What is it about?
The term "poverty porn" refers to the exploitative use of images, videos, or narratives that depict people living in poverty, often for the purpose of evoking an emotional response from the audience. Rhetorical studies on poverty porn involve the analysis of the language, visual elements, and persuasive strategies employed in the creation and consumption of such content.
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Why is it important?
Investigate how narratives about poverty are constructed, examining the language used to describe individuals or communities facing economic hardship. Assess the framing of the narrative and how it shapes perceptions.
Perspectives
Explore the emotional appeals employed in poverty porn. Analyze how the content aims to evoke sympathy, pity, guilt, or other emotional responses from the audience and how these emotions contribute to the persuasive impact.
Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj
MacEwan University
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This page is a summary of: Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages, May 2023, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003195276.
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