Animals, Media, and Re-presentation
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Welfare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2024 | Viewed by 5210
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ways media and popular culture re-present animals impacts their lives as well as ours. Limited and limiting portrayals stereotype species so that audiences who have never met a particular animal in person tend to rely upon what they see and hear, thus cultivating one-dimensional understandings of them. Sometimes these are artificially positive re-presentations, such as of polar bears (cute, cuddly, Coca-Cola spokesanimals). Others are negative (wolves, sharks, insects). What audiences take away from these symbolic encounters impacts animal lives. This special issue invites interrogations of media and popular culture stories, past and present, that analyze words or images (discourse) according to a strong theoretical foundation, and speak to ways that, moving forward, media can more accurately and respectfully offer ideas of animals that benefit all beings.
We invite original research that identifies stereotypes of animals other than humans in media and popular culture and connects these portrayals with the lived experiences of a particular species. Topics can include portrayals in news media, film, internet, books, or objects. All research methods are welcome and can include discourse analysis (visual/verbal), qualitative, quantitative, historical, or semiotics or others.
This Special Issue will focus on species whose popular image has been shaped by portrayals.
Prof. Dr. Debra Merskin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- animals
- media
- popular culture
- portrayals
- representation
- stereotypes
- intersectionality
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