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Epistemic Authority, Lies, and Video: the Constitution of Knowledge and (in)Security in the Video/Security Nexus
Full text linkThis article analyses how videos of violent protests become politically powerful
arguments able to intervene in debates about security. It does so by looking at a series of videos taken by police authorities and protesters during street battles in Copenhagen in August 2009, when protesters opposed the forced eviction of a group of Iraqi asylum seekers from the Brorson Church. It zooms in on how politically acceptable knowledge about the event is constituted in dialogue between the videos and the surrounding mediascape. The study thus aims to shed light on the question of how videos of violent politics are present in politics, arguing that this happens only through being remediated as politics – and that the underlying epistemic regime governing how political knowledge is arrived at plays a key function in transforming videos from individual representations to
politically relevant knowledge. In analysing how both police and protesters enact
strategies that condition the possibility for images to figure in and impact post-conflict debate, the article explores how both governance and resistance is currently constituted by means of images. It ultimately considers what this means in terms of the conditions of possibility of video-mediated resistance
The civilian's visual security paradox: how open source intelligence practices create insecurity for civilians in warzones
No full textVisual security: patterns and prospects
No full textIn this chapter, Roland Bleiker reflects on the journey that has led from the aesthetic turn in international relations to the present situation, where the increasing speed of visual imagery and the democratisation of visual (security) politics make visual security studies a crucial subfield of security studies. Reflecting on the current state of visual security studies, Bleiker identifies two challenges that are particularly important in continuing to develop the visual security research agenda. The first is the images-emotions-security nexus and the need to better understand the role played by emotions in visual security. Second, visual security studies need to keep pursuing experimental research that, as pioneered in the visual security studies collection, use visual methods while retaining the ability to communicate in accessible and compelling ways
REMEDIATING #IRANELECTION:Journalistic strategies for positioning citizen-made snapshots and text bites from the 2009 Iranian post-election conflict
No full textWhen mass protests and violent crackdown followed the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Western mass media found themselves in a precarious situation: eager to report on the unfolding events, but without access to them; save through snapshots and text bites posted to content- sharing sites by unknown users. Basing news coverage on such content challenged journalistic understandings of credibility as produced by professional routines, thus disturbing the foundation of epistemic authority on which professional journalism builds. Neglecting it, however, would challenge journalism’s ability to portray anything at all. This article investigates how the positioning of citizen micro-journalism was textually negotiated in news reports by attributing different degrees of epistemic authority to citizen-made content. It argues that the strategies used greatly privilege the unknown image vis-a`-vis the unknown verbal report. While verbal reports are treated as illustrative of communication practices or attributed doubt, images are allowed to represent the crisis, and frequently made indistinguishable from professionally produced content. Furthermore, in attributing citizen-made content to news agencies and mediation channels, the incorporation practices treat intermediation as a source of credibility. Deconstructing the process of constructing epistemologically authoritative news thus highlights how mediation, news values, source practices, and image conventions are relied on to perform credibility.KEYWORDS content-sharing sites; epistemic authority; images; Iran; journalism; remediation; social medi
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Internationale medier: Når sproget er den eneste forskel
No full textDa Doha-forhandlingsrunden gik i gang i 2001 var det med intentionerne om, at den ny global handelsaftale skulle ligge på plads i 2004. forhandlingerne startede lige efter 11 september under intens mediebevågenhed, og fra forskellige hjørner af verden blev der anlagt mange forskellige syn på såvel forhandlingerne som formålet med dem. Det gør der ikke mere. Efter tusindvis af historier i dusinvis af førende aviser verden over ser det ud til at der kun er én historie tilbage: Det neo-liberale udviklingseventyr. For i perioden 2001-2006 – hvor jeg har analyseret pressedækningen i USA, Spanien, England, Indien og Argentina – er der sket en bemærkelsesværdig ensretning af presseomtalen af forhandlingerne – i øvrigt sideløbende med at forhandlingerne er blevet stadig mere fastlåste. </span
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