Rethinking media responsibility in the refugee ‘crisis’
A visual typology of European news
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11267722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lilie Chouliaraki (0000-0002-5683-4691, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Tijana Stolic (0000-0002-4182-5004, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1162-1177 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443717726163 |
| OpenAlex | W2753269008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 207 |
| References cited | 40 |
In this paper, we analyse how news images of the 2015 Syrian refugee ‘crisis’ visualise refugees and how, in so doing, they mobilise various forms of moral responsibility in ‘our’ mediated public life – various practical dispositions of action towards the misfortunes of migrants and refugees at Europe’s border. On the basis of empirical material from European news (June-December 2015), we construct a typology of visibilities of the ‘crisis’, each of which situates refugees within a different regime of visibility and claim to action: i) visibility as biological life, associated with monitorial action; ii) visibility as empathy associated with charitable action; iii) visibility as threat, associated with state security; iv) visibility as hospitality, associated with political activism; and v) visibility as self-reflexivity, associated with a post-humanitarian engagement with people like ‘us’. In conclusion, we argue that, important as these five categories of visibility are in introducing public dispositions to action towards the vulnerable, they nonetheless ultimately fail to humanise migrants and refugees. This failure to portray them as human beings with lives that are worth sharing should compel us, we urge, to radically re-think how we understand the media’s responsibility towards vulnerable others
Action (physics · Criminology · Hospitality · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Typology · Visibility · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
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Hospitability
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Europe's Border Crisis
Rightlessness
Distant Suffering
Global Civil Society
Liberal Strategies of Exclusion
The Human Condition
The Human Condition
Moving images
Refugees in International Relations
A World of Emergencies
Towards an analytics of mediation
Unsettling a sacred relationship
The Mediation of Suffering and the Vision of a Cosmopolitan Public
Beyond connection
Aylan Kurdi
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Mare Nostrum
Collateral coverage
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| Unique citing works | 207 |
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| Citations per year | 25,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 203 |