Images of Conflict – Conflicting Images (ICCI)
ICCI is a large, four-year long (2017-2021) research project. The main research group involves seven scholars from four Danish Universities.
This research project concerns the ways in which digital communication technologies fundamentally change the circulation of images from areas of conflict. While images from conflicts used to be controlled by state and military, they are now produced and distributed in abundance by actors involved in the conflicts such as citizens, activists, soldiers, insurgents, whistle-blowers etc. across media platforms as well as across national boundaries. As a result, the news media no longer enjoy monopoly on visual conflict reporting and state/military are no longer able to censor the image flow to the same extent. However, digital media not only change public access to images from conflicts. Conflicts themselves change as the more uncontrollable image flow contributes to shape, escalate, and de-escalate conflicts – and even to create new conflicts.
The project is hosted at University of Copenhagen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication and headed by associate professor Mette Mortensen.
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Bolette Blaagaard - Artistic Re-Contextualizations of Conflict Images
Solveig Gade - Dynamics of Image Meme: Creation, contention, and control on the Chinese Internet
Jun Liu - Protesting terror: Alternative visual narratives of the ISIS conflict
Ally McCrow-Young - Actors on the ground producing and disseminating images
Nina Grønlykke Mollerup - Visual Icons of War and Terror in the Era of Mass Production and Circulation of Images
Mette Mortensen - Producing Visibility with Images of Riots on Social Media
Christina Neumayer - The Battle of Images: Politics, Iconicity, and Collective Memory
Ekatherina Zhukova
Researchers from MCC
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun Liu | Associate Professor | +4535328416 | |
| Mette Mortensen | Professor | +4535329181 |
External researchers
- Bolette Blaagaard (Aalborg University)
- Solveig Gade (Aarhus University)
- Christina Neumayer
Funding
The project is funded by the foundation's Core Group Grant.
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- Nina Grønlykke Mollerup and Mette Mortensen have published the article: "Proximity and Distance in the Mediation of Suffering: Local Photographers in War-Torn Aleppo and the International Media Circuit" in Journalism, DOI:
Read it here - Bolette Blaagaard has published the research monograph Citizen Journalism as Conceptual Practice: Postcolonial Archives and Embodied Political Acts of New Media. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Christina Neumayer has published the article, co-authored with Minna S Jensen and Luca Rossi “'Brussels will land on its Feet like a Cat': Motivations for Memefying #Brusselslockdown”. Information, Communication & Society,
Read it here - Christina Neumayer has published the article “Images of Protest in Social Media: Struggle over Visibility and Visual Narratives” in New Media & Society Read it here.
- Mette Mortensen has published the article "Struggles for Visibility. Surveillance representations and selfrepresentations of terrorists in the news media", Journalism Studies,
- Mette Mortensen has published the article "The Self-Censorship Dilemma: Media Coverage of Terrorists in the Post-Factual Era”, Journalism Studies, Read it here.
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