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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-
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Drone journalism : The invisibility of the aerial view
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 9781000786002 - 9781032005850 ; , s. 217-226
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter presents a brief timeline of the emergence of drones as a journalistic tool, discusses barriers and challenges to their use and explores key aspects of the roles of drones and aerial imagery in the current media landscape. The drones used in journalism and media production are basically mini-helicopters with multiple rotors that are equipped with cameras. A key property is that they are unmanned and can be piloted remotely, which makes it possible to shoot still images and video from a distance. Photojournalists started experimenting with mounting cameras on remotely controlled flying multi-copters at the beginning of the 21st century. The quick development of drone journalism has also led to more skeptical assessments. A critique has been that although drones increase the use of aerial shots significantly, many times the drone aerials are used as non-essential complementary visuals, which provide context but not content to the news story.
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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-, et al.
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Gateway Visuals : Strategies of Climate Photographers in the Digital Age
- 2023
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Ingår i: Visual Communication Quarterly. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1087-2523. ; 30:4, s. 221-233
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Visual climate change communication has seen increased scholarly attention in recent years, with a strong focus on science communication. However, less is known about the producers of climate imagery. The current article presents results from interviews with 20 photographers engaged in climate change on the challenges they see for climate photography today and the key strategies they use to achieve reach and impact in the digital media environment. Results indicate that practitioners gravitate toward variations of a “gateway strategy,” in which motives and forms of visual presentation are chosen as gateways to bypass the potential resistance or indifference to climate change messages. The article proposes a typology of such visual gateway strategies.
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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-, et al.
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Journalism from above : Drones and the Media in Critical Perspective
- 2020
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Ingår i: Media and Communication. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-2439. ; 8:3, s. 60-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the last decade, the development of small, remotely operated multicopters with cameras, so-called drones, has made aerial photography easily available. Consumers and institutions now use drones in a variety of ways, both for personal entertainment and professionally. The application of drones in media production and journalism is of particular interest, as it provides insight into the complex interplay between technology, the economic and legal constraints of the media market, professional cultures and audience preferences. The thematic issue Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice presents new research concerning the role of drones in journalism and media production. The issue brings together scholars representing a variety of approaches and perspectives. A broad selection of empirical cases from Finland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US form the basis of an exploration of the changing relations between the media, technology and society. The articles address topics such as: Adaption of drone technology in the newsrooms; audience preferences and reactions in a changing media landscape; the relation between journalists and public authorities who use drones; and attitudes from journalistic practitioners as well as historical and future perspectives.
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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-, et al.
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Northern landscapes with a story : The affordances of the aerial view in environmental photography
- 2023
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Ingår i: Disturbed ecologies. - Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag. - 9783837660265 ; , s. 143-167
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the context of an environmental crisis, photography and its related practices can be part of an emancipatory project, challenging techno-utopian solutions and envisioning alternative possibilities for sustaining life on this planet. This anthology critically addresses the geopolitics of environmental devastation from the perspective of photographers, artists, curators and theorists. The contributors engage with recent debates about the Anthropocene and the need to identify the socioeconomic and political causes of climate change. The essays question the validity of images within which ecological crisis is seen as the consequence of undifferentiated human activity.
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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-, et al.
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Northern landscapes with a story : The affordances of the aerial view in environmental photography
- 2023
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Ingår i: Disturbed Ecologies. - Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag. - 9783839460269 ; , s. 143-168
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The imaginaries of northern landscape have not remained static in the era of ecological crisis but play a pivotal function within the geopolitics of visual representation. Such imaginaries can sanction those dominant discourses that frame environmental catastrophe as the consequence of undifferentiated human activity, but, it is argued, they also have the capacity to represent a complexity and heterogeneity frequently absent from this broad discursive field. The contributors to this volume engage with the practice, curation and utilization of photography and other lens-based media, to examine the critical role of visual culture in shaping and interrogating conceptions of environmental catastrophe.
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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-
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Post-Hype Uses of Drones in News Reporting : Revealing the Site and Presenting Scope
- 2020
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Ingår i: Media and Communication. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-2439. ; 8:3, s. 85-92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Camera-equipped drones have emerged as an increasingly commonplace tool for media to acquire aerial imagery. Previous research has mainly focused on the innovative aspects and creative potential of the technology. This article argues that early optimistic projections reflected a novelty effect, typical of a culturally embedded idea that new and better technologies continuously replace older ones. Using a historical theory which distinguishes techno-optimistic innovation discourse from actual observations of technology in use, photojournalists were interviewed on the role of drones in news reporting. The results show that the practitioners historicise drones, relating them to previous aerial technologies, and they reflect on current and future uses of drones in journalism based on a notion of phases, where early hype gives way to subsequent drone fatigue. Drones are seen by many as a more convenient tool to do things that journalism has done before, but the convenience increases the use of aerial imagery. The results also show that, although photojournalists see a wide range of potential uses, there are also limitations, including the ideals of the invisible observer, safety concerns, and the perils of over-aesthetic imagery. The post-hype uses of drone photography were summarized in two categories: (a) revealing the site, establishing 'this happened here' and (b) presenting scope, or showing how vast or large something is.
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- Lindblom, Terje
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Bakom bilderna : Bildjournalister och bildjournalistik i ett marknadsorienterat journalistiskt fält
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The restructuring of Swedish newspapers due to technological and economic changes in the last decade has hit journalists, and especially photojournalists, very hard. In 2017, Sweden's 165 daily newspapers only employed a total of 60 photojournalists combined, with 70 newspapers left with no photojournalist on staff at all. However, during the same time period the use of images in Swedish newspapers increased.Using Bourdieu’s field theory, the purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the positions of photojournalism and photojournalists in the Swedish journalistic field during a crucial and important time for the media industry, through 40 interviews with respondents in swedish newspaper as well as with freelancers in the field. The actors varied in age, gender and number of years in the field, and most importantly through different amounts of symbolic capital, in accordance with Bourdieu’s theory.The study shows that Swedish photojournalists’ ideal was to document the world and produce in-depth visual news stories. However, these time-consuming ideals comes into conflict with emerging market-oriented ideals described by other actors in the Swedish journalistic field. This also meant that although photojournalism itself is described as having an increased importance in the field, the photojournalists hadn’t received a correspondingly higher status. The study concludes that the commercial importance of photojournalism to the market-oriented journalistic field, as described by actors in the field, shows how it has become a professional boundary object which in turn exposes an on-going professional boundary work and symbolic power struggles between, on the one side, media managers, reporters and multi-skilled journalists and on the other side, photojournalists, concerning the doxa and ethos of photojournalism which in turn is affecting the professional position of photojournalists in the Swedish journalistic field.
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- Ödmark, Sara
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Jester, journalist, or just jerk? The roles of political comedians in societal debate
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Where does the political comedian fit on the spectrum of societal debate? Comedy has gained legitimacy in academia in recent decades as a non-serious communication form worth taking seriously. But in the personalized, high-choice hybrid media landscape, what roles do comedians inhabit? This dissertation explores this topic via five studies detailed in articles produced for publication in scientific journals. The articles employ frameworks such as humor functions, role conceptions, media framing, boundary work, non-deliberative media discourse, and moral theory, and utilize qualitative content analysis, quantitative content analysis, and qualitative interviews, to investigate empirical examples collected from Swedish and Finnish contexts. The dissertation also includes an introductory chapter that summarizes and discusses the results of the five studies and presents the empirical and theoretical contributions of the dissertation. Several roles of political comedians are introduced, based on political intent and their tendency to challenge norms, where the main ones have been established as Unifier, Advocate, Entertainer, Explainer, Provocateur, Questioner, and Eye-opener. The roles should be seen as role performance elements that are somewhat fluid and contextual. In addition, three role clusters, or broad comedic dispositions, are discussed. The first is the jester-type comedian, represented by the Entertainer, the Unifier, and the Advocate. These comedians are practitioners of a more benign, light-hearted form of political comedy, and they focus on creating mirth and social bonding. The genre of journalistic news satire is defined and explored as the second role cluster, and the genre is represented by the Unifier, who aims to connect people in laughter, the Explainer, who wants to explain complex news issues from a specific point of view, and the Questioner, who audits power and challenges groupthink. Finally, the third role cluster is personified by the troublemaker or jerk, who either enjoys being a Provocateur simply for provocation itself, takes on the role of persistent Questioner, or, if the political intent is stronger, embodies the Eye-opener, aspiring to influence the audience to see things differently.Contexts, implications, and limitations are discussed.
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