ISBN:
9780230301351
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (242 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Media Witnessing : Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions concerning the truth status and broader implications of 'media witnessing'
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: Why Media Witnessing? Why Now?; Part I: Perspectives on Media Witnessing; 1 Witnessing; An Afterword: Torchlight Red on Sweaty Faces; 2 Telling Presences: Witnessing, Mass Media, and the Imagined Lives of Strangers; 3 Mundane Witness; 4 Witness as a Cultural Form of Communication: Historical Roots, Structural Dynamics, and Current Appearances; 5 Archaic Witnessing and Contemporary News Media; Part II: Performances of Media Witnessing; 6 Witnessing as a Field
Description / Table of Contents:
7 From Danger to Trauma: Affective Labor and the Journalistic Discourse of Witnessing8 Scientific Witness, Testimony, and Mediation; 9 Witnessing Trauma on Film; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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