Autore
Gomis, Elsa ClaireTitolo
Counteracting Dominant Discourses about Migrations with Images: a Typology Attempt Periodico
Journal of Mediterranean knowledge (Online)Anno:
2019 - Volume:
4 - Fascicolo:
2 - Pagina iniziale:
161 - Pagina finale:
181This article examines a series of art and media images which have contributed to
counteracting dominant discourses about migrations. Through recourse to recent research in
political science and psychology, it suggests that both the genre of the images and the very
nature of their message contribute to shapingopinions and public policies. Specifically, it
emphasises how the recurrence of certain motifs helps to diffuse a feeling of anxiety about
the migration “crisis”. By doing so, this article updates the “Funnel of Causality”,a
theoretical tool elaborated by political scientists to analyse voting behaviour that is now
used to understand attitudes toward migrations. In this scheme, the media effect, in which
images play an increasing part, is consideredto be of minor importance, whereas moral
values appear to be crucial. However, the present article shows how these very values are
fostered and conveyed by certain images, particularly those of fictional nature.
SICI: 2499-930X(2019)4:2<161:CDDAMW>2.0.ZU;2-I
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