Subjectless images: visualization of migrants in Croatian and Slovenian public broadcasters’ online news

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Andreja Vezovnik and Ljiljana Šarić explore how migrants were visually presented in Croatian and Slovenian public broadcaster' online news, during the so-called migration crisis in Europe in the fall of 2015. The analysis considers photographs from two public broadcasters’ news portals: Slovenia's rtvslo.si and Croatia's hrt.hr. The focus is on a specific category of images the authors label subjectless images; that is, images visually representing migrants and migration that avoid showing migrants as subjects. In these images, human subjects are substituted by objects that metaphorically, metonymically, or symbolically stand for migrants and migration.

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