코로나19 관련 CNN 뉴스 영상분석: ‘타자’의 질병에서 ‘우리’의 질병으로

초록

The COVID-19 from 2019 to 2010 is a global crisis what would change the modern history of human beings in terms of global public health and human civilization. As the coronavirus from China unprecedentedly attacked the European countries and the U.S., the existing disease worldview based on the West supremacy and ‘Orientalism’ has been seriously unsettled. This study attempts to examine how the visual coverage of the global news media has been changed as the Chinese outbreaks expanding to the ‘global pandemic’ and the serious Western disease crisis. For this purpose, this study analysed the news items of CNNI(CNN International) focusing on the visual aspects. Using both the quantitative and qualitative methods, this study closely examines 1) the structural elements, 2) visual thematic frame, 3) visual expressive style of 8 CNN world news items from 2020. 1.1 to 3.31. Research findings show that the coverage of Chinese Wuhan’s outbreak employs the narratives of disease ‘othering’ with the visual thematic frame of ‘emergency,’ and ‘cultural stereotypes’ On the other hand, the coverage of the U.S and Italy tends to use the narrative of ‘our disease’ using the visual frames of the ‘scientific control’ and ‘visualization of virus’ The social cultural implication of research findings are discussed.

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