Visually framing press freedom and responsibility of a massacre: Photographic and graphic images in Charlie Hedbo’s newspaper front pages around the world

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University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences
University of Canterbury. Media and Communications
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2015
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Gustafson, K.
Kenix, L.J.
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This research examines 441 front-page images published in 367 newspapers on the day following the shooting in Paris of twelve people at or near the satirical magazine to understand how mainstream media visually frame responsibility for the Charlie Hedbo massacre and how visual framing 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 that news media had a vested interest in advancing.

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Gustafson, K., Kenix, L.J. (2015) Visually framing press freedom and responsibility of a massacre: Photographic and graphic images in Charlie Hedbo’s newspaper front pages around the world. San Francisco, California: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, August.
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cartoon, Charlie Hedbo, press freedom, democracy
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Field of Research::19 - Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing::1903 - Journalism and Professional Writing::190399 - Journalism and Professional Writing not elsewhere classified
Field of Research::20 - Language, Communication and Culture::2001 - Communication and Media Studies::200199 - Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
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