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‘Writing’ oneself into tragedy: visual user practices and spectatorship of the Alan Kurdi images on Instagram

Overview of attention for article published in Visual Communication, June 2019
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Title
‘Writing’ oneself into tragedy: visual user practices and spectatorship of the Alan Kurdi images on Instagram
Published in
Visual Communication, June 2019
DOI 10.1177/1470357219857118
Authors

Marloes Geboers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 18 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 33%
Researcher 3 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 6%
Student > Bachelor 1 6%
Lecturer 1 6%
Other 4 22%
Unknown 2 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 39%
Arts and Humanities 5 28%
Linguistics 2 11%
Computer Science 1 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 January 2020.
All research outputs
#15,563,090
of 25,837,817 outputs
Outputs from Visual Communication
#164
of 312 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#194,333
of 368,887 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Visual Communication
#7
of 7 outputs
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