Competing narratives in framing disability in the UK media: a comparative analysis of journalistic representations of facial disfigurement versus practices of self-representations online

Garrisi, Diana; Johanssen, Jacob

doi:10.18573/jomec.172

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“…The study of competing narratives in framing disability in the UK media, published by Garrisi and Johanssen (2018), compared and contrasted the journalistic coverage of the story of a beauty blogger with facial disfigurement with her blog by using discourse analysis. In the context of disability-related problems, this study aimed to investigate the logic of the Network news and even more optimistic ways to portray disability can be created by online platforms.…”

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Representation of people with special needs in UAE newspapers: gulf news and Khaleej Times as a case study

Emam,

Bouri,

Soliman

et al. 2020

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This study investigates how people with special needs are represented in UAE's national newspapers, Gulf News, and Khaleej Times. 80 randomly selected news reports were analyzed using a qualitative content analysis method. Using the media framing theory, the reports were analyzed according to the following frames: illness, support, burden, empathy, and empowerment. The findings revealed that people with special needs are represented positively in both newspapers since the empathy and empowerment frames were the most present in the news reports examined. The coverage tends to enhance the public awareness of people with special needs, assimilate people with special needs into society, and endorse their social communities' participation.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representation of people with special needs in UAE newspapers: gulf news and Khaleej Times as a case study

Emam,

Bouri,

Soliman

et al. 2020

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“…It was thus hoped that through their narratives discursive attempts could emerge that illustrate affective experiences. Seven individuals were interviewed and, coincidentally, all presented a very professional use of social media which was aimed at raising awareness of facial disfigurements, at disrupting stereotypes and engaging with the wider public (Garrisi & Johanssen, 2018;Johanssen & Garrisi, 2017). From the outset, one could describe such forms of social media use as a kind of campaigning, or professionalised labour with specific goals in mind.…”

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Towards a Psychoanalytic Concept of Affective-Digital Labour

Johanssen

2018

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This article draws on the argument that users on corporate social media conduct labour through the sharing of user-generated content. Critical political economists argue that such acts contribute to value creation on social media and are therefore to be seen as labour. Following a brief introduction of this paradigm, I relate it to the notion of affective labour which has been popularised by the Marxist thinkers Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. To them, affective labour (as a sub-category of immaterial labour) denotes embodied forms of labour that are about passion, well-being, feelings of ease, immaterial products and generally a kind of communicative relationality between individuals. I point to some problems with a lack of clarity in their conceptualisation of affective labour and argue that the Freudian model of affect can help in theorising affective labour further through a focus on social media. According to Freud, affect can be understood as a subjective, bodily experience which is in tension with the discursive and denotes a momentary feeling of bodily dispossession. In order to illustrate those points, I draw on some data from a research project which featured interviews with social media users who have facial disfigurements about their affective experiences online. The narratives attempt to turn embodied experiences into discourse.

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