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This chapter examines the conditions of mediated visibility within which the different actors operated. These are institutional, normative, technological and commercial. The four conditions stress how various professional practices, working environments, technological developments, as well as commercial and institutional aims may facilitate or constrain the visibility of particular images and accounts. In consequence, the study of mediated visibility should not be limited to examining images and accounts. The latter should also be seen in relation to their sociocultural environment, as well as the institutions, expressions and practices within which visibility is sought, materialised and embedded. Significantly, the four conditions of visibility examined in the chapter highlight the restricted nature of the mediated visibility of dissent. The perceived power of the conventions of journalism, political agendas, technological limitations and the increasingly commercialised nature of news organisations encouraged and facilitated the visibility of accounts about the June Journeys that drew on spectacle and sensationalism, even when the protests were reported benevolently.
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Jiménez-Martínez, C. (2020). Conditions of Mediated Visibility: Routines, Norms, Technologies and Commercialism. In: Media and the Image of the Nation during Brazil’s 2013 Protests. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38238-4_6
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