Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine War, multiple news medias around the world have introduced drones to continuously report this war from the perspectives of multi angles, which makes the reporting of Russia-Ukraine War War around the clock. These media agencies promotional strategy of a three-dimensional reporting, keeping drones simultaneously from high altitude with the control stations on the ground. As an audience, when watching news images from the ground and drone, we can clearly perceive the visual differences between them. However, the ground-based view of news coverage is limited, makes audience closely observe the details of war, which promotes threshold for understanding war for them. Compared to the ground news, drone news brings a greater visual impact to the audience, which in turn makes it easier for them to recognize the war and empathize with the people who suffered in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This article is about the study the relationship between images collected by drone news and audience’s cognition and empathy from the theories of media ecology and empathy, with mainly research cases from reporting news on the Russia-Ukraine war.
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