Visual communication and public relations: Visual frame building strategies in war and conflict stories

Dhanesh, Ganga S.; Rahman, Nadia

doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.102003

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“…In line with the picture superiority theory, human beings are more likely to remember images than other types of descriptive information because their symbolic significance is greater than that of written words (Paivio, 2013). Furthermore, visuals can strongly affect an audience by triggering their emotions (Dixon, 2016), and influence stakeholder attitudes and engagement (Brubaker and Wilson, 2018;Dhanesh and Rahman, 2021). For example, the public opinion of Europeans towards accepting refugees migrating to Europe was heavily affected by a news photograph showing a drowned Syrian boy on a Turkish beach (Hellmueller and Zhang, 2019).…”

Section: The Use Of Visual Images For Managing Plastic Wastementioning

confidence: 95%

Combatting medical plastic waste through visual elicitation: Insights from healthcare professionals

Kong

Wei

et al. 2021

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Section: The Use Of Visual Images For Managing Plastic Wastementioning

confidence: 95%

Combatting medical plastic waste through visual elicitation: Insights from healthcare professionals

Kong

Wei

et al. 2021

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…In today's digitally networked world, witnessing and providing testimony to events such as armed conflicts is no longer exclusively tied to editorial decisions and newsroom resources. While the scholarly work on war and conflict on social media still largely focuses on news media and institutions and their use of platforms (Wall, 2010;Cowart et al, 2016;Parry, 2018;Crilley and Chatterje-Doody, 2020;Dhanesh and Rahman, 2021;McCrow-Young and Mortensen, 2021;Hedling et al, 2022), analyses of user-generated content have become increasingly prevalent (Andén-Papadopoulos, 2009Al-Ghazzi, 2014;Makhortykh and Sydorova, 2017).…”

Section: War Representations and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Remixing war: An analysis of the reimagination of the Russian–Ukraine war on TikTok

Primig

Szabó²,

Lacasa³

2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Interpretative struggles of global crises are increasingly being reflected on social media networks. TikTok is a relatively new social media platform that has achieved substantial popularity among young people in many parts of the world and is now being used to disseminate and make sense of information about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Through a user-centered sampling approach, we collected 62 TikTok videos and conducted an in-depth qualitative analysis of them and their uploading profiles to explore how the war was being represented on the platform. Our analysis revealed a strong prevalence of remixing practices among content creators; that is, they recontextualise images, sounds and embodied self-performance within the platform-specific affordances of trends. We found that distant suffering is mediated through the emotive online self-performance of content creators, cuing their audiences toward appropriate emotional responses. Trending sounds situate videos within a singular-motif and context-diverse environment, facilitating what we theorize as affective audio networks.

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“…BeReal, a new social media platform on which pictures cannot be filtered, has also gained popularity (Davis, 2022). These trends signal the need for more truthful self‐presentation or “genuineness,” defined as “the ability and willingness to be what one truly is” (Gelso & Carter, 1994, p. 297), and more specifically, “visual genuineness” in self‐presentation, as visuals become the dominant form of communication on social media (Dhanesh & Rahman, 2021). However, the impact of visual genuineness (vs. nongenuineness) is unclear.…”

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To be real or not to be real? The effect of genuine (vs. nongenuine) depictions of social media influencers on followers' well‐being and brand purchase intention

Claeys,

Charry,

Tessitore

2023

Psychology and Marketing

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Criticized for the idealized lives portrayed on social media (e.g., Instagram), a growing number of social media influencers are now embracing genuineness, showcasing unfiltered and less sophisticated pictures of themselves. The current research investigated this trend by examining how genuine (vs. nongenuine) visual self‐presentations by influencers affect their followers' purchase intention and, importantly, their well‐being. With an experiment (n = 171) and a quasi‐experiment with an ex‐post facto design (n = 154), we demonstrate that influencers' genuineness (vs. nongenuineness) not only benefits promoted brands but also followers' well‐being. Specifically, genuine (vs. nongenuine) influencers induce fewer upward comparisons, which, in turn, increases followers' self‐esteem, well‐being, and purchase intention. Investigating the role of gender, we show that, while males also tend to purchase more products when recommended by genuine (vs. nongenuine) male influencers, the mediating process through social comparison does not occur. Combining psychosocial and marketing perspectives, this study expands various streams of research on social media influencers and offers pragmatic contributions that reconcile managers, social media influencers, and public policymakers. More genuineness in pictures, using fewer filters and beauty artifices, provides benefits for all. Finally, we suggest future research directions as ways to further reconcile these two perspectives.

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Visual communication and public relations: Visual frame building strategies in war and conflict stories

Cited by 32 publications

References 71 publications

Combatting medical plastic waste through visual elicitation: Insights from healthcare professionals

Combatting medical plastic waste through visual elicitation: Insights from healthcare professionals

Remixing war: An analysis of the reimagination of the Russian–Ukraine war on TikTok

To be real or not to be real? The effect of genuine (vs. nongenuine) depictions of social media influencers on followers' well‐being and brand purchase intention

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