Fonseca, Journal of Communication

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Data visualization

pathways between art and science in the production and consumption of images

Abstract

The main goal of this study is to analyze the characteristics of the image of the SARS-CoV-2 in the Spanish television news programs, and its evolution, as well as their relation with the scientific images of the virus they were based upon. Thus, a sample of images from four television networks (RTVE, Antena TV, La Sexta y Cuatro), in 2020 and 2021, have been studied. The image of the virus should be in the background screen of the television set.  Moreover, images of the SARS-CoV-2 published in the webpages of two scientific institutions, CDC, and NIAID, were also analyzed.  The results show that television news programs used mainly 3D images of the virus, and there is a trend in 2021 to include only one specimen of the virus. Likewise, the data showed a functional convergence in both scientific and media images of the virus, as the creators of the scientific images manipulated chromatically most of the images registered by electronic microscopes. This investigation contributes to the knowledge of the visual imaginary of pandemics, as well as proves the increasingly vague limits between scientific and media images.
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Jaime López-Díez

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Doctor en Comunicaci´ón Audiovisual y Publicidad (UVA) y Licenciado en Ciencias de la Información (UCM=.   Profesor Ayudante Doctor de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Principales campos de estudio: cine transnacional, narratología audiovisual, emociones. 
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