Visual archives concerning Zika virus: images on Instagram as part of the constitution of an epidemic memory
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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v10i3.1175Keywords:
epidemic, Zika, images, social networks, Instagram, discourse analysis.Abstract
This article bases on a study aiming to analyze the images on Zika virus epidemic that aroused a great public interest and a great number of sharings from the device Instagram. The period of analysis covers November and December 2015, namely two months after researchers and medical authorities have proclaimed that the infection could be associated with cases of microcephaly diagnosed in newborns. This study used the ImageCloud, a tool developed by Laboratório de Estudos sobre Imagem e Cibercultura, da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Laboratory for studies of Image and Cyberculture, from Federal University of Espirito Santo), which allows us to visualize a lot of images in databases like, for example, onsocial networks. The theoretical base used to the analysis in question was the discourse analysis.
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