Photojournalism and Covid-19
Representation and invisibility during the first confinement in Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12624554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebeca Pardo (0000-0002-4475-6411, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, corresponding author), Montse Morcate (0000-0001-6594-2806, Universitat de Barcelona) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | El Profesional de la Informacion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1386-6710 • E-ISSN: 1699-2407 |
| Publisher | Ediciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3145/epi.2022.mar.01 |
| OpenAlex | W4220724039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
The State of Alarm period declared by the Spanish Government due to the coronavirus crisis has had an exhaustive media coverage. However, it is observed how the visual story / narrative that has been published in the newspapers goes beyond the health field, focusing mainly on aspects of a social, political or economic nature. The types of images with the greatest presence in the representation of the harshest weeks of the pandemic determine the type of coverage, causing some relevant aspects to be minimized or invisibilized, and conditions the impact and the understanding of the severity of the disease in the society, in a particularly difficult and decisive moment such as the confinement of citizens. In the same way, the published images will have a later impact as a document by becoming part of the historical memory in the future. This article focuses on the analysis of the images published during the State of Alarm in three of the most relevant and broader scope national newspapers (El país, La vanguardia and El mundo), which is complemented by semi-directed interviews with several photojournalists who have covered Covid-19 during its first stage. The cataloging of the photographs in various categories is intended to observe the type of story that has been made visible of the Covid-19 (assessing the way in which this pandemic is being shown as an epidemic or syndemic), as well as to detect some of the most present and/or recurring visual representations and identify which are the most prominent absences
Art · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Government (linguistics · Invisibility · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Newspaper · Pandemic · Photography · Photojournalism · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Representation (politics · Social media · Sociology · State (computer science · Visual arts · Advertising and Communication Studies · Communication and COVID-19 Impact · Computer Science · History · Law · Medicine · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |