Proceeding from the cognition that the internet is more than just new information and communication technology since its development embodies, reproduces, and sustains forms of social organization spread through the entire social structure, the article critically discusses the idea that it is the internet (or the digital communication technology in general) that has first blurred the boundaries between passive consumption and active production in communication. The critique of that thesis is rooted in the absence of a thorough analysis of (1) historical predecessors of the internet and (2) social-political consequences of the internet for individual and society. A draft analysis in both dimensions indicates that the internet has no primacy in blurring the boundary between production and consumption in communication, nor does it bring about incontestably favourable social consequences.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33348445
This study explores the notion of the “tyranny of the empty frame” within the online departments of the two leading Slovenian newspapers, Delo and Dnevnik, where online journalists—newsworkers with little or no training or experience in photojournalism—are required to provide each news item with at least one photograph. By adopting newsroom observation and in-depth interviews with online journalists working, we investigate paradoxes associated with this imperative. We suggest that we should not view the phenomena of citizen photojournalism as a radical break with the past but as the latest development in a series of interrelated processes, intellectual projects of modernity, such as ocularcentrism, journalism, capitalism and the nation state.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33335389
The book presents key theoretical debates on news framing and the specifics of the visual framing of news, which are reconsidered within the norms and conventions of the specific cultural apparatus within which photography is put to work – journalism. The book provides a tentative typology of visual framing and outlines the general trend of the visual framing of news as a move towards a more iconic and symbolic representation
COBISS.SI-ID: 282782464