Media Witnessing - Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication (Paperback)

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? What are its social, cultural and political ramifications, and what kind of moral demands can it make of audiences to act on behalf of suffering strangers? What are its connections to historical forms of witnessing in other fields: legal, religious and scientific? And how is it tied to technological transformations in media, transformations that bridge distances in space and time and can make ordinary people the sources of extraordinary footage?
These are the themes taken up within this unique volume, now available for the first time in paperback with a special preface written by Professor Elihu Katz. The contributors are some of the leading contemporary thinkers in Communication and Media Studies, and together they not only make a crucial intervention in on-going 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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	2009
Editors:	P Frosh • A Pinchevski
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	231
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-30135-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
LSN:	0-230-30135-5
Barcode:	9780230301351

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