Maria Nilsson, Anne Hege Simonsen

Visual Journalism and Verification at War (eBook, PDF)

Norwegian and Swedish News Outlets Covering Ukraine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Considering the visual coverage of the war in Ukraine, this book provides critical insights into how newsrooms make use of visual materials, how visuals partake in journalistic storytelling in a modern wartime context, and how visual journalism practices affect the news media's role as arbiter of accuracy and ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040357101
• Artikelnr.: 73513190

Autorenporträt

Maria Nilsson is Professor of Journalism in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests include visual storytelling, newsroom routines, the ethics of witnessing, visual representations of crises, and the history of photography. Her current research focuses on visual verification practices and disinformation and the truth claims of journalism in crisis coverage.

Anne Hege Simonsen is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Her research interests include visual journalism, global and international reporting, climate crisis and environment coverage, media and minorities, physical walls and boundaries, and non-fiction writing. She has written, edited, and contributed to several text books in journalism for the Norwegian market.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figues
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Disrupting the boundaries of photojournalism at war
A background to the full¿scale invasion
Previous research on the war in Ukraine
Photojournalism at war, witnessing and visual meaning-making
Visual verification, trust and truth
Our empirical study
Empirical focus
Methods
Chapter outline
Funding and approvals
A note on our collaboration
2. Bridges and flows
Witnessing, networks and flows
Witnessing outbreak: Time, space and production in the field
Summary: random and deliberate coverage
Witnessing atrocities: the cases of Bucha and Borodyanka
Witnessing through tropes and conventions: Commemorating the invasion
Chapter summary: Witnessing through bridges and flows
3. The war next door: The perspectives of editors and photojournalists
Being there
The gap between seeing and showing
Safety, bias and trust
Chapter summary: About the coverage of the war next door
4. Truth, trust (and everything in between)
A hierarchy of trust
Skilling up (digital forensics)
Chapter summary: Fact-checking as a new genre
5. Reflections on the Norwegian and Swedish visual coverage of the war in
Ukraine
References
Index