CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Kubik, Tamás |
|---|---|
| Title | What's in a Frame: The Media's Visual Representation of a Hungarian Romani Movement |
| Summary | This study looks at the media’s visual representation of the Roma Pride Day and march organized by “Ide tartozunk!” (“We Belong Here”) Roma Community Network, more closely at the photos and the short video clips used to illustrate the news coverage on the march in the electronic media on the Internet and in the televised news casts. I focus my analysis on photographs because two-dimensional images, and especially photographs, are inherently connected to the three-dimensional space they seek to capture, and because one important aspect of social movements is that they translate the claims they make into a spatial idiom, where the occupied material space legitimizes claims for a symbolic space in society. In conceptualizing the socially produced space that social movements seek to (re)appropriate, I rely on the theoretical foundations of the work of Lefebvre, Soja, hooks and Bhabha. My analysis revealed that news reports privileged an episodic, as opposed to thematic, framing of the events, which drew attention away from the underlying reasons for protest, and apart from a few exceptions, did not represent the Roma marchers as belonging to the same shared space (i.e. social community) as non-Roma viewers of these images, and visually isolated them. |
| Supervisor | Pap, András László; Váradi, Luca |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/kubik_tamas.pdf |
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