Análisis del fotoperiodismo virtual como herramienta de la Comunicación en desastres naturales. Caso de estudio: Terremoto en Manabí 2016

Abstract

The main objective of the present research is to demonstrate the virtual photojournalism contributions in natural disasters. The selected case study was the Manabí (Ecuador cost province) earthquake of april 16, 2016. This telluric movement was the first great magnitude natural event registered in the history of the country since social networks exist. The affected population, rescuers, people from other provinces and foreign people show their concern in social networks. For example the Instagram users (photo and video-sharing networking service), published and interacted with hundreds of photographs that portrayed the seism magnitude. The research consist in 67 photographs selected from the hashtag #terremotoecuador in Instagram. The pictures were classified in three universes: ´Buildings and goods damage´, ´reaction of affected people´ and ´action-reaction´. Which leads to wonder: Does the message contained in the photographs shared after the earthquake have journalistic content in its visual and context elements? Each photograph was interpreted according with netnography methodology and following iconographic and pre-iconographic analysis criteria.