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 b media witnessing ÍNDICE: Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Why MediaWitnessing? Why Now? - PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA WITNESSING - 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 - PART II: PERFORMANCESOF MEDIA WITNESSING - Witnessing as a Field; T.Ashuri and A.Pinchevski - FromDanger 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-55149-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 12/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés