Media, Mobilization, and Human Rights: Mediating Suffering

ISBN-13: 9781780320687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 264 str.

Tristan Anne Borer

Opis

What impact do mass media portrayals of atrocities have on activism? Media, Mobilization and Human Rights challenges the assumption that exposure to human rights violations in countries far away causes people to respond with activism to end atrocities. Turning a critical eye on existing scholarship, the authors argue that the reality is complex, and that there is nothing inherently positive or negative about exposure to the suffering of others. In exploring this, the book offers an array of case studies and examines a variety of media forms - from television and radio through to social networking - to 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