Higgins, Kathryn (2022) Rethinking visual criminalization: news images and the mediated spacetime of crime events. Visual Communication. ISSN 1470-3572
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Abstract
This article explores the mediated spacetime of crime events to reconsider how criminalization works through visual journalism. Drawing on close analysis of 45 images from Australian newspaper reports about so-called ‘African gang crime’ events in the city of Melbourne, it develops a typology of five distinct ‘ways of looking’ at crime that news images can open for their viewers. Each extends unique imaginative demands and so conditions perceptual relationships of spatial, historical and political significance between crime events and those who watch them unfold through the news in distinct ways. Together, these ways of looking constitute an intertextual representational mechanism that the author calls kaleidoscopic visuality, holding fixed the ‘who’ and ‘what’ of crime events while endlessly shifting and destabilizing the ‘where’ and ‘when’. The concept of kaleidoscopic visuality helps clarify how and why hypermediated crime events and phenomena resist discrete and/or desecuritized interpretations of their political significance, and thus broadens existing accounts of how news images criminalize.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://journals.sagepub.com/home/VCJ |
Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author |
Divisions: | Media and Communications |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
Date Deposited: | 10 May 2022 15:48 |
Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2024 06:15 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/115081 |
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