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Media witnessingtestimony in the age of mass communication /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Media witnessingedited by Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski.
Reminder of title:	testimony in the age of mass communication /
other author:	Frosh, Paul.
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	x, 231 p. ;23 cm.
Subject:	Mass mediaInfluence.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230235762

Media witnessingtestimony in the age of mass communication /
Media witnessingtestimony in the age of mass communication /[electronic resource] :edited by Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - x, 231 p. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Witnessing: An Afterword: Torchlight Red on Sweaty Faces / J.D.Peters -- Telling Presences: Witnessing, Mass Media, and the Imagined Lives of Strangers / P.Frosh -- Mundane Witness / J.Ellis --Witness as a Cultural Form of Communication: Historical Roots, Structural Dynamics and Current Appearances / G.Thomas -- Archaic Witnessing and Contemporary News Media / M.Blondheim & T.Liebes -- Witnessing as a Field / T.Ashuri and A.Pinchevski -- From Danger to Trauma: Affective Labour and the Journalistic Discourse of Witnessing / C.Rentschler -- Scientific Witness,Testimony, and Mediation / J.Leach -- Witnesses or Bystanders: What Models are Appropriate in Understanding the Media Act of Witnessing? -- Witnessing Trauma on Film / R.Brand -- Index.

Do mass media turn us all into witnesses, and what might this mean? From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of far flung and often horrifying events, experienced by people whom we do not know personally, and mediated by a range of changing technologies. What is the truth status of such b1 smedia witnessing b2 s, and how does it depend on journalists and media organizations? What are its social, cultural and political ramifications,and what kind of moral demands can it make of audiences to act on behalf of suffering strangers? What are its connections to historical forms of witnessing in other fields: legal, religious and scientific? And howis it tied to technological transformations in media, transformations that bridge distances in space and time and can make ordinary people the sources of extraordinary footage?   These are the themes taken up by the contributors to this volume, among them some of the leading contemporary thinkers in communication and media studies. Together they not only make a crucial intervention in ongoing debates about media witnessing and the representation of strangers, but present original conceptualizations of the relationship between knowledge, discourse and technology in the era ofmass communications.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230235762Subjects--Topical Terms:

291241
Mass media
--Influence.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: P94 / .F76 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 302.23

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