Visualization of disability in news photographs: an analytical framework

Ang, Pei Soo and Knox, John S. (2023) Visualization of disability in news photographs: an analytical framework. Visual Communication, 22 (4). pp. 600-622. ISSN 1470-3572, DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357220957051.

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Abstract

This article proposes a framework for analyzing visual discourses of disability in press photographs: the Visual Discourses of Disability (ViDD) framework. The development of this framework is based on an analysis of 670 news photographs of disability published in a Malaysian English-language mainstream newspaper. Within the ViDD, the authors propose the notion of perspectivization of disability: how elements in a photo are configured to frame the perspective of disability. These configurations can be placed on a cline, from perspectivizing to personizing. In addition, the cumulative attitudinal meanings in a news image can be placed on another cline, from enabling to disabling. The ViDD framework combines both clines to understand and explain how news photographs construe disability. This framework can serve as a tool for making informed choices in selecting and publishing images of people with a disability, and of disability.

Item Type: Article
Funders: Ministry of Education, Malaysia, Macquarie University, Australia
Uncontrolled Keywords: critical disability studies; critical semiotics; discourses of disability; perspectivization; photojournalism; ViDD framework
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > Communication. Mass media
Divisions: Faculty of Languages and Linguistics
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 26 May 2025 03:26
Last Modified: 26 May 2025 03:26
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/51062

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