What is it about?
This study compares domestic and international visual news coverage of Australia's 2019-20 bushfire season (colloquially known as "black summer"). Australian media drew on the personalization news value and was intensely human-focused. In contrast, international media drew on the superlativeness, impact, and proximity news values and focussed much more on the cost to the natural environment and to animals, drawing explicit parallels between their nations and Australia in light of the growing threat of climate change.
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Why is it important?
The same scene or event can be depicted in drastically different ways depending on who is covering it and selecting the resulting images for publication. This study illuminates how these choices were made and mobilized for political purposes.
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This page is a summary of: Picturing destruction at home and abroad: a comparative visual analysis of icons and news values during disaster, Media International Australia, April 2021, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1329878x211008181.
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