Mediatized Conflict and Visual News Framing

The Syrian conflict has challenged both the ways of reporting war and its impact on the public. However, only a few empirical studies have tried to assess public reactions to representations of war. In this paper, we use an empirically-based study that combines quantitative and qualitative methods t...

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Published in:Middle East journal of culture and communication 2017, Vol.10 (2-3), p.204-233
Main Authors: Sacco, Vittoria, Gorin, Valérie
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The Syrian conflict has challenged both the ways of reporting war and its impact on the public. However, only a few empirical studies have tried to assess public reactions to representations of war. In this paper, we use an empirically-based study that combines quantitative and qualitative methods to assess how Swiss audiences react to crisis reporting and visual news framing in French-speaking Swiss media. The study offers a preliminary understanding of how people react to images in the media, especially with respect to military and political contexts, and also builds a visual map of how audiences process information contained in news images of war.
ISSN:1873-9857
1873-9865
1873-9857
DOI:10.1163/18739865-01002007