Giaxoglou, Korina and Spilioti, Tereza ![]() |
Abstract
This chapter provides a small story lens into the mediatization of death and suffering through practices of (social) media sharing of emblematic images. Drawing on narrative analysis and social semiotics, we examine how characters, time and place are drawn upon as resources for the visual-narrative remediation and mediatization of the refugee crisis. We argue that the visual emblematization of children as innocent victims of suffering relies on intertextual, iterative and portable plottings of characters, time and place in the context of ecstatic sharing of reworkings of particular emblematic images. Our findings suggest that such narrativization indexes moral and affective stances, placing networked publics in positions of distant witnessing and mourning that afford phatic communion in the sharing of the refugee crisis story in-the-making.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | English, Communication and Philosophy |
Additional Information: | Copyright year 2017. |
Publisher: | De Boeck |
ISBN: | 9782807306028 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2022 11:51 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/103313 |
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