Visually Framing Press Freedom and Responsibility of a Massacre: Photographic and Graphic Images in Charlie Hebdo's Newspaper Front Pages Around the World. Issue 3 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gustafson, Kristin L.; Kenix, Linda Jean
• Is Part Of: Visual communication quarterly. Volume 23:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 147
• Page End: 160
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Visual communication -- Periodicals; 302.23
• DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2016.1190623
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1555-1393

Abstract

Abstract : This research examines 441 front-page images published in 367 newspapers on the day following the shooting in Paris of 12 people at or near the Charlie Hebdo office. The aim of this study is to understand how mainstream media visually framed responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo massacre and how these visual frames coalesced to represent collective narratives about press freedom. Through a collaborative visual analysis, this study attempts to understand how the selected visual frames worked to communicate the causes, effects, and responses to the massacre and also to press freedom—an ideological construct that news media had a vested interest in advancing .