Media, Mobilization, and Human Rights: Mediating Suffering

ISBN-13: 9781780320670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 264 str.

Tristan Anne Borer

Opis

By examining a variety of media forms - from television and radio through to social networking - the interdisciplinary set of authors present radical new ways of thinking about the intersection of media portrayals of human suffering and activist responses to them.

Spis treści

Introduction: willful ignorance - news production, audience reception, and responses to suffering - Tristan Anne Borer 1. Humanitarian intervention in the 1990s: cultural remembrance and the reading of Somalia as Vietnam - David Kieran 2. Framing a rights ethos: artistic media and the dream of a culture without borders - Michael Galchinsky 3. How editors choose which human rights news to cover: a case study of Mexican newspapers - Ella McPherson 4. Framing strategies for economic and social rights in the United States - Dan Chong 5. 'Fresh, wet tears': shock media and human rights awareness campaigns - Tristan Anne Borer 6. Celebrity diplomats as mobilizers? Celebrities and activism in a hypermediated time - Andrew F. Cooper and Joseph F. Turcotte 7. Amplifying individual impact: social media's emerging role in activism - Sarah Kessler 8. The spectacle of suffering and humanitarian intervention in Somalia - Joel R. Pruce