Icons of protest in the visual cultures of news

• Recent scholarship on media witnessing, where street protest provides a clear example, has noted how images attain agency, ‘exceeding their frames’ as they call for an active response (Taylor 2003). This chapter addresses this phenomenon in a study of selected political protests, comparing their visual representations on screen in news coverage by four global television channels and in international award-winning press photographs. Is it possible to identify visual icons in this coverage, images that can be expected to shape how these events are remembered and that may reappear in future protests? Or has the photographic icon, as some scholars have suggested (Goldberg 1991), become a thing of the past?

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

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protest

icons

visual journalism

global news

journalistik

Journalism

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