期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
卷 25, 期 3-4, 页码 309-330出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/13678779211061415
关键词
banal nationalism; Covid-19; data visualization; generic visuals; news media; symbolic reiteration; stock photography; visual communication
资金
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/T000015/1]
- AHRC [AH/T000015/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The article discusses the importance of generic visuals in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. These visuals, through symbolic repetition, promote nationalism, localism, and cosmopolitanism. By analyzing the coverage of three major UK news outlets, the article highlights the role of the state in responding to the crisis.
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of the virus molecule and 'flatten-the-curve' line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repertoire of vaccines, people wearing face masks in everyday settings, choropleth maps and both bar and line charts. These 'generic visuals' circulate widely in the news media and, however unremarkable, play an important role in representing the crisis in particular ways. We argue that these generic visuals promote banal nationalism, localism and cosmopolitanism in the face of the crisis, and that they do so through the symbolic reiteration of a range of visual resources across news stories. Through an analysis of three major news outlets in the UK, we examine how generic visuals of Covid-19 contribute to these banal visions and versions of belonging and, in doing so, also to foregrounding the role of the state in responding to the crisis.
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