ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the basic ways of exploring political graffiti and street art after having defined them, underlined their characteristics differences and similarities, and presented the main types, styles, and techniques. Graffitology explores concrete wall images of various social ideologies and the effect they produce on the activities of contemporary societies. The obsession of publicly posting photos of food in the social media of today is trendily called foodography. A camera is a much more objective, refined, contextual, and reliable means than any other recordings of reality, verbal, or textual. Graffiti is also given meaning by its political and cultural environment: it refers to actual happenings, questioning the structures of power in a society, and sticking its nose into social debates, dilemmas, and conflicts. The last site of meaning of graffiti is the site of audiencing. The history of graffitiing is full of funny anecdotes concerning wrong or tendentious readings of graffiti.
