1st Edition

Visual War Journalism Mediations of Conflict Imagery in a Digital Age

Edited By Stuart Allan Copyright 2027
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

This volume showcases how visual war journalism has emerged as a critical framework in digital journalism studies, portraying how it can enrich our understanding of news imagery in the contexts of ongoing wars, conflicts and crises. Examinations of global newscapes recurrently bring to light incidents where visual war journalists are working in harm’s way, striving to record what they see... Read more

Visual War Journalism: An Introduction

Stuart Allan

 

1. How Does It Look from Where You Are? A Visual Media Framing Analysis of the 2022 War in Ukraine

Anna Young and Foluke Omosun

 

2. Post-Photojournalism: Post-Truth Challenges and Threats for Visual Reporting in the Russo Ukrainian War Coverage

Carolina Fernández-Castrillo and Celia Ramos

 

3. The War in Ukraine Through the Prism of Visual Disinformation and the Limits of Specialized Fact-checking. A Case-study at Le Monde

Pauline Zecchinon and Olivier Standaert

 

4. Spatiotemporal Unfixing, Image-Flow & Palinode in Photography of the Ukraine War

Jennifer Good

 

5. Viewer Preferences for Publication of Graphic Images of War

Keith Greenwood, Lisa Krantz and Cory MacNeil

 

6. Forensic Architecture and the Aesthetics of Post-Human Testimony

Francesca Romeo

 

7. The Image War Moves to TikTok Evidence from the May 2021 Round of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Moran Yarchi and Lilian Boxman-Shabtai

 

8. TikToking the Israel-Gaza War: A Content Analysis of Peace and War Narratives in Audiovisual News

Shahira S. Fahmy, Laila Abbas and Aliaa K. ElShabassy

 

9. Mediated Clash of Civilizations: Examining the Proximity-Visual Framing Nexus in Al Jazeera Arabic and Fox News’ Coverage of the 2021 Gaza War

Kareem El Damanhoury & Faisal Saleh

 

10. Picturing Protest: Visual Framing in Authoritarian Media on Twitter

Wei Zhong, Bin Chen, and Fan Liang and Maggie Mengqing Zhang

 

11. Protest Paradigm Revisited: Is Depicting Protestors’ (Counter)Violence Really Bad?

Afrooz Mosallaei

 

Biography

Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism and Communication in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. Much of his research revolves around the visual dimensions of war, conflict and crisis reporting, including both professional photojournalism and citizen witnessing.