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Title: Counteracting Dominant Discourses about Migrations with Images: a Typology Attempt
Authors: Gomis, Elsa Claire
Keywords: Migration;Images;Funnel of Causality;Motifs
Issue Date: 2019
Citation: Gomis, E.C. (2019). Counteracting Dominant Discourses about Migrations with Images: a Typology Attempt. Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge-JMK, 4(2), 161-181. DOI: 10.26409/2019JMK4.2.11
Abstract: This 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.
URI: http://www.mediterraneanknowledge.org/publications/index.php/journal/issue/archive
http://elea.unisa.it:8080/xmlui/handle/10556/4121
http://dx.doi.org/10.26409/2019JMK4.2.11
http://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-2330
ISSN: 2499-930X
Appears in Collections:Vol 4, No 2 (2019): Artistic Strategies of Migration: Art as a Resistance or as a Reinsurance?

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