What can photographs tell about political conflict?
New article by Rima Wilkes (senior associate researcher, LCSR) titled “Political Conflict Photographs and Their Keyword Texts” was published in “Journalism Studies”.
New article by Rima Wilkes (senior associate researcher, LCSR) titled “Political Conflict Photographs and Their Keyword Texts” was published in “Journalism Studies”.
* The journal “Journalism Studies” provides a forum for the critical discussion and study of journalism as both a subject of academic inquiry and an arena of professional practice. There are a variety of articles which address all aspects of journalism scholarship, journalism practice and journalism education.
The goal of Rima`s article is to consider how changes in the keywords used in the headlines and captions change the implied meaning of political conflict imagery. The author argues that changes in the text could prompt a visually crystallized and uniform reading of imagery or a visually pluralist and diverse reading of imagery. Analysing the headlines and captions that accompanied an iconic Canadian news photograph showing a Mohawk warrior and Canadian soldier staring at each other during the height of the 1990 “Oka Crisis” Rima found out that the keywords generally favoured the non-Indigenous side of the conflict. Moreover, there was a visual crystallization of the image's implied meaning over time.
The article can be found via the link below: