the images so much as their format, metadata, purpose and potential for resulting action

initial codes

descriptive

code	surprising?	expected?	found?
slogan	expected	many	many
poster or print	expected	many	many
art with artist unsourced/unsourceable	expected	many	many
protest sign	expected	some	some
crafts, tapestries, etc	emergent	-	some
punk jackets, patches and pins	emergent	-	many
illustration	expected	some	many
collage or photoset	expected	some	some
historical image	expected	many	some
historical artefact	emergent	-	some
photoshopped meme	emergent	-	some
captioned meme	expected	some	some
manifesto	emergent	-	some
step-by-step	expected	some	some
mind-map or minimally diagramattic	emergent	-	some
full diagram	expected	some	some
title and description	expected	some	some
link sourced	expected	many	many
link rot	expected	many	many
commercial link	expected	many	many
from listicles and reposts	emergent	-	some
single phrase ‘destroy’/‘abolish’/etc	emergent	-	many
street poster/art, sourced and unsourced	emergent	-	some
Tumblr screenshot	expected	many	many
other social media screenshot	expected	some	many
instructions/specifics in image	expected	some	some
reformatted or screenshotted quote	expected	some	some
other quote-as-image	emergent	-	some
existing/known/common meme format	emergent	-	some
extensive text in meme	expected	some	some
aestheticised text or formatted text as image	expected	some	some
some source in image, possibly findable	emergent	-	many
Tumblr as source	emergent	-	many
other social media source	emergent	-	some
book cover or reading list	expected	some	some
linking other media quotes eg through screencaps and comic panels	emergent	-	some

interpretative

code	surprising?	expected?	found?
encourages ‘direct action’, taking control, etc	expected	some	many
opposes specific/named act/policy/regime/etc	expected	some	many
other memes, general satire or complaint	expected	some	some
clearly actionable individual acts	expected	some	some
clearly actionable within willing local community	expected	many	some
clearly actionable with numbers/globally/by those in power	expected	some	many
encourages actionable lifestyle or mindset change	emergent	-	many
otherwise useless or irrelevant source	emergent	-	many
artist link where source link would (also) be useful	emergent	-	many
link is relevant/good resource/s	expected	some	many
source link to a resistive community, forum or movement	emergent	-	some
ironic, threat softened, revolutionary ‘vagueposting’, humour to perhaps retain denial/ambiguity of intent	emergent	-	some
we will x in the future, better world, utopia	emergent	-	some
x a thing that happens - isn’t that awful, x is responsible for your problems, current dystopia, etc	emergent	-	many
directly compared utopia/dystopia	emergent	-	some
gentle resistance, self-care	expected	many	some
widely applicable, general solidarity, call to action, vague regime changes, not likely to be implemented by pinner	expected	many	many
image secondary to source /storing multi-modal content on image-first interface	emergent	-	some