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1. Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine.

Author

Martikainen, Jari and Sakki, Inari

Subjects
*MASS media, *PRESS, *WAR, *HUMANISM, *UKRAINIANS, *REFUGEES, *INTERPERSONAL relations, *DISCOURSE analysis, *NEWSPAPERS, *GROUP process
Abstract

This study examines how news images of refugees in the context of the war in Ukraine mobilize intergroup relations. A visual rhetorical analysis is used to examine the rhetorical strategies employed in news images of Ukrainian refugees in a mainstream Finnish national newspaper from February 25 to May 31, 2022. The data consisted of 465 images. The study constructed four humanizing visual rhetorical strategies based on the visual expression in news images: maternalizing, fragilizing, agonizing, and activizing. The rhetorical strategies constructed four subject positions for Ukrainian refugees: vulnerable victims, innocent victims, suffering Ukrainians, and persistent/resilient Ukrainians. All rhetorical strategies implicitly communicated the subject position of evil to Russia. The paper contributes to the current knowledge of the humanization of refugees in media discourse and the potential of media images to mobilize intergroup relations. Methodologically, the paper elaborates visual rhetorical analysis as a means of social psychological study of refugee discourse in the context of war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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2. 'Sanna, Aren’t You Ashamed?' : Affective-Discursive Practices in Online Misogynist Discourse of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin

Author

Sakki, Inari, Martikainen, Jari, Academic Disciplines of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty Common Matters (Faculty of Social Sciences), Everyday thinking and arguing, and Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences

Subjects
Online misogyny, Dehumanisation, 518 Media and communications, POLITICIANS, SEXISM, WOMEN, HILLARY CLINTON, MEDIA COVERAGE, DEPERSONALIZATION, affective-discursive practices, GENDER STEREOTYPES, TWITTER, CAMPAIGN, SARAH PALIN, Female politicians, discourse analysis
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This research examines online misogynist discourse related to the Finnish prime minister (PM) Sanna Marin's image published in Trendi magazine in October 2020. The affective-discursive analysis of online commentaries resulted in the identification of four affective-discursive practices: an immoral woman, incompetent woman, calculating woman and inferior woman. Misogynist discourse related to the PM Marin took the form of a moral act, drew from stereotypical images of women as less rational than men, appeared as accusations targeted at Marin for playing the gender card as a political tactic, and constructed an image of Marin and female politicians as objects of men's sexual desires and as inferior to men. These affective-discursive practices mobilized dehumanizing discourse ranging from milder forms of derogation, scorn and other-condemning practices to harsher forms of belittlement, humiliation and animalistic dehumanization. This study contributes to the current knowledge on the affective-discursive processes underlying online misogyny against female politicians.

Published
2022

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