Time magazine’s “Finding Home” analysis: A case of storytelling innovation on distant suffering

• Müggenburg, Gabriela ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

     Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     
• Localización: Dígitos: Revista de Comunicación Digital, ISSN-e 2444-0132, Nº. 9, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Consumo de noticias y evasión de noticias en el sistema de medios híbridos), págs. 57-83
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.7203/drdcd.v0i9.262
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  • This article aims to analyze an innovative and comprehensive way to report on migration and refugees tackling Time’s magazine “Finding Home”, a multimedia project held during 2016 mainly through a specific Instagram account. Throughout a year long, it tells the story about three Syrian women and their families who found shelter in refugee camps in Greece, all three of them while being pregnant and looking for a permanent place to settle. This piece of research explores qualitatively how the media is representing migrants and refugees, specifically women and motherhood, to illuminate the practice and develop innovative ways to approach and communicate mediated distant suffering from a peace-oriented approach. It uses a triangulation research design with a multimodal textual analysis and an in-depth semi-structured interview with two journalists involved in the project. This text intends to approach Instagram as an opportunity for innovative journalistic genres, while considering its challenges and constraints, and evaluate if peace-oriented news stories are able to connect with the audience while fostering empathy and solidarity.

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