Peering Down at the Junkie

Authority and the Visual Construction of Drug Users in Time ’s “Opioid Diary”

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ID21747701
AutoresAlex Scott (0000-0003-0366-8404, Twitter (United States), autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume28
Fascículo3
Páginas152-165
Data de publicação2021-07-03
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVisual Communication Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1555-1393 • E-ISSN: 1555-1407
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15551393.2021.1949721
OpenAlexW3202996264
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas22

Focusing on the 2018 special issue of TIME entitled “The Opioid Diaries,” this study examines the way drug users are visually framed through both an embodied image-making process and a constructed end product. Using a multimodal analysis, it argues that James Nachtwey’s images created a simplified view of addiction while inserting an asymmetrical power dynamic between the depicted subject and viewer. This study also examines how images can carry and construct discourses of drug use, which have been used historically for social and institutional discipline such as harassment, arrest, and methadone treatment programs

Affordance · Cognitive psychology · Embodied cognition · Harassment · Media studies · Michel foucault · Peering · Political science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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