Open AccessAnalysis of War and Peace Related Photographs in Afghanistan Print Media
Author(s) -
Shakeel Ahmad,
Syed Inam ur Rahman,
Mohammad Qaim Mahmoodi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of peace, development and communication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-7901
pISSN - 2663-7898
DOI - 10.36968/jpdc-v05-i01-04
Subject(s) - photojournalism , newspaper , negotiation , spanish civil war , visual media , period (music) , journalism , government (linguistics) , content analysis , media studies , political science , perspective (graphical) , law , history , sociology , social science , visual arts , photography , art , aesthetics , linguistics , philosophy
The researcher investigates the conflict in photographs of two Afghani newspapers dailyKabul Times and daily Weesa related to Afghanistan war in this research. The time periodassigned for the study was six months — from July l, 2018 to December 31, 2018. Thisquantitative content analysis of the photographs, on one hand, depicted the current war in thecountry; it helped to determine whether the photographs conform to the perspective of peaceand war journalism approaches, on the other. Such an approach seemed significant for knowhow the visual depictions of Afghanistan war were conducted and what appropriateconceptual and methodological tools existed in this regard. The finding showed that KabulTimes contributed more peace frames than war in pictures while covering war in the country.Weesa newspaper has given the more space to war frame instead of peace in its pictures.Overall, the results of the study suggest that peace framed pictures were comparatively morethan the war framed pictures, in terms of contents in particular. So, the study seems to be veryoptimistic about the outcome of the ongoing peace negotiations between Taliban and USAand this study recommends that the future research in the area must focus on the media visualframe of intra-negotiations between the government and Taliban.