Digital Images and Globalized Conflict

TY - JOUR

T1 - Digital Images and Globalized Conflict

AU - Blaagaard, Bolette

AU - Mortensen, Mette

AU - Neumayer, Christina

PY - 2017/11/1

Y1 - 2017/11/1

N2 - As the number of digital images of globalized conflicts online grow, critical examination of their impact and consequence is timely. This editorial provides an overview of digital images and globalized conflict as a field of study by discussing regimes of visibility and invisibility, proximity and distance, and the multiplicity of images. It engages critically with these interlinking themes as they are addressed in the contributing articles to the Special Issue as well as beyond, asking how genres and tropes are reproduced, how power plays a role in access to images, and how the sheer quantity of conflict-related images raise issues of knowledge production and research.

AB - As the number of digital images of globalized conflicts online grow, critical examination of their impact and consequence is timely. This editorial provides an overview of digital images and globalized conflict as a field of study by discussing regimes of visibility and invisibility, proximity and distance, and the multiplicity of images. It engages critically with these interlinking themes as they are addressed in the contributing articles to the Special Issue as well as beyond, asking how genres and tropes are reproduced, how power plays a role in access to images, and how the sheer quantity of conflict-related images raise issues of knowledge production and research.

U2 - 10.1177/0163443717725573

DO - 10.1177/0163443717725573

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0163-4437

VL - 39

SP - 1111

EP - 1121

JO - Media, Culture & Society

JF - Media, Culture & Society

IS - 8

ER -