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Display-through-foregrounding by photojournalists as self-reflexivity in photojournalism: two case studies of accidental peace photojournalism

Mitra, Saumava orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-8622-7091 (2016) Display-through-foregrounding by photojournalists as self-reflexivity in photojournalism: two case studies of accidental peace photojournalism. Conflict and Communication Online, 15 (2). ISSN 1618-0747

Abstract
This article explores media self-reflexivity as understood within Peace Journalism (PJ) in the case of photojournalists and photojournalism. Carrying forward the discussion started by Allan (2011) for research into ‘peace photography’ to be extended to ‘tacit, unspoken rules’ underlying photojournalistic images, the article shows, through two examples of mainstream news images, how photojournalists can and may break from diktats of ‘news values’ to advertently or inadvertently critique the myths of the very practice they function within. Such self-reflexive, synecdochic images which display media’s own role in covering conflict are examples from which PJ can take lessons for a new visual grammar where visual peace journalism is understood to not only ‘expose the untruths’ behind propaganda but also expose the truths behind how such propaganda is reified by the media.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Conflict
Subjects:Social Sciences > Journalism
Social Sciences > Mass media
Social Sciences > Identity
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Communications
Publisher:Verlag Irena Regener
Official URL:https://regener-online.de/journalcco/2016_2/pdf/mi...
Copyright Information:© 2016 Verlag Irena Regener
ID Code:28534
Deposited On:30 Jun 2023 10:24 by Saumava Mitra . Last Modified 30 Jun 2023 10:24
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