The Visual Citizen in a Digital News Landscape

Allan, Stuart; Peters, Chris

doi:10.1093/ct/qtz028

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“…The accompanying text of the IRA's advertisements revealed story information, condemned police violence, and in many cases sought to humanize Black victims of police brutality. Furthermore, the empathic visual design of the IRA's ads that shared real news stories largely mirrored how activists, citizen journalists, and digital news outlets share information (Allan & Peters, 2020; Freelon et al, 2016). In other words, the empathic voice of the IRA's advertisements was consistent with the digital ecosystem it penetrated.…”

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confidence: 99%

Hacking Culture Not Code: How American Racism Fuels Russia's Century-Long Memetic Disinformation Campaign

Bhusari

Vasudevan

Nasrin

2022

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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This study develops upon recent scholarship about the Russian government's digital influence campaign to cultivate Black Americans during the 2016 election by rooting their efforts within a century-long strategy to exploit racial inequality to discredit and damage American democracy. Guided by Shifman’s (2013) construct of memetics, we employed a novel methodology that combined journalistic fact-checking and critical, qualitative analysis to study 164 Facebook advertisements targeted at Black Americans. These advertisements closely resembled Soviet-era propaganda and new disinformation strategies facilitated by the affordances of Facebook. Our findings reveal the advertisements exploited Facebook's interactive design and used an insider's voice to share real news about racial inequality, celebrate Black culture, and coordinate civic action. This study's methodological approach provides a meaningful framework for understanding how actors hack and deploy cultural knowledge to spread disinformation through social media platforms.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hacking Culture Not Code: How American Racism Fuels Russia's Century-Long Memetic Disinformation Campaign

Bhusari

Vasudevan

Nasrin

2022

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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“…Students can be informed of the real happenings in the society and instill in their mind a general understanding of the failures, progress, hopes, and desires of the nation. Allan and Peters (2020) recognized the varying degree of visual metalanguage purveyed in political cartoons, GIFs, memes, images, and video remixes in the media. These materials create a phenomenon by situating the problem within the context of a person's daily life and, in this way, utilize universal values as a means for the readers to identify the image and their intended message.…”

Section: International Journal Of Research Studies In Education 43mentioning

confidence: 99%

Looking at the bigger picture: A semiotic analysis on online news photographs

Moldez¹,

Gomez²

2022

IJRSE

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This study aimed to establish that online news photographs were dependent on language, using visual literacy. Semiotic analysis was utilized to determine the semiotic features present on the fifteen selected online news photographs. Also, a phenomenological approach was employed to highlight the information gathered on how students' understanding of online news photographs affects their personal viewpoints regarding issues in society and how semiotic features of online news photographs aid on visual literacy of students. The participants of the study were the fourteen (14) Grade 12 high school students in Maco North District, Division of Davao de Oro. There were seven participants for the in-depth interview (IDI) and seven participants for focus group discussion (FGD). This study obtained significant information that helped derive the semiotic features of photos based on their signifier, signified, denotative meaning, connotative meaning, and myth. Moreover, the study aided the understanding of students' viewpoints on issues in our society such as personal concerns, public awareness, clarity of message, stewards of the importance of news, sociological imagination, and civic action. Finally, participants shared how semiotic features aid their visual literacy, such as offering visual metalanguage, expressing emotions, and conveying messages.

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“…Emerging journalism mechanisms and resources embraced by citizens via the Internet happening worldwide, particularly young people, indicate efforts to absorb the inadequacy of traditional media and to increase the chance for citizen journalists to respond more and take action based on their life experiences to resolve current gaps (Balaraman & Ibrahim, 2013;Lim, 2013). Personal communication technology and its related networks allow an increasing number of people to serve as citizen journalists (Kaufhold, Valenzuela, & De Zúñiga, 2010;Allan & Peters, 2020). People are moving dramatically from being just recipients of journalism to being contributors (Boczkowski & Peer, 2011;Bruns, Highfield, & Lind, 2012).…”

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Choosing to Become a Citizen Journalist: The Experiences of Malaysian Youth

Mahamed¹

2022

JSS

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Online citizen journalism is turning from a reader to a writer to share their opinion on some topics that occur in the media. Some even dedicate their time to writing and addressing issues as citizen journalist even though most of this group of citizen journalists are not receiving any payments for their contributions. This study thus aims to investigate the motivation that leads to Malaysia's young citizen journalists' decision in becoming a citizen journalist. Qualitative enquiry using a phenomenology approach was selected. An in-depth interview with 14 informants participated in in-depth interviews. Atlas.ti 8 was used to analyze data of emerging themes. Three themes associated with past experiences emerged, which are action, people and event. Findings emerged young citizen journalism in Malaysia decide to get involved in citizen journalist due to the self-esteem they develop in performing specific actions or activities, encouragements, support and nurturing from their parents and surrounding coupled with circumstances of events they encounter. This implies development of a deeper understanding of the trend of local citizen journalism by taking into account the motivation that nurtures the citizen journalist's decision to venture in journalism practices. Thus, future actions should also be given on the aspect of teaching and educating the younger generation on journalism ethics at an early age.

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The Visual Citizen in a Digital News Landscape

Cited by 7 publications

References 54 publications

Hacking Culture Not Code: How American Racism Fuels Russia's Century-Long Memetic Disinformation Campaign

Hacking Culture Not Code: How American Racism Fuels Russia's Century-Long Memetic Disinformation Campaign

Looking at the bigger picture: A semiotic analysis on online news photographs

Choosing to Become a Citizen Journalist: The Experiences of Malaysian Youth

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