TY - JOUR
TI - Animal Studies as a New Research Territory in Polish Media Studies. Images of Animals in the Media Coverage of Natural Disasters
AU - Hodalska, Magdalena
TI - Animal Studies as a New Research Territory in Polish Media Studies. Images of Animals in the Media Coverage of Natural Disasters
AB - The purpose of this article is to identify and describe an important research area, which has still not been developed in Polish media studies, namely animal studies. Many researchers discuss problems that are covered by cultural animal studies, a research area developed dynamically in the West, and still not very advanced in Poland. A critical analysis of literature made it possible to introduce the works of foreign authors and identify gaps in the knowledge, as regards Polish literature in the area of Critical Animal and Media Studies. The list of research areas, as well as the methods that can be used in media studies, closes with an overview of animal narratives in media coverage of disasters. The multidimensionality of animal narratives will be discussed through the prism of stories told by journalists covering the aftermath of floods, mudslides, fires, earthquakes and hurricanes in the last two decades. Those stories were filled with metaphors based on the persuasively powerful images of domestic and wild animals.
VL - First View
IS - Volume 67, Issue 3 (259)
PY - 2024
SN - 0555-0025
C1 - 2299-6362
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeszyty-prasoznawcze/article/animal-studies-jako-terytorium-badawcze-w-polskim-medioznawstwie-obrazy-zwierzat-w-mediach-podczas-kataklizmow
KW - animals
KW - animal studies
KW - media studies
KW - media
KW - narratives
KW - disasters
KW - the elements
KW - nature
KW - journalistic coverage
KW - metaphors