{"id":899,"date":"2020-06-25T14:06:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T14:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2020-06-25T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T16:02:31","slug":"the-voice-of-reason-an-evaluation-of-social-medias-apocalyptic-rhetoric-in-times-of-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-voice-of-reason-an-evaluation-of-social-medias-apocalyptic-rhetoric-in-times-of-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of Reason: An Evaluation of Apocalyptic Rhetoric as it is Used in Times of Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This semiotic analysis seeks to understand the nature of apocalyptic rhetoric and how it is used during times of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the events surrounding the death of George Floyd. Through a visual analysis of Instagram posts with the hashtag of #BlackLivesMatter and #COVID-19, the author hopes to illuminate the nuances of rhetorical strategy and how crises can perpetuate and enhance the use of &#8220;doom and gloom&#8221; style language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semiotic analysis seeks to understand the nature of apocalyptic rhetoric and how it is used during times of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the events surrounding the death of George Floyd. Through a visual analysis of Instagram posts with the hashtag of #BlackLivesMatter and #COVID-19, the author hopes to illuminate the nuances &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-voice-of-reason-an-evaluation-of-social-medias-apocalyptic-rhetoric-in-times-of-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Voice of Reason: An Evaluation of Apocalyptic Rhetoric as it is Used in Times of Crisis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wkg4-ev","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carolhepburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}