Poster Analysis during Student Protests in Niš: A Case Study of the Instagram Profile Filfak Blokada

Abstract

This paper analyzes posters from the Instagram profile Filfak Blokada related to the student protests in Niš during 2024/2025. The goal is to identify the dominant function from the perspective of political communication and analyze the linguistic meansused to convey it. The corpus includes 17 posters collected from this profile between December 27 and February 6. The findings indicate that the predominant function is informational, while a notable number of posters also combine informative and persuasive elements, especially following significant events.