'Generic visuals' of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration.

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1177/13678779211061415

Giorgia Aiello, Helen Kennedy, C W Anderson, Camilla Mørk Røstvik

引用次数: 11

Abstract

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of the virus molecule and 'flatten-the-curve' line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repertoire of vaccines, people wearing face masks in everyday settings, choropleth maps and both bar and line charts. These 'generic visuals' circulate widely in the news media and, however unremarkable, play an important role in representing the crisis in particular ways. We argue that these generic visuals promote banal nationalism, localism and cosmopolitanism in the face of the crisis, and that they do so through the symbolic reiteration of a range of visual resources across news stories. Through an analysis of three major news outlets in the UK, we examine how generic visuals of Covid-19 contribute to these banal visions and versions of belonging and, in doing so, also to foregrounding the role of the state in responding to the crisis.

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新闻中新冠肺炎的“一般视觉效果”：通过象征性的重复唤起平庸的归属感。

在新冠肺炎大流行的早期，病毒分子的图像和“曲线图”是不可避免的。现在有大量的疫苗、人们在日常生活中戴口罩、合唱地图以及条形图和折线图。这些“通用视觉”在新闻媒体中广泛传播，尽管不起眼，但在以特定方式代表危机方面发挥着重要作用。我们认为，面对危机，这些通用的视觉效果促进了平庸的民族主义、地方主义和世界主义，而且它们是通过在新闻故事中象征性地重复一系列视觉资源来实现的。通过对英国三家主要新闻媒体的分析，我们研究了新冠肺炎的一般视觉如何促成这些平庸的愿景和归属感，并在这样做的过程中，突出了国家在应对危机中的作用。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.