Visual Agenda-Setting After 9/11: Individuals' Emotions, Image Recall, and Concern With Terrorism

Fahmy, Shahira; Cho, Sooyoung; Wanta, Wayne; Song, Yonghoi

doi:10.1207/s15551407vcq1301_2

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“…The research task is now to determine why some people seem primed to adopt certain political attitudes, whereas others appear primed to adopt quite different attitudes. For example, although images and reminders of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, produce an aggregate shift in political views (9,10), the reasons for individual variability in the degree of attitudinal shifts are unknown.…”

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Political Attitudes Vary with Physiological Traits

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Although political views have been thought to arise largely from individuals' experiences, recent research suggests that they may have a biological basis. We present evidence that variations in political attitudes correlate with physiological traits. In a group of 46 adult participants with strong political beliefs, individuals with measurably lower physical sensitivities to sudden noises and threatening visual images were more likely to support foreign aid, liberal immigration policies, pacifism, and gun control, whereas individuals displaying measurably higher physiological reactions to those same stimuli were more likely to favor defense spending, capital punishment, patriotism, and the Iraq War. Thus, the degree to which individuals are physiologically responsive to threat appears to indicate the degree to which they advocate policies that protect the existing social structure from both external (outgroup) and internal (norm-violator) threats.

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Political Attitudes Vary with Physiological Traits

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Alford

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“…While some scholars have investigated the role of images in gatekeeping and agenda-setting, their work tends to focus on audience effects (Fahmy et al 2006;Wanta 1988). A few researchers have examined processes of visual gatekeeping and the impact of pool coverage, equipment and editing, but compared with text-based inquiry, visual process studies are rare (Bissel 2000;Bock 2009;Yaschur-Haslinger 2012).…”

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Mastering the Mug Shot

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This project uses a case study of an elected official's booking mug shot to examine the way political actors engage in embodied performance to maintain their image in visual media. Mug shots are images that are ostensibly equalizing and represent a long-standing link between law enforcement, journalism and visual culture. Released through the "gates" of law enforcement, they are imbued with a connotation of guilt even though they are created prior to a person's conviction. Using mixed methods, including textual analysis, field observations and interviews, this case study examined the way journalists covered the mugshot booking of former Texas Governor Rick Perry. The event was widely proclaimed a victory rather than a ritual of shame. The study suggests that the governor and his staff engaged in embodied gatekeeping by orchestrating the events leading up to his booking photo which impeded journalists in their effort to independently control their narratives.

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“…Research on photographs tends to focus on dramatic and tragic images of war, death and mass protests (Fahmy 2005(Fahmy , 2007Fahmy et al 2006;Fahmy and Kim 2008;Perlmutter 1998 between themes framing and (3) emotionally charged (measured by the match between evaluations traced in the textual and visual images).…”

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