Casting heroes and victims of disaster events: representations of race and gender in Hurricane Harvey front page news images

IF 1.1 2区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-21 DOI:10.1080/15295036.2022.2121412

E. Figueroa

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Mainstream press coverage of public disaster events produce mythological narratives of heroism, sacrifice and authority. Press coverage of Hurricane Harvey in the late summer of 2017 proved to be an important historical moment in disaster coverage. A visual textual analysis of 106 front page photos of newspapers from August 28, 2017, to September 4, 2017 was conducted. The results show that news media represented people of color as displaced migrants and women as damsels in distress, while white men were represented as saviors and caretakers who brought order back to the chaos surrounding the storm’s social impact in the Houston community.

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灾难事件中的英雄和受害者的塑造:哈维飓风头版新闻图片中种族和性别的表现

主流媒体对公共灾难事件的报道产生了英雄主义、牺牲和权威的神话叙事。2017年夏末，媒体对飓风哈维的报道被证明是灾难报道的一个重要历史时刻。对2017年8月28日至9月4日的106张报纸头版照片进行了视觉文本分析。结果显示，新闻媒体将有色人种描述为流离失所的移民，将女性描述为遇难的少女，而白人男性则被描述为拯救者和照顾者，他们将风暴对休斯顿社区的社会影响带来的混乱重新恢复秩序。

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CSMC publishes original scholarship in mediated and mass communication from a cultural studies and/or critical perspective. It particularly welcomes submissions that enrich debates among various critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. CSMC takes an inclusive view of media and welcomes scholarship on topics such as • media audiences • representations • institutions • digital technologies • social media • gaming • professional practices and ethics • production studies • media history • political economy. CSMC publishes scholarship about media audiences, representations, institutions, technologies, and professional practices. It includes work in history, political economy, critical philosophy, race and feminist theorizing, rhetorical and media criticism, and literary theory. It takes an inclusive view of media, including newspapers, magazines and other forms of print, cable, radio, television, film, and new media technologies such as the Internet.