From the Digital Frontlines – Changes in User Engagement with Narratives Surrounding Images of Conflict
How have shifts from traditional to digital media circulation changed how users engage with and react to narratives surrounding images of conflict and violence?
To explore how the transition from traditional to digital media circulation has reshaped user engagement, perception, and emotional response to narratives surrounding images of conflict and violence.
Assess key differences in how conflict imagery is presented across traditional (print, broadcast) and digital (social media, online news) platforms.
Investigate how narratives surrounding images are shaped through the context they a viewed and the information present at time of viewing.
Analyse how digital circulation affects empathy, desensitisation, and political engagement among audiences when compared to traditional forms. Understanding how reactions to narrative form.
Identify why the reactions that emerge as a result of media narratives in digital spaces are different to that of past narratives fed through traditional media spaces.
Compare conflict imagery across traditional vs. digital media.
Examine how viewing context shapes image narratives.