Really Social Disaster

An Examination of Photo Sharing on Twitter During the #SCFlood

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7511682
AutoresTara Marie Mortensen (0000-0002-4541-1570, autor de correspondencia), Kevin Hull (0000-0001-6461-4069), Kelli S Boling (0000-0003-1236-8761)
Año2017
Volumen24
Número4
Páginas219-229
Fecha de publicación2017-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVisual Communication Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1555-1393 • E-ISSN: 1555-1407
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15551393.2017.1388704
OpenAlexW2780866284
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas34

In the open marketplace of visuals where the most valued photographs “rise to the top” via tweets, likes, and retweets rather than being dictated by professionals, the study of what makes an image go really social is merited. One occurrence during which professional photojournalism and nonprofessional photography truly coexist, intermingle, and blur is that of a natural disaster. A body of research exists that has examined the visual framing of disasters, but none has addressed how these differently framed photos go social online or by whom. In this study, 1,078 Twitter photos shared by professional media outlets and nonprofessional tweeters were examined to see what portrayals of photos are elevated in the network. Established frames and new frames were examined: depictions of people, emotional hierarchy, novelty, victims, ordinary people, uniforms, emergency professionals, valence, pragmatic, human interest, and political. The results add empirical evidence to the different ways that professional members of media and other visual sharers understand, visually communicate, and react to disaster and add to the visual framing literature an element of really social visual framing

Advertising · Art · Framing (construction · Media studies · Natural disaster · Novelty · Photography · Photojournalism · Political science · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · History · Social Psychology