TY - JOUR AU - Peck, Andrew M PY - 2013/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Non-Lethal Farce: "Pepper Spray Cop" Photoshopping as Visual Rhetoric JF - AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research JA - SPIR VL - 3 IS - 0 SE - Papers P DO - UR - https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/8763 SP - AB - This paper examines photoshopping as an important emerging genre of vernacular civic discourse on the Internet. By sharing digitally altered images (“photoshops”) across networks, users engage in a vernacular process that creates and participates in discourses concerning social knowledge, shared expectations, and shared values. To demonstrate this process, this paper analyzes how photoshopping was used as a response to the pepper spraying of a group of peaceful protesters on the University of California, Davis campus. Enabled by the affordances of networked communication, this paper argues that photoshopping represents a powerful new form of vernacular rhetoric for the digital age. ER -