Images of Transgressions

Visuals as Reconstructed Evidence in Digital Investigative Journalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12659474
AutoresFredrik Bjerknes (University of Bergen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen23
Número8
Páginas951-973
Fecha de publicación2022-04-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournalism Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-670X • E-ISSN: 1469-9699
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1461670x.2022.2061574
OpenAlexW4225550746
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas52

The epistemic authority of journalism has undergone significant theorization and empirical investigations in past years. This article contributes to this growing body of scholarship by analyzing how collected images and videos are used as evidence in 14 visual video investigations by The New York Times. A visual discourse analysis following the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) is conducted to map out how an investigative way of seeing is established by coexisting discursive practices, including narrativization, coding schemes, highlighting techniques, and juxtaposition of video footage in split-screen mode. The article argues that these discursive practices serve as markers of authority which together facilitate a demonstration that recontextualizes collected visuals into evidence, reanimating them as external objects of knowledge that can be interrogated in epistemic struggles concerning the definition of controversial events

Art · Coding (social sciences · Empirical evidence · Epistemology · Journalism · Media studies · Photography · Photojournalism · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Rhetoric and Communication Studies