'Symbolic photographs' as floating and empty signifiers
| Autor: | Ilija Tomanić Trivundža, Andreja Vezovnik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language History Norm (philosophy) Sociology and Political Science Floating signifier 05 social sciences Photography 050801 communication & media studies Mode (music) Politics 0508 media and communications Extension (metaphysics) Aesthetics 0602 languages and literature Journalism Iconicity |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Language and Politics. 20:145-161 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9862 1569-2159 |
| Popis: | The article discusses the use of “symbolic photographs” – images in news reporting which have no direct connection to reported events – in news reporting. Such images deviate not only from the self-professed journalistic norm of factual reporting but also fundamentally challenge the act of civic eyewitnessing constitutive for visual journalism. Concepts of floating and empty signifiers from Discourse Theory are applied to “symbolic photographs” to analyse their ambivalent act of signification, their particular mode of iconicity and, by extension, the journalistic and political implications of their repetitive use. |
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