The Media Use of Diaspora in a Conflict Situation: A Case Study of Venezuelans in Finland

Salojärvi, Virpi

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“…Furthermore, it has been assumed by Venezuelan communities in Canada that the crisis in their country and its economic implications are rarely featured in Canadian media (Lowrie, 2017). In this context, authors such as Salojärvi (2017) claim that Venezuelans in the diaspora have found alternative media platforms, including websites, ethnic and diasporic media, and collaborative spaces for representation, portrayal, and discussion of the crisis.…”

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“…Press coverage and media discourses on international crises have been the focus of a wide range of research in the communications and social sciences fields. Both elements have been considered crucial components with regard to the audiences' perceptions and interpretations of international conflicts and the migration phenomena associated with them (Karim & Al-Rawi, 2018;Mathhes, Maurer, & Arendt, 2017;Salojärvi, 2017).…”

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“…Along with family remittances, diasporic media are considered an important part of the "transnational reality" of many communities in North America and Europe, especially with regard to their ability to reenact cultural practices and sociopolitical activities of the diaspora. Salojärvi (2017) stated that the fact that immigrants often spread across borders to the country of origin, diasporic media can function "as a messenger, transmitting and fashioning the information" (p. 6). Moreover, Dufoix and Rodarmor (2008) used the term "temporal proximity" in reference to the connection between the diasporas, the diasporic media, and the countries of origin, which essentially refers to diasporic media's capacity to establish a connected intimacy with the homeland despite being far away (pp.…”

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“…On the other hand, extensive research has focused on the relationship between diasporic media and the dynamics of integration in the host country (Chama, 2015;Gilboa et al, 2016;Karim & Al -Rawi, 2018;Ogunyemi, 2017;Salojärvi, 2017). In this context, the influence of diasporic media on the conformation and/or strengthening of diasporic communities has been analyzed through the notion of "imagined communities" proposed by Benedict Anderson (1991), giving a new perspective to media, diaspora, and the concept of nation, nationhood, and community (Dufoix & Rodarmor, 2008).…”

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Framing international crises: a comparative content analysis of media texts on the collapse of Venezuela

Olinto¹

2021

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This research explores mainstream and diasporic media coverage and discourses surrounding the Venezuelan economic and political crisis from late March 2017 until early May 2018. A comparative content analysis was applied to a total of 256 news articles, editorials, and stories from the Toronto Star, one of Canada’s largest newspapers, and from La Portada Canadá, a Spanish-language Latin American newspaper in Toronto. The results demonstrated diasporic media’s appropriation of journalistic biases such as human impact, dramatization, and national interests and the reframing of dominant discourses from international news agencies about the Venezuelan crisis. Whereas there are significant similarities between both media’s content regarding the crisis, La Portada Canadá stressed the transnational component of the Venezuelan diaspora through discourses about political and civic engagement in Canada. The Toronto Star focused more on the economic and political components of the crisis, which are closely linked to the country’s national agenda. Keywords: diasporic media, mainstream media, media coverage, media discourses, international crises, humanitarian crisis, Venezuela, Toronto

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2021

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“…The disadvantage is that the interpretation may vary between different viewers. To avoid this problem, the approach of using online environments was put in broader context via 22 semi-structured, themed interviews with anti-governmental Venezuelan societal actors, who form part of the primary audience for the protest images (see Salojärvi, 2017), and two interviews with photographers documenting the protests conducted via email. The face-to-face interviews were conducted in Greater Miami, Florida, between December 2017 and June 2018, and their purpose was to give insights into the cultural and political understanding of the demonstrations and the overall conflict.…”

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Faceless government: civic action in media photographs during the Venezuelan anti-governmental protests of 2017

Salojärvi

2019

Visual Communication

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Visual media representations of protests are a part of politics in general. A protest is about creating a mediated political event with its own performative bodily and emotional aspects, and cultural memory, each of which affects a sense of citizenship. This article discusses how protest photographs serve as resources for political struggle by examining the visual media stream during the 2017 anti-governmental protests in Venezuela. The data consist of (social) media content and prominent photographs. The selected photographs are then discussed using five functions of iconic photographs proposed in Hariman and Lucaites’ (2007) book, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, with the argument being that the context of the pictures should also be carefully considered when analysing specific photographs because it provides essential information about them. Since the pictures represented daily life and likewise had a special ‘truth effect’ and transmitted affect, they supported the opposition’s and anti-governmental protesters’ discourse on the government as a faceless enemy. This also gave room to the protesters to construct through performativity an emotional juxtaposition to the faceless power and, in this way, emphasize their humanitarian struggle. In particular, the article contributes to how visual representations function in terms of performing citizenship and the role of media photography within the context of an authoritarian government.

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Salojärvi

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2021

Media, War & Conflict

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The Media Use of Diaspora in a Conflict Situation: A Case Study of Venezuelans in Finland

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Framing international crises: a comparative content analysis of media texts on the collapse of Venezuela

Framing international crises: a comparative content analysis of media texts on the collapse of Venezuela

Faceless government: civic action in media photographs during the Venezuelan anti-governmental protests of 2017

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