Choosing Graphic Visuals: How Picture Editors Incorporate Emotion and Personal Experience Into Decision Making

Peterson, April; Spratt, Meg

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“…Eyetracking studies show that readers enter a newspaper via the headlines and visuals (Garcia and Stark, 1991), with photographs being the most common point of entry (Mendelson and Thorson, 2004). Images help readers make sense of the news (Fahmy, 2005b) even if they do not read the accompanying text (Peterson and Spratt, 2005).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Visual coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War: Framing conflict in three US news magazines

Schwalbe

Dougherty²

2015

Media, War & Conflict

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The 2006 Lebanon War presented a rare opportunity to explore how the three major US news magazines visually covered a distant conflict in which the US was not directly involved. Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report faced the challenge of how to fairly report a conflict that was dominated by one side – Israel. A quantitative content analysis revealed that the military conflict and human interest frames dominated visual coverage of the seven-week war. By emphasizing the war’s negative impact on Lebanon and its people, the news magazines provided a largely American audience with a proportional visual representation of the conflict. Only 11 percent of the images showed the injured and dead, which is consistent with other war studies. This article discusses how the news magazines visually framed the war, why images of Hezbollah and protests were rarely seen, and why many casualty images included women and children.

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Visual coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War: Framing conflict in three US news magazines

Schwalbe

Dougherty²

2015

Media, War & Conflict

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“…The political rhetoric of claims-making requires successful public buy-in. Such affirmation and public acquiescence is generated, or sometimes propagated, by emphasising imagery, traumatic personal accounts or isolated data to reinforce proposed political decisions (Ibarra and Kitsuse, 1993; Peterson and Spratt, 2011). In the case of this research, the graphic and chilling photographs of the sharks’ teeth grasping its prey were used over and over again in media depictions to evoke fear and hostility in the imaginations of a concerned public seeking solutions and political leadership.…”

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The great white bite: A critique of the Western Australian government’s shark hazard mitigation drum line program

Couper

Walters

2020

Journal of Sociology

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The fatal shark bite of a scuba diver off the coast of Esperance in Western Australia in January 2020, followed in recent months by a further four fatalities in New South Wales and Queensland, has once again sparked debate about government policies to protect humans from potentially dangerous marine life. This debate is not new; during 2010–13 Western Australia experienced an unusually high level of human fatalities from shark bites. These events precipitated the introduction of the Western Australian Shark Hazard Mitigation Drum Line Program, a controversial and costly pre-emptive state government initiative that cost approximately $13.6 million for shark repellent responses, and the implementation of a Shark Response Unit. This research utilises official documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act 1989 (Cth), together with interviews with relevant stakeholders, media reports, and public submissions to critically examine the political antecedents of a costly and flawed shark hazard mitigation program. It also provides lessons for how governments construct problems and manage marine environments and protected species. It concludes, utilising the theory of claims-making, that shark bite increases in Western Australia was a media constructed social problem, used to convince the government that a catch-and-kill policy of an internationally protected species was necessary to avert a perceived economic downturn in tourism revenue and to appease an invented public outcry.

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Images in Ethics Codes in an Era of Violence and Tragedy

Keith¹,

Schwalbe²,

Silcock³

2006

Journal of Mass Media Ethics

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Choosing Graphic Visuals: How Picture Editors Incorporate Emotion and Personal Experience Into Decision Making

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Visual coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War: Framing conflict in three US news magazines

Visual coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War: Framing conflict in three US news magazines

The great white bite: A critique of the Western Australian government’s shark hazard mitigation drum line program

Images in Ethics Codes in an Era of Violence and Tragedy

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