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" Media witnessing : "
edited by Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski.
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BL
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1037512
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b791882
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Media witnessing : : testimony in the age of mass communication /\ edited by Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke [England] ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
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xii, 231 pages ;; 23 cm
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0230551491
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: 9780230551497
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Includes index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Why media witnessing? Why now? / Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski -- Part I: Perspectives on Media Witnessing -- Witnessing / John Durham Peters -- An afterword: torchlight red on sweaty faces / John Durham Peters -- Telling presences: witnessing, mass media, and the imagined lives of strangers / Paul Frosh -- Mundane witness / John Ellis -- Witness as a cultural form of communication historical roots, structural dynamics and current appearances / Günter Thomas -- Archaic witnessing and contemporary news media / Menahem Blondheim and Tamar Liebes -- Part II: Performances of Media Witnessing -- Witnessing as a field / Tamar Ashuri and Amit Pinchevski -- From danger to trauma: affective labor and the journalistic discourse of witnessing / Carrie Rentschler -- Scientific witness, testimony, and mediation / Joan Leach -- Witnessing trauma on film / Roy Brand.
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"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 'media witnessing', and how does it depend on journalists and media organizations?" "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 of mass communications."--Jacket.
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Mass media-- Audiences.
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Mass media-- Influence.
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Reporters and reporting.
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05.00 communication studies: general.
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05.30 mass communication and mass media: general.
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05.33 journalism.
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Mass media-- Audiences.
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Mass media-- Audiences.
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Mass media-- Influence.
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Mass media-- Influence.
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Reporters and reporting.
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Reporters and reporting.
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Getuigenissen (letterkunde)
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Journalistiek.
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Massamedia.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.23
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P94.M43 2009
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P94.F76 2009
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Frosh, Paul.
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Pinchevski, Amit,1971-
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