A visual framing analysis of British press photography during the 2006 Israel- Lebanon conflict

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy Parry
Keyword(s):  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
British Press

Images of liberation? Visual framing, humanitarianism and British press photography during the 2003 Iraq invasion

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1185-1201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy Parry
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
British Press ◽  
Visual Coverage

Although the 2003 Iraq invasion was not wholly framed as a ‘humanitarian intervention’, the rhetoric of bringing liberation, democratization and human rights to the Iraqi people was widely advanced by the coalition and supporters as a legitimating reason for war. This article assesses the role played by press photography in legitimizing or challenging this crucial framing during the invasion across a range of UK national newspapers. Privileging visual content in research design, the study presents selected results from a comprehensive content and framing analysis of press photography during the invasion period (March–April 2003), specifically examining the prominence and treatment of photographs in the humanitarian-related visual coverage, along with the accompanying words used to define, support or detract from the events depicted. While finding that the rationale of humanitarianism generally played well for the coalition during this study period, this article explores the problematic nature of the narrative of liberation.

scholarly journals The discursive construction of Romanian immigration in the British media: Digitized press vs. Television documentaries

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Florentina Cheregi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Television Use ◽  
The Media ◽  
British Press ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Guardian

<p>This paper looks at how the media – particularly the British press and television – frames the issue of Romanian immigrants in Great Britain, in the context of the freedom of movement for workers in the European Union. The study focuses on the frames employed by the British journalists in constructing anti-immigration discourses in the digital and the TV sphere, comparatively. This study analyzes the stereotypes about Romanian people used in two British media formats and the way in which they affect Romania’s country image overseas. Using a mixed research approach, combining framing analysis (Entman, 1993) with critical discourse analysis (Van Dijk, 1993), and dispositif analysis (Charaudeau, 2005) this article investigates 271 news items from three of the most read newspapers in the UK (The Guardian, Daily Mail and The Independent), published online during January 2013 – March 2014. Also, the paper analyzes three film documentaries from BBC (Panorama – The Romanians are Coming? – BBC1, The Truth About Immigration – BBC2 and The Great Big Romanian invasion – BBC World News). The analysis shows that the British press and television use both similar and different frames to coverage Romanian migrants. The media also infer the polarization between “Us” (the British media) and “Them” (the Romanian citizens).</p>

scholarly journals Digital civic activism in Romania: Framing anti-Chevron online protest community «faces»

Comunicar ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (47) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camelia Cmeciu ◽  
Cristina Coman
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
On Line ◽  
Action Frame ◽  
Land Struggle ◽  
Comparative Content ◽  
Resistance Movement

This article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of two Romanian Facebook communities' self-presentations during the online and offline anti-fracking protests in Romania. In 2013 Romanians started to protest against the gas exploration of the US giant Chevron in the village of Punge?ti. The online and offline Punge?ti Resistance Movement turned within one month from a rural to a national mobilization tool meant to help the Romanian peasants affected by the proposed shale gas exploration operations of Chevron. Since the online engagement desired to finally turn into an offline participation is highly dependent on the informing practice, we consider that a framing analysis of the Facebook posts will reflect whether they are culturally compatible and relevant for the protesters. Using the framing theory in social movements as our theoretical background, we provided a comparative content analysis of two Romanian Facebook communities' postings (October, 2013 - February, 2014). We focused on identifying the verbal and visual framing devices and the main collective action frames used for the shaping of the online communities' collective identity. The findings revealed a dominance of «land struggle» as a collective action frame followed by «conflict» and «solidarity» and a salience of photos and video files used as framing devices of cultural relevance for Romanian protesters and of evidence of offline anti-fracking activism in Romania. Este artículo presenta los resultados del análisis cuantitativo de las auto-representaciones de dos comunidades rumanas en Facebook durante las protestas on-line y off-line en contra del «fracking» en Rumanía. En 2013 los rumanos comenzaron a protestar contra las explotaciones de gas del gigante energético norteamericano Chevron en la aldea de Pungesti. Este movimiento de resistencia pasó, en poco más de un mes, de ser una herramienta de movilización rural a una de alcance nacional cuyo objetivo era ayudar a los campesinos afectados por las explotaciones de gas planificadas por Chevron. Dado que el óptimo grado de implicación on-line para pasar a una participación off-line depende mucho de las prácticas informativas, consideramos que un análisis de textos publicados en Facebook reflejará si éstos son compatibles y relevantes para los manifestantes. Nuestra premisa teórica está basada en la teoría del encuadre en movimientos sociales e informa nuestro análisis de contenido comparativo de los textos de dos comunidades rumanas de Facebook desde octubre de 2013 hasta febrero de 2014. En el trabajo se identifican las estrategias de encuadre verbal y visual, y los marcos de acción colectiva utilizados para formar la identidad de estas comunidades on-line. Los resultados obtenidos muestran el predominio de «la lucha por la tierra» como principal marco de acción colectiva, seguido del «conflicto» y la «solidaridad», e indican la preeminencia de fotos y archivos de vídeo como recursos de encuadre de relevancia cultural y como pruebas del activismo fuera de Internet en contra del «fracking» en Rumanía.

Facebook Photographic Images

2016 ◽  
pp. 229-252
Author(s):  
Camelia Cmeciu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
European Parliament Elections

“Act, react, impact” was the slogan of the 2014 European Parliament elections. A social media campaign focused on a solid informing practice may constitute the first step in attaining European citizens' actions and reactions. This chapter explores the visual Facebook presence of winning and losing Romanian candidates who stood for the 2014 EP elections. The visual framing analysis shows that the Romanian winning politicians preferred to visually promote themselves as statesmanlike candidates being surrounded by national influentials or by campaign entourage whereas the losing candidate framed themselves either as populist campaigners in the middle of larger audiences or as compassionate candidates interacting with individuals. The analysis of the visual categories highlights that both winning and losing EP candidates in Romania used a hybrid message. Despite the attempt to provide a visual presentation of European campaign paraphernalia, national identity features rendered through religious symbols and traditional elements prevailed.

scholarly journals Intersections of ISIS media leader loss and media campaign strategy: A visual framing analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 175063521988937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Winkler ◽  
Kareem El-Damanhoury ◽  
Zainab Saleh ◽  
John Hendry ◽  
Nagham El-Karhili
Keyword(s):  
Media Framing ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Organizational Hierarchy ◽  
Campaign Strategy ◽  
Framing Strategies ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
Leader Roles ◽  
The Media ◽  
Over Time

The decision to target leaders of groups like ISIS to hamper their effectiveness has served as a longstanding principle of counterterrorism efforts. Yet, previous research suggests that any results may simply be temporary. Using insights from confiscated ISIS documents from Afghanistan to define the media leader roles that qualified for each level of the cascade, CTC (Combating Terrorism Center) records to identify media leaders who died, and a content analysis of all ISIS images displayed in the group’s Arabic weekly newsletter to identify the group’s visual framing strategies, this study assesses whether and how leader loss helps explain changes in the level and nature of the group’s visual output over time. ISIS’s quantity of output and visual framing strategies displayed significant changes before, during, and after media leader losses. The level of the killed leader within the group’s organizational hierarchy also corresponded to different changes in ISIS’s media framing.

scholarly journals Visualising the politics of appearance in times of democratisation: An analysis of the 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade television coverage

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Krstić ◽  
Katy Parry ◽  
Giorgia Aiello
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Visual Framing ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
Television Coverage ◽  
The City ◽  
Right Wing Extremism

The 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade represents a critical moment in the story of Serbia’s democratisation process and highlights the threat that right-wing extremism poses to democratic rights and personal freedoms. Through a focus on patterns of visibility and visuality in the coverage of different protagonists in the streets of Belgrade, we explore the ways in which distinct communities perform their affinities, their right to be seen in public spaces, and rejection of ‘the other’. We conduct a visual framing analysis across four news programmes (RTS, Prva TV, TV B92 and Pink TV), emphasising the stylistic-semiotic choices which work to construct the contested spaces of the city. In shifting attention to how the news images work to create the spaces of political ‘appearance’ and the potentials for political agency through mediated visibility, the article explores the uneasy ambivalence of the democratisation process for authorities and the resulting marginalisation of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in news coverage.

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