Situating Visual Journalism in the Age of Digitalization
Situating Visual Journalism in the Age of Digitalization

Author(s): Yotka Pancheva
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: framing theory; visual communication; visual communication theories; media literacy; multimodal communication; visual framing
Summary/Abstract: The report defines the situation of journalism (visual journalism in particular)in the digital world. Through the method of dispositive analysis, it explores the structural changes of the profession in its transition from the analog to the digital era. The transformations concerning visual journalism in the media industry, the process of news production, the adaptation to digitalization, mobile communication, and social media promotion, the decline of readers, convergence, participatory culture, tabloidization, fake news, etc. are explored. Also visual journalism’s relation in the context of the fear of the “crisis(es) of journalism” is likely to have an extremely negative impact on democracy. In this respect, the study falls within the discursive scope of several other studies and contributes to a robust argument about why journalism is important and why we should study it.

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