Framing the Embodied Journalist

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F23%3A73621370" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/23:73621370 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://revue.surlejournalisme.com/slj/article/view/580/505" target="_blank" >https://revue.surlejournalisme.com/slj/article/view/580/505</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.25200/SLJ.v12.n2.2023.580" target="_blank" >10.25200/SLJ.v12.n2.2023.580</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Framing the Embodied Journalist

Original language description

This research comic explores the “authenticity strategy” of comics journalists’ embodiment as a character within their own reporting and the often co-occurring authenticity strategy of visual realism to emphasize the “truthiness” of the journalist’s account. Examining the journalistic comics of Joe Sacco, George Butler, and Olivier Kugler, among others, this study identifies some of the reasons legitimating the practice of including an embodied journalist. We suggest that these strategies are primarily influenced by expectations of storytelling in comics format and the visual rhetoric of the genre.The concepts of visual authenticity in comics are drawn from Elisabeth El Rafaie (2012) and Wibke Weber and Hans-Martin Rall’s study of visual strategies in reporting in comics journalism (2017; also Weber 2020). We place these strategies into the context of fictionality and storytelling, through Mari Hatavara and Jarmila Mildorf’s framework of fictionality and vicarious storytelling (2017), understood as storytelling in the comics format through the work of Jan Baetens (2018).This research comic concludes with a reflection on working strategies which can use the reporter-character in comics journalism to add transparency about the journalistic process and the constructed nature of reporting and publishing. We consider the verbal/audio approach to recording and reporting presented by CREADOC, the documentary school in Angoulême, France, and its possible application to comics journalism.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50801 - Journalism

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sur le journalisme

ISSN

2295-0710

e-ISSN

2295-0729

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

BE - BELGIUM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

71-86

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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