Representation of Corona on Telegram Platform of Domestic and Satellite Persian Language Channels; A Comparative Study of the Channels IRIB News Agency, VOA & Manoto

Sadeghi, Javad; Fathi, Ebrahim

doi:10.22082/cr.2022.546272.2288

Representation of Corona on Telegram Platform of Domestic and Satellite Persian Language Channels; A Comparative Study of the Channels IRIB News Agency, VOA & Manoto

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Javad Sadeghi ¹

Ebrahim Fathi ²

¹ Social Communication Sciences

² Assistant Prof. In Culture & Communication, IRIB University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22082/cr.2022.546272.2288

Abstract

Media represent the corona pandemic based on their own perspectives and the demands of the governors positively or negatively, as such they often did not consider the corona as a disease, but an ideological matter. The purpose of this research is to study how corona news is framed.In this research the visual texts, which purposefully selected, of channels IRIB, VOA and Manoto on their Telegram platform were examined using semiotic methods. The publication of Corona images on the telegram platform of IRIB News Agency was framed with "authority of doctors and the cooperation of the people". VOA telegram platform used the Corona as a tool to "generalize the disease" and framed it as a "demonstration of corona healing processes". And finally, Manoto channel published video texts related to Corona on its Telegram platform as a "Transformation of Death Relationships". It can be said that IRIB news agency seeks to conserve the value system and maintain the status quo. In contrast, VOA and Manoto channels seek to construct an ideological and magnify crisis, representing the corona disease with old unrelated myths and implying a distorted meaning.

Highlights

نوآوری پژوهش

کشف تفاوت بازنمایی‌‏های کرونایی در بستر فضای مجازی (به‏‌مثابه رسانه جایگزین و ارائه‌‏دهنده دیدگاه‌‏های رسانه‏‌های جریان اصلی)
بهره‌‏گیری توأمان از سه رویکرد نشانه‌‏شناختی برای مطالعه عمیق‌‏تر و جامع‌‏تر روایت‏‌های کرونایی و تفسیر آنها
خوانش معناشناختی رمزگان‌های اجتماعی و تفسیریِ ایماژهای کرونایی در دو جریان رسانه‌‏ای رقیب.

محدودیت‌های پژوهش

محدودیت روش‌شناسی نشانه‌شناسی در تحلیل و انتخاب هدفمند موضوع‌های تصویری
محدودیت تکنولوژیکی بستر پلتفرم تلگرام ازجمله فیلترینگ که رصد، پایش و جستجوی تصاویر و کلیدواژه‌های جستجو را دشوار می‌کرد.
چندوجهی بودن موضوع مقاله و توافق نداشتن بر سر آن، در محافل آکادمیکی.

Keywords

Representation

Framing

Corona

Semiotics

20.1001.1.25382977.1401.29.109.4.1

Subjects

Health Communications

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